your majesty, I would.”
“Then I need have no fear but the troops will respond if I call on them?”
“None in the least, your majesty.”
“Well, I am glad to hear that, Sir Donald, and, meanwhile, I can think of the project without any doubt regarding my army.”
When the cobbler came to the castle with Sir David, the king led the way to one of his small private rooms, and there sketched out the argument on both sides of the question with great impartiality.
“Now, Flemming,” he said, at the conclusion, “what is there to do?”
For a long time the shoemaker made no reply; then he scratched his head in perplexed fashion. At last he said:
“It gets beyond me, your majesty. Thieving is not right unless it’s done under cover of law, which these reiving lads to the South seem to take small account of. On the other hand, to destroy them root and branch may be leaving Scotland naked to her enemy. I admit I’m fairly in a corner.”
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