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Follow the path over the moor, and the sheep-track up the hill. The first house you come to after that is the inn. You understand!" He nodded his head, with a sullen frown, and took his pipe out of his pocket again. "Let it alone this time," he said, meeting her eye. "My mind's upset. When a man's mind's upset, a man can't smoke. What's the name of the place?" "Craig Fernie."
Never had his lips been more effectually sealed than at this moment when his whole future depended on Sir Patrick's discovering the part that he had played in past events at Craig Fernie. "Yes! yes!" resumed Sir Patrick, impatiently. "Blanche's distress is intelligible enough. But here is my niece apparently answerable for this unhappy woman's disappearance.
The floors being laid, the beacon now assumed the appearance of a habitation. The Smeaton was at her moorings, with the Fernie praam-boat astern, for which she was laying down moorings, and the tender being also at her station, the Bell Rock had again put on its former busy aspect.
You now know as much as I did when I arrived at Craig Fernie and you are, therefore, in a position to appreciate the value of my discoveries at the inn. Do you understand every thing, so far?" "Perfectly!" "Very good. I drove up to the inn; and behold me closeted with Mrs. Inchbare in her own private parlor!
I was at Craig Fernie, remember, when Blanche came there! She has been telling me all that happened, poor darling, in the firm persuasion that I was miles off at the time. I swear I couldn't look her in the face! What would she think of me, if she knew the truth? Pray be careful! pray be careful!" Geoffrey's patience began to fail him.
Sixthly, that the one way of obtaining any enlightenment on this point, and on all the other points involved in mystery, was to go to Craig Fernie, and consult Mrs. Inchbare's experience during the period of Anne's residence at the inn. Sir Patrick's apology for keeping all this a secret from his niece followed.
While you push on to the cottage, I must drop behind, and say a word to a person who is staying at the inn." He had quieted Lady Lundie he had even quieted Blanche. But it was evidently on the condition that he was to go to Craig Fernie in their places, and to see Anne Silvester himself. Without a word more of explanation he mounted his horse, and led the way out.
The shooting-party left Windygates. "YE'LL just permit me to remind ye again, young leddy, that the hottle's full exceptin' only this settin'-room, and the bedchamber yonder belonging to it." So spoke "Mistress Inchbare," landlady of the Craig Fernie Inn, to Anne Silvester, standing in the parlor, purse in hand, and offering the price of the two rooms before she claimed permission to occupy them.
"About you. I know where you went on the evening of my lawn-party at Windygates you went to Craig Fernie." "Good Heavens! how did you find out ?" "I know whom you went to meet Miss Silvester. I know what is said of you and of her you are man and wife." "Hush! don't speak so loud. Somebody may hear you!" "What does it matter if they do? I am the only person whom you have kept out of the secret.
I have told you that Arnold Brinkworth was privately at Craig Fernie, with Miss Silvester, in the acknowledged character of her husband when we supposed him to be visiting the estate left him by his aunt. You refuse to believe it and I am about to put it to the proof. Is it your interest or is it not, to know whether this man deserves the blind belief that you place in him?"
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