CHAPTER X.
THE COMMISSIONER OF THE CONVENTION.
At Kelso Harry procured changes of garments, attiring himself as a Lowland farmer, and his companions as two drovers.

They were, as before, mounted; but the costume of English farmers could no longer have been supported by any plausible story.

They learned that upon the direct road north they should find many bodies of Scotch troops, and therefore made for the coast.

Two days' riding brought them to the little port of Ayton.
After taking their supper in the common room of the hostelry, there was a stir outside, and three men, attired as Puritan preachers, entered the room.

Mine host received them with courtesy, but with none of the eager welcome usually displayed to guests; for these gentry, although feared--for their power was very great at the time--were by no means loved, and their orders at a hostelry were not likely to swell the purse of the host.