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He might have told you, too, that upon that January morning he was starting with only one passenger on board an elderly woman who was leaving her home in the south of the island to go and see a doctor at Lerwick, as she had been ill for some months. The two men who formed the crew of the Columbine returned the same day as they had set sail, in an open boat belonging to their vessel.
The favourable wind still continued, and on the 10th of October they anchored in Brassa Sound, off Lerwick, where they enjoyed their first sight of civilised man, after an absence of seven and twenty months. They were received by the people of Lerwick in the warmest manner.
Meanwhile, as if to complete the circle of pain with which poor Catherine's life was compassed, it began to be plain to her that, in spite of the hard and mocking tone Rose generally adopted with regard to him, Edward Langham was constantly at the house in Lerwick Gardens, and that it was impossible he should be there so much unless in some way or other Rose encouraged it.
I thought Boris was to remain here until the naval party returned from Shetland?" "The lieutenant in command thought Boris could help the enlisting, for in Lerwick Boris has many friends. Thou knows my sisters Anna and Nenie live in Lerwick. Boris was fain to go and see them." "But they will return here when their business is finished in Lerwick?"
My wrist was still painful when I tried to use it; but the far more serious injury presented by the re-opened wound was no longer a subject of anxiety to myself or to any one about me. I was sufficiently restored to be capable of making the journey to Lerwick, if I rested for one night at a farm half-way between the town and Mr. Dunross's house.
Several large black high-sided ships lay at anchor, with numerous boats hanging to the davits, and mostly barque-rigged. They were whalers, belonging to Hull and other English and Scotch ports, on their way to Baffin Bay, or the shores of Greenland. Archy found a boat just about to cross the sound to Lerwick, and, asking for a passage, he jumped in.
Sir James's reply contained these words only: "The letter inclosed tells its own sad story, without help from me. I cannot grieve for her; but I can feel sorry for you." The letter thus described was addressed to Sir James by the doctor at Lerwick. I have only received your letter to-day.
Nothing with her ever passed through any changing crucible of thought. It required no planning to elude her. Her mind was like a stretch of wet sand, on which all impressions are equally easy to make and equally fugitive. He liked them all, she supposed, in spite of the comparative scantiness of his later visits to Lerwick Gardens, or he would not have come out of his way to see them.
So he went back to Lerwick, feeling with every step he took that the task Matilda had set him would have to be accomplished. The humiliation would indeed be great, but if by confession he could ward off punishment from Nanna he must accept the alternative. Himself he took not into consideration.
When they brought your luggage here from the vessel at Lerwick, you were particularly anxious about the safety of your traveling writing-desk the desk there on the table. Is there anything very valuable in it?" "It contains my money, and other things that I prize far more highly my mother's letters, and some family relics which I should be very sorry to lose.
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