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Then he set sail; but there was little space between two bad deeds, for no sooner was he home again than he took the money Paul Borson had put in the bank for his daughter, and when no one saw him in the night-time he slipped away with a sound skin, the devil knows where he went to." "Were there no men in Lerwick at that time?"
To Bele he said nothing of this spiritual superiority, and yet it was obvious in his constant air of disapproval and dissent, in his lofty silence, his way of not being conscious of Bele's presence or of totally ignoring his remarks. "Liot Borson mocks the very heart of me," said Bele to Matilda one day, as he gloomily flung himself into the big chair she pushed toward him. "What said he, Bele?"
"So the curse begins," she said, "and this is but the first of it." "This is no hour to talk of curses, Mistress Sabiston," said the minister, sternly. "If you cannot bring pity and pardon to the dead, then fear to come into their presence." "I have nothing to fear from the dead. It is Liot Borson who is 'followed, not me; I did not murder Bele Trenby."
My hands are clear and clean from all blood-guiltiness." And he dropped the Word upon Karen's breast, and held up his hands in the sight of heaven and men. "You lie!" screamed Matilda. "God is my judge, not you," answered Liot. "It is the word of Liot Borson. Who believes it?" asked the minister. "Let those who do so take the hands he declares guiltless of blood."
Was not her father alive? Had she no brothers to stand between her and this son of the Evil One?" "When Nanna Borson took hold of Nicol Sinclair for a husband she thought she had taken hold of heaven; and he was not unkind to her until after the drowning of her kin. Then he took her money and traded with it to Holland, and lost it all there, and came back bare and empty-handed.
"The son of my father's cousin Liot?" "Yes. Liot Borson is dead, and here am I." "You are welcome, for you were to come. My father talked often of his cousin Liot. They are both gone away from this world." "I think they have found each other again. Who can tell?" "Among the great multitude that no man can number, it might not be easy." "If God willed it so?" "That would be sufficient.
"Yes; and the minister said last Sabbath that it was this which dissatisfied us with these habitations of clay, and made us lift our eyes to those eternal in the heavens." "Well, then, to come back to David," said Sally, "he is good, and able to marry. He has saved money, no doubt. Some young men spend their last bawbee, and just live between ebb and flow. That isn't David Borson.
At the wheel there was a man lashed, for the hull was seldom above water, and this man was David Borson. He was the only sailor left strong enough for the work, and he was at the last point of endurance. The icy gusts roared past him; the spray was like flying whiplashes; and it was pitiful to see David, with his bleeding hands on the wheel, stolidly shaking his head as the spray cut him.
And some of the young girls whispered to Karen, "When Liot Borson opens the door, then you will see the handsomest man in the islands." "I have seen fine men in Yell and Unst," answered Karen; "I think I shall see no handsomer ones in Lerwick. Is he fair or dark?"
Roy Hunish, a very old man, spoke for the rest when he said, "It seems to me, Liot Borson, that the Lord has not sent you to Stornoway; he is against the journey." And Liot answered sadly: "He is against all I desire." When they had been warmed and fed and rested in one of the nearest cottages, Liot took David in his arms and went back to his old hut.
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