"What curse?"
"Ah, that has brought the wind against the mist! I was thinking so!"
"What curse?"
"You are the man that was the Sin-Eater over there?"
"Ay."
"The man Macallum?"
"Ay."
"Strange it is, but three days ago I saw you in Tobermory, and heard you give your name as Neil Ross to an Iona man that was there."
"Well?"
"Oh, sure, it is nothing to me. But they say the Sin-Eater should not be a man with a hidden lump in his pack."[14]