"Trusting in the merits of Christ, I am ready. I have lived these many years in daily communion with him. But how is it with you? Think of that. Take heed to your ways lest ye die in your sins. You go about seeking to slay the Lord's chosen. What will you say when their blood is required at your hands? Let me entreat you to turn from your evil ways and seek forgiveness; for no sins are so great that the blood of Christ cannot atone for them."
"Haud your ranting tongue!" shouted the leader.
But lest the words of the man of God should unnerve his men, he turned to them and gave his orders.
"Ye hae listened to this fulishness long enough. Gang to your wark."
But not one of the men moved.
"Ye ken weel what ye came here for," he continued. "Wha will lay low the enemy of his country and his king?"
On hearing this the aged man made his defence.
"Why should I be accounted an enemy of the king? He who is not true to the King of kings cannot be true to an earthly king. I hold that you are not true to him yourselves, since you encourage him to foul his hands with the blood of the saints."
"Shoot him!" cried the leader.