"From the galley of Nicolas de Villegaignon?"
"Yes, my lords."
"He hath come from France, then!" said Kilmaurs sternly.
"It would seem so."
"Seem! Speak to the point," continued the fiery heir of Glencairn, "or, by the horns of Mahoun! we will burn thy house to the groundstone. It is so!"
"Yes—my lords,—yes."
"Speak out, cullionly knave," thundersd the Lord Kilmaurs, the long scar on whose visage became purple as his anger increased; "his name——"
"I ken it not."
"How—ye ken it not?"
"No."