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Carswell's room, perhaps they'll listen, and what is much more important give you their views on the matter. I," concluded Starmidge, drily, "should very much like to hear them!" The Earl made a wry face. "Oh, all right!" he answered. "If I must, I must. It's not a job that appeals to me, but very well. I'll go now."
The way in which that gifted man said these words made my heart dinle; but I hae lived to hear that the spirit of prophecy was assuredly in them: for, since the Revolution, Carswell's family has gone all to drift, and his house become a wastege; folk say, a new road that's talked o' between Inverkip and Greenock is to go through the very middle o't, and so mak it an awful monument of what awaits and will betide all those who have no mercy on their fellow-creatures, and would exalt themselves by abetting the strength of the godless and the wrength of the oppressors.
Now, I say you needn't say anything except to cook but I just want to take a look round Mrs. Carswell's room. Which is it?" The cook, who kept the kitchen door open so as not to lose anything of these delightful proceedings, came forward. Both accompanied Starmidge upstairs to show him the room he wanted.
"Does your lordship recognize that?" he asked. "My wife's jewel-casket, of course!" exclaimed the Earl. "Of course it is! Bless me! where did you find it?" "In the chimney, in Mrs. Carswell's bedroom," answered Starmidge, with a grimace at Polke. "It's empty!" The Earl took the empty casket from the detective's hand and looked at it, inside and outside, with doubt and wonder.
As we were thus walking sedately towards his dwelling, I observed and pointed out to him a lassie coming running towards us. It was his daughter; and when she came near, panting and out of breath with her haste she said "O, father ye manna gang hame; twa of Carswell's men hae been speering for you and they had swords and guns.
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