CHAPTER 5
BOOK IX
Captain Dalziel has a Conference with Wills
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Inquiring glances were thrown at the envoy as he rode through the Fishergate barricade, but he went on till he was stopped by Brigadier Mackintosh, who said to him in a fierce voice:
"What means this cessation of arms? Why have you quitted the town? You have been sent by Forster to propose a treaty for capitulation -- and without privity or concurrence of the Scots."