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"Wae's me, for I've lost that, horse and all." But I had a word to say to that. "The horse will be sleeping in the stable," said I, "and I will be the man that's put him there," and told him about the strange horse. "Yon crater, Dol Beag, didna just dee," says he after a while. "Nor a drop out of his lug," says I, "if ye will be overlooking a crooked back. I sent ye that word with the heathen."
"Man!" he greeted, "ye're looking hipped." Then, alluding to a heifer of Timmins's which had bloated on marsh-grass the day before, he added, "The beastie didna die?" Assured that it was only a wife that Timmins lacked, he sighed relief. "Ah, weel, that's no so bad; they come cheaper. But tell us o't"
"And now, my lad," said Flett, blowing a hot potato that he held in his horny hand, "what brings ye all the way to Kirkwall on a cold day like this? Ye didna tell us that." "Well, captain," I said, looking down at my platter and wondering how I could eat its plentiful contents, hungry though I was, "I just sauntered along to see if I could get some work.
All the past was past; they had to begin a life set to new methods and motives: "and the sooner the better," thought Maggie, "if fayther were here, he wad say that." "Davie?" "Weel?" "Is the tea gude? And the fish, and the cake?" "Ay, they're gude. I didna think I was sae hungry. I'm maist 'shamed to enjoy them sae hearty."
"Well," he said, still scratching his head, "this is a queer sort o' business, an' a turn o' matters I didna look for ava; but I hae seen waur things come o' better beginnins. To tell ye a truth, sir," continued the perplexed yeoman, "I'm no oot o' the need o' the siller. But, if ye'll just stop a minute, if ye please, till I speak to the guidwife on the subject."
"It's no for mysell, sir; but it threatens an awfu' night; and Sir Arthur, and Miss Wardour, poor thing" "Why, man, they must have met the carriage at the head of the loaning, or thereabouts; they must be home long ago." "Na, sir; they didna gang the road by the turnpike to meet the carriage, they gaed by the sands." The word operated like electricity on Oldbuck.
Sall, ye 're no' feared," as Carmichael, thirsting for action, swung it up unaided; and then, catching sight of the merest wisp of white, "A' didna see ye were a minister, an' the word cam oot sudden."
"Whar hae ye been, man, and what is this ye hae in your airms?" said Widow Willison to Geordie, when he went in. "It's a wee bit birdie I fand in a nest amang the hedges o' Warriston," said Geordie. "Its mither didna seem to care aboot it, and I hae brought it hame wi' me. Gie't a pickle crowdie, puir thing."
Ay, ye may weep she was a sightly creature to see to but think ye, if I didna mourn her then, that I can mourn her now? Na, na, I left Teresa wi' the dead corpse and new-born babe, till I gaed up to take the Countess's commands what was to be done. Late as it was, I ca'd her up, and she gar'd me ca' up your brother" "My brother?"
But little M'Adam was looking at the wet coat now lying in a wet bundle at his feet. "Curse ye," he repeated softly. "Curse ye ye heard him. Wullie?" A bitter smile crept across his face. He looked again at the picture now lying crushed in his hand. "Ye canna say I didna try; ye canna ask me to agin," he muttered, and slipped it into his pocket.
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