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He had also set inquiries on foot in the track of Caley's antecedents, and had discovered more than the acquaintance between her and Mrs Catanach. Also he had arranged that Hodges, the man who had lost his leg through his cruelty to Kelpie, should leave for Duff Harbour as soon as possible after his discharge from the hospital.
Malcolm looked about, and replied, pressing Duncan's arm, and speaking in a low voice, far less audible than his whisper, "There's naebody near, daddy naebody but the howdie wife." "What howdie wife do you mean, Malcolm?" "Hoot! Mistress Catanach, ye ken. Dinna lat her hear ye." "I had a feeshion, Malcolm one moment, and no more; ta darkness closed arount it: I saw a ped, Malcolm, and "
Therefore, through Mr Soutar's London agent, to whom he sent up Davy, and whom he brought acquainted with Merton, and his former landlady at the curiosity shop, he had discovered a good deal about Mrs Catanach from her London associates, among them the herb doctor, and his little boy who had watched Davy, and he had now almost completed an outline of evidence, which, grounded on that of Rose, might be used against Mrs Catanach at any moment.
She walked up to him with confidence. "You shall have an explanation, my lord," she said, "such as shall be my full quittance for intrusion even at this untimely hour of the night." "Say on then," returned his lordship. "Send that boy away then, my lord." "I prefer having him stay," said the marquis. "Not a word shall cross my lips till he's gone," persisted Mrs Catanach. "I know him too well!
"I houp, sir," said the latter, "it'll be nae sort o' a celestial Mistress Catanach 'at 'll be waiting for me o' the ither side; nor yet for my puir daddy, wha cud ill bide bein' wamled aboot upo' her knee." Mr Graham laughed outright. "If there be one to act the nurse," he answered, "I presume there will be one to take the mother's part too."
Never had lover of old books half the delight in fitting together a rare volume from scattered portions picked up in his travels, than Mrs Catanach found in vitalizing stray remarks, arranging odds and ends of news, and cementing the many fragments, with the help of the babblings of gossip, into a plausible whole; intellectually considered, her special pursuit was inasmuch the nobler as the faculties it brought into exercise were more delicate and various; and if her devotion to the minutia of biography had no high end in view, it never caused her to lose sight of what ends she had, by involving her in opinions, prejudices, or disputes: however she might break out at times, her general policy was to avoid quarrelling.
Rounding a corner, they came upon Mrs Catanach standing at a neighbour's door, gazing out upon nothing, as was her wont at times, but talking to some one in the house behind her. Miss Horn turned her head aside as she passed. A look of low, malicious, half triumphant cunning lightened across the puffy face of the howdy.
The marquis burst out laughing, and stepped into the room with a rough joke. Malcolm remained in the doorway. "My lord," said Mrs Catanach, gathering herself together, and rising little the worse, save in temper, for the treatment he had commented upon, "I have a word for your lordship's own ear." "Your right to be there does stand in need of explanation," said the marquis.
"Your lordship was never in the way of being frightened at a woman," said Mrs Catanach, with an ugly expression of insinuation. The marquis shrugged his shoulders. "That depends," he said. Then turning to Malcolm, "Go along," he added; "only keep within call. I may want you."
The tumult of Celtic altercation ceased. The piper drew himself up to his full height, and stood silent. Mrs Catanach, red as fire with exertion and wrath, turned ashy pale. The marquis cast on her a searching and significant look. "See here, my lord," said Malcolm. Candle in hand, his lordship approached the bed.
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