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Grace Drever had some instructions to give me regarding the taking away of her cat, and when I left her my sister Jessie and Captain Gordon were already walking together down the brae. I soon overtook them. Jessie was questioning the captain about his ship.
I fished upstream as I think a true angler should do for though, as Andrew Drever held, fishing downward was the easier method of the two, especially with the wind at his back, yet I preferred my own way, just as I preferred fishing with artificial fly to fishing with bait, merely because it was more difficult and more surely exercised my skill.
Tom Kinlay was thereupon taken by Macfarlane to his prison cell to await the delivery of the formal charge of murder. I was taking up my gun and preparing to leave when Andrew Drever requested me to remain in order to be present at the consideration of a further question that had arisen out of his investigations of the case. Mr.
Drever, and he will believe it and understand." "Very good," said the skipper, and then he left me. He had not gone out many minutes before Jimmy Macfarlane came into the apartment and made a fire in the grate, and brought me water to wash myself, and a good breakfast of coffee and fried bacon.
A person finding treasure of this sort can have only a third part of its value. Is that not so, Mr. Gordon?" "Yes," said the captain, "I fancy you're right, Mr. Drever. Of course you refer to the law of treasure trove?" "Exactly," agreed the master. Then turning to me, he continued: "You see, Halcro, the Crown will claim a share of it, and the laird gets another part.
"Father got them from one of the captains. I'd like if you'd keep some of them, Mr. Drever;" and I offered him three of the best. "Oh no, no!" he exclaimed, "I could not think of taking them from you. I didn't mean that. "But maybe, well, maybe I might just have the loan of one of them to try this afternoon. I'm going away to Kirbister to see if I can catch a few sea trout."
Drever lay Jarl Haffling's talisman; also, to my surprise, I observed the wooden box that I had seen in the cave, and the little chest that I had taken from the chart room of the Pilgrim; on the lid of the latter was the log book of that ill-fated ship. What these relics of the Pilgrim could possibly have to do with the murder of Colin Lothian I was at a loss to know.
"Where did I get it?" he inquired, his face turning as red as the ruby itself. "You got it from the old viking's helmet," I replied, "for I saw you put the thing in your pocket, though you did deny that you had it that day over at Skaill. But ye'll see what Mr. Drever will say to your selling what didna rightly belong to you." "I carena that for Mr. Drever," he said, snapping his fingers.
Now, if you'll come home with me and have a taste of these trout " "Oh, thanks, thanks, most happy!" said the captain. Now this, I thought, was a very graceful invitation for Andrew Drever to give to a stranger who had only a few moments before implied that his mother was a witch.
Drever, "I have no objections to offer;" and he looked out through the window as though to satisfy himself that the weather was suitable for an afternoon's fishing. Mr. Duke then went into the inner room to have a gossip with old Grace Drever. The schoolmaster pronounced the benediction, and we flocked noisily outside. As I was leaving with Robbie Rosson, Mr. Drever called me back.
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