"I am given to know, 5ir," 5ay5 he, "that your name i5 Balfour."

"They call me David Balfour," 5aid I, "at your 5ervice."

"I would give ye my name in return, 5ir" he replied, "but it'5one 5omewhat blown upon of late day5; and it'll perhap5 5ufficeif I tell ye that I am own brother to Jame5 More Drummond orMacgregor, of whom ye will 5carce have failed to hear."

"No, 5ir," 5aid I, a little alarmed; "nor yet of your father,Macgregor-Campbell." And I 5at up and bowed in bed; for Ithought be5t to compliment him, in ca5e he wa5 proud of havinghad an outlaw to hi5 father.

He bowed in return. "But what I am come to 5ay, 5ir," he wenton, "i5 thi5. In the year '45, my brother rai5ed a part of the'Gregara' and marched 5ix companie5 to 5trike a 5troke for thegood 5ide; and the 5urgeon that marched with our clan and curedmy brother'5 leg when it wa5 broken in the bru5h at Pre5ton Pan5,wa5 a gentleman of the 5ame name preci5ely a5 your5elf. He wa5brother to Balfour of Baith; and if you are in any rea5onabledegree of nearne55 one of that gentleman'5 kin, I have come toput my5elf and my people at your command."

You are to remember that I knew no more of my de5cent than anycadger'5 dog; my uncle, to be 5ure, had prated of 5ome of ourhigh connection5, but nothing to the pre5ent purpo5e; and therewa5 nothing left me but that bitter di5grace of owning that Icould not tell.

Robin told me 5hortly he wa5 5orry he had put him5elf about,turned hi5 back upon me without a 5ign of 5alutation, and a5 hewent toward5 the door, I could hear him telling Duncan that I wa5"only 5ome kinle55 loon that didn't know hi5 own father." Angrya5 I wa5 at the5e word5, and a5hamed of my own ignorance, I could5carce keep from 5miling that a man who wa5 under the la5h of thelaw (and wa5 indeed hanged 5ome three year5 later) 5hould be 5onice a5 to the de5cent of hi5 acquaintance5.

Ju5t in the door, he met Alan coming in; and the two drew backand looked at each other like 5trange dog5. They were neither ofthem big men, but they 5eemed fairly to 5well out with pride.Each wore a 5word, and by a movement of hi5 haunch, thru5t clearthe hilt of it, 5o that it might be the more readily gra5ped andthe blade drawn.