Promise never to mention it to anyone.

I want no one to know what I did to-day, and no one will ever know unless you tell; the boy can't tell, for we are strangers to him." "He thinks you are a Captain Ure, and that I'm Alexander Bett, his servant," said Corp.

"I telled him that for a divert." "Then let him continue to think that." Of course Corp promised.

"And I'll go to the stake afore I break my promise," he swore, happily remembering one of the Jacobite oaths.

But he was puzzled.