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'The Point of Warroch? said Hatteraick, his countenance again falling; 'what, in the cave, I suppose? I would rather it were anywhere else; es spuckt da: they say for certain that he walks. But, donner and blitzen! I never shunned him alive, and I won't shun him dead. Strafe mich helle! it shall never be said Dirk Hatteraick feared either dog or devil! So I am to wait there till I see you?
The devil can scarce save Dirk Hatteraick from being hanged for a murderer and kidnapper if the younker of Ellangowan should settle in this country, and if the gallant Captain chances to be caught here reestablishing his fair trade! And I won't say but, as peace is now so much talked of, their High Mightinesses may not hand him over to oblige their new allies, even if he remained in faderland.
"Ay, carry him to Flushing," said the captain, "or to America, or to Jericho?" "Psha! Wherever you have a mind." "Ay, or pitch him overboard?" "Nay, I advise no violence." "Nein, nein! You leave that to me Sturm-wetter; I know you of old. But, hark ye, what am I, Dirk Hatteraick, to be the better for this?"
It was he who had sent the postchaise to Portanferry in consequence of a letter he had received from Meg Merrilies; it was she who had sent back the soldiers so opportunely, and through her the next day Dirk Hatteraick was captured; but, unhappily, she was killed by that ruffian at the moment of the fulfilment of her hopes for the family of Ellangowan.
Bide behind it for a gliff till I say, "The hour and the man are baith come"; then rin in on him, take his arms, and bind him till the blood burst frae his finger nails. 'I will, by my soul, said Henry, 'if he is the man I suppose Jansen? 'Ay, Jansen, Hatteraick, and twenty mair names are his. 'Dinmont, you must stand by me now, said Bertram, 'for this fellow is a devil.
"And now," said Glossin to himself, "to find Dirk Hatteraick and his people, to get the guard sent off from the Custom-house, and then for the grand cast of the dice. Everything must depend upon speed. How lucky that Mannering has betaken himself to Edinburgh!
I understand the law, Captain Hatteraick, and I'll take it upon me, simple Gilbert Glossin of Ellangowan, justice of peace for the county of , to refuse his bail, if he should offer the best in the country, until he is brought up for a second examination; now where d'ye think I'll incarcerate him? 'Hagel and wetter! what do I care? 'Stay, my friend; you do care a great deal.
And it was not improbable that to such brutal tempers, rendered desperate by their own circumstances, even the murder of the child, against whose father, as having become suddenly active in the prosecution of smugglers, Hatteraick was known to have uttered deep threats, would not appear a very heinous crime.
He therefore repressed his indignation, and awaited what should pass between the ruffian and his gipsy guide. 'And how are ye now? said the harsh and discordant tones of his female attendant. Said I not, it would come upon you ay, and in this very cave, where ye harboured after the deed? 'Wetter and sturm, ye hag! replied Hatteraick, 'keep your deyvil's matins till they're wanted.
When she saw them removing Hatteraick, in order to clear the room and leave the surgeon to his operations, she called out aloud, raising herself at the same time upon the couch, 'Dirk Hatteraick, you and I will never meet again until we are before the judgment-seat; will ye own to what I have said, or will you dare deny it? He turned his hardened brow upon her, with a look of dumb and inflexible defiance.
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