I read “Kidnapped” quite a few years ago. Not only Alan Breck Stewart but the Captain and the ship’s drunken brute of a quartermaster or whatever his title was, have dual personalities.
Even David Balfour’s miserly Uncle isn’t all bad. I liked all the Disney movies based on Stevenson’s books. Of course Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the ultimate dual personalities.
"There was a name your clerk mentioned," I went on: "Hoseason. That must be my man, I think: Hoseason, of the brig Covenant. Would you set your trust on him?"("the doctor" would be Archibald Cameron, brother to Locheil)"He didnae behave very well to you and Alan," said Mr. Stewart; "but my mind of the man in general is rather otherwise. If he had taken Alan on board his ship on an agreement, it's my notion he would have proved a just dealer. How say ye, Rob?"
"No more honest skipper in the trade than Eli," said the clerk. "I would lippen to Eli's word--ay, if it was the Chevalier, or Appin himsel'," he added.
"And it was him that brought the doctor, wasnae't?" asked the master.
"He was the very man," said the clerk.
"And I think he took the doctor back?" says Stewart.
"Ay, with his sporran full!" cried Robin. "And Eli kent of that!"
"Well, it seems it's hard to ken folk rightly," said I.
"That was just what I forgot when ye came in, Mr. Balfour!" says the Writer.