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Updated: June 11, 2025
Night was approaching what to do she did not know. She had a plain, worn, old gold ring on her finger; she took it off, offered it to the ferry-master, who would not take it, though she told him she found her money gone and would redeem it next day. She went back in the ladies' room and told it to the Lord, beseeching his assistance.
The horse sent by Douglas awaited me, but the ferry-master had been prohibited from carrying passengers across the firth, and I could not take the horse in a small boat. In truth, I was in great alarm lest I should be unable to cross, but I walked up the Tay a short distance, and found a fisherman, who agreed to take me over in his frail craft.
The fury of my onset frightened even the sergeant, who saw, perhaps, that he had gone too far, and he called two policemen to disarm and conduct me out of the precinct anywhere so that he got rid of me. They marched me to the nearest ferry and turned me loose. The ferry-master halted me.
"Possibly you may suppose this house to be an inn because it lies at the extreme end of the town?" "I think nothing of the sort, my pretty mistress. I know that here dwells Master Zudár, the worthy ferry-master." "Ferry-master?" "Yes, ferry-master! Does he not transport men from this world to the next?" "How come you to know the master?" "I have never seen him, yet I know him well for all that.
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