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Turn out the boys, Jake; you know the place. I want three horses saddled, quick." "Four," said Flora, firmly. "I'm coming." Grant did not try to dissuade her. "Write to Flett," he said. He went out hastily in search of blankets and provisions, and when he returned, his hired men had gathered about the door and the note was finished. He threw it to one of them.
"It's what I think," said Edgar. "Shall I send a man for Flett, or will you?" "That's fixed, anyway," said a voice outside the open door. "We're not going." It was obvious that the hired men had followed them as far as the passage, for Grierson, entering the room, explained: "He means we've made up our minds to look for Mr. Lansing." Grant nodded in assent. "Then my man goes.
It was obvious that a fight, which Flett suspected was the result of a drunken orgy, had been in progress not long before; but he could find no liquor nor any man actually under its influence, though the appearance of several suggested that they were recovering from a debauch.
It had grown dark and the trail was rough, but the farmer plodded homeward, stopping a few moments now and then. The path, however, grew smoother when they had left the sandy ridges behind, and by and by the lights of the homestead commenced to twinkle on the vast shadowy plain. Soon after they reached it, George rode away, mounted on a fresh horse, in search of Constable Flett.
George was tired and sleepy when he reached the settlement early in the morning, and found Flett at Hardie's house. It transpired from their conversation that there had been a disturbance at the Sachem on the return of a party which had driven out to the sale, and one man, who accused a companion of depriving him of a bargain, had attacked and badly injured him with a decanter.
Hurst was elected president. Other officers were: Vice-presidents, Mrs. Belford, Mrs. C. H. Burke, Mrs. Hood; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mack; recording secretary, Mrs. Bessie Mouffe; financial secretary, Mrs. Harold Duncan; treasurer, Mrs. Eichelberger; auditor, Mrs. Katherine Flett; librarian, Mrs. F. C. MacDiarmid.
Where have you been, my lad, all this while past since Davie Flett fell owerboard?" "What!" I asked, "did Davie come ashore?" "Ay, did he," said the fisherman; "he was picked up by his own boat, and they brought him ashore here the next morning. We sent three luggers out to seek you yourself, when we heard that you were aboard the Falcon alone, but they could find you nowhere."
There was a child with him a little girl." "Yes, yes; I mind that now, Andrew. The child was Thora herself." "And that cave was the same that the smugglers were taken in on Saturday," said David Flett. "The very same," said the dominie. "And this box, here, has remained in the cave ever since the wreck. See, the ship's name is painted on it!" And he turned the box with the name outward.
George smiled. "I dare say it will be understood by the opposition, but I don't mind. It looks as if I were a marked man already." A few minutes later Flett went out to attend to his horse; George took Grant into a smaller room which he used for an office; and Edgar and Flora were left alone. The girl sat beside the stove, with a thoughtful air, and Edgar waited for her to speak.
There was no counter or bar, and the liquor was brought "ben" by Oliver or his sonsie wife. One Saturday morning I had to go there to see old David Flett about a boat that Captain Gordon wanted to buy from him. I found him at the inn before me, sitting there with a goodly company of Stromness men and skippers, whose ships were, like the Lydia, undergoing repairs or waiting for fair winds.
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