A murmur stirred the assemblage at the Factor's rude remark, but they dared not add protest to their surprises. Dunvegan of course, had expected it from the first.
"Who stands as sponsor for this infant?" asked the priest.
Macleod swung himself half round and nodded to Dunvegan. Bruce rose to his feet, seeing with surprise that Gaspard, the Fool, had also raised himself up by jumping upon the seat.
"Who stands sponsor?"
"I," squealed the idiot. "Also, he can have my name, for if the truth came out, it is as good as anyone's and——"
He got no farther for old Pierre Lazard pulled the foolish dwarf off his perch before the angry Factor could strike him and pushed him unceremoniously to the door amid the suppressed chuckles of the assembly.
"Again, who stands sponsor?" inquired the unruffled Father Brochet.
"I do," spoke Dunvegan.
"Do you, Charles Ian Macleod, renounce the devil, his angels and all their evil works?"
"I do," Dunvegan, as sponsor, replied.