’It is well done of you, Launcelot. The sheep herding on Kirrieoch has given you an eye for other things,’ he said. And at that I think the Earl gave me a little more consideration, though all that he said was no more than, ’Well, Tutor, and what do you advise?’ ’I think,’ said the Tutor, ’that you and the younger men had best take Launcelot’s advice, and conceal yourselves in the pend of the yett-house, with picks and, perhaps, a mickle tree for a battering-ram, while I and a trumpeter lad summon Kelwood himself to surrender. In that clump of trees over there we shall be out of reach of their matchlocks.’ So the Earl took the advice, and in a little we were in the black trough of the pend, with an iron-bolted door in front and the rough, unhewn stones of the wall on either side of us. Then the Tutor’s trumpet blew one rousing blast and then another, till we could hear the stir of men roused out of their sleep in the tower above us. But we ourselves held our breaths and keeped very quiet. Once more the trumpet blew from the clump of oak trees over against the main gate. ’Who may ye be that blaws horns in the Kelwood without asking leave of me?’ cried a voice from the narrow window in the wall above us. And my master, Sir Thomas, answered him from the coppice,— ’It is I, Kennedy of Culzean, that come from your liege lord to demand the treasure that is his, stolen from his house by his false servant and now reset by you, Laird Currie of Kelwood.’ The Laird laughed contumeliously from his turret window. ’An’ the Earl wants his treasure, let him come and fetch it,’ said he. At which answer it was all that we could do to keep the Earl quiet. He was for setting the squared tree to the door at once. ’Kelwood,’ again we heard the voice of Sir Thomas, ’I ken well who has deceived you in this matter. Listen to no glosing words. No man can strive with the Kennedy and prosper in all these lands ’twixt Clyde and Solway.’ ’Which Kennedy?’ cried Kelwood, from his window, fleeringly. And this set the Earl more bitterly against him than ever, for it was as much as to say that the Bargany Kennedies were equal in power and place to his own house of Cassillis.