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It was only a question of a few weeks; he might ask Messrs. Scriven and Coles; they would tell him the security was quite safe. He certainly might ask Messrs. Scriven and Coles they happened to be his father's solicitors; but it hardly seemed to touch the point.
'But suppose a strong party came against him from the Low Country, would not your Chief defend him? 'Na, he would not ware the spark of a flint for him if they came with the law. 'And what must Donald do, then? 'He behoved to rid this country of himsell, and fall back, it may be, over the mount upon Letter Scriven. 'And if he were pursued to that place?
But we will be even with him before long, and when we do catch him, we'll pay him off, that's all. Well I'm glad you escaped, that I am; but come below, and let us hear the whole story." In this way the kind-hearted fellow ran on. Having been welcomed by Growl, Scriven, and the rest of my shipmates, I went to report myself to my uncle, who was in his cabin.
How blue it shines toward the light! Blue as lupin or larkspur, or cornflower aye, and even so blue art thou, my scriven, to think how far the written page falls short of the bright ecstasy of thy dream! In the bottle, what magnificence of unpenned stuff lies cool and liquid: what fluency of essay, what fonts of song.
'But suppose a strong party came against him from the Low Country, would not your Chief defend him? 'Na, he would not ware the spark of a flint for him if they came with the law. 'And what must Donald do, then? 'He behoved to rid this country of himsell, and fall back, it may be, over the mount upon Letter Scriven. 'And if he were pursued to that place?
'But suppose a strong party came against him from the Low Country, would not your Chief defend him? 'Na, he would not ware the spark of a flint for him if they came with the law. 'And what must Donald do, then? 'He behoved to rid this country of himsell, and fall back, it may be, over the mount upon Letter Scriven. 'And if he were pursued to that place?
"It's his father" Scriven had been going to say. What a plant! Exactly! Oh! neat! Old Pillin had made the settlement direct; and the solicitors were in the dark; that disposed of his difficulty about them. No money had passed between old Pillin and old Heythorp not a penny. Oh! neat! But not neat enough for Charles Ventnor, who had that nose for rats.
Richardson and Scriven, with a part of Mayham's horse, were dispatched with orders to throw themselves in front of the British, and engage them until he could come up. This order was gallantly executed. They encountered the enemy's advance near the muster-house of St. Thomas, charged them vigorously, and succeeded in putting them to flight, with some slaughter. Capt.
Scrivens young Pillin had said! But Crow & Donkin, not Scriven & Coles, were old Heythorp's solicitors. What could that mean, save that the old man wanted to cover the tracks of a secret commission, and had handled the matter through solicitors who did not know the state of his affairs! But why Pillin's solicitors? With this sale just going through, it must look deuced fishy to them too.
Feeling, from experience, that any really delicate matter would only be entrusted to the most responsible member of the firm, he had asked to see Scriven himself, and just as he had taken his hat to go, he said casually: "By the way, you do some business for old Mr. Heythorp, don't you?" Scriven, raising his eyebrows a little, murmured: "Er no," in exactly the tone Mr.
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