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Hiking
Tough grrrls
Highlands
Mastermind
Scottish landscape term, like "glen" or "burn"
Damsel in distress
Lawyers
Hunting
Scholarly side project
One foot in the afterlife, death around the corner
"rueful"
Visiting a country house
Use of "black" as an intensifier, as in "black afraid"
Boy, do I like fishing
He's an important guy in the government
Peebles or Upper Tweed
Mountain Climbing
a Border location other than Peebles or Tweed
"gillie"
Espionage
Poe influence
My God! he's changed since I saw him last
"Hey! Weren't you in another Buchan book?"
Another disguise