'Your very good health.' Then he smacked his lips, and had several cupfuls of water from the spring.
'You will haf come from Achranich way, maybe ?' he said in his soft sing-song, having at last found his breath.
'Just so.

Fine weather for the birds, if there was anybody to shoot them.' 'Ah, no.

There will be few shots fired today, for there are no gentlemen left in Morvern.

But I wass asking you, if you come from Achranich, if you haf seen anybody on the road.' From his pocket he extricated a brown envelope and a bulky telegraph form.

'Will you read it, sir, for I haf forgot my spectacles ?' It contained a description of one Brand, a South African and a suspected character, whom the police were warned to stop and return to Oban.