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Huntingtower

CHAPTER IV
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What would you do yourself ?" "If I were you," came the emphatic reply, "I would tak' the first train hame the morn, and when I got hame I wad bide there.

Ye're a dacent body, but ye're no' the kind to be traivellin' the roads." "And if you were me ?' Heritage asked with his queer crooked smile.
"If I was young and yauld like you I wad gang into the Hoose, and I wadna rest till I had riddled oot the truith and jyled every scoondrel about the place.

If ye dinna gang, 'faith I'll kilt my coats and gang mysel'.

I havena served the Kennedys for forty year no' to hae the honour o' the Hoose at my hert....

Ye've speired my advice, sirs, and ye've gotten it.


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