So I am not so anxious concerning his immediate safety as about what may follow afterwards, for these troubles are only beginning.

But all this is nothing to you, Mr.Waverley, only I thought you would be glad to learn that my father has escaped, in case you happen to have heard that he was in danger.
The day after my father went off there came a party of soldiers to Tully-Veolan, and behaved very rudely to Bailie Macwheeble; but the officer was very civil to me, only said his duty obliged him to search for arms and papers.

My father had provided against this by taking away all the arms except the old useless things which hung in the hall, and he had put all his papers out of the way.

But O! Mr.Waverley, how shall I tell you, that they made strict inquiry after you, and asked when you had been at Tully-Veolan, and where you now were.

The officer is gone back with his party, but a non-commissioned officer and four men remain as a sort of garrison in the house.