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"I suppose you'll be sergeant shortly," George remarked. "Corporal comes first," said Flett. "They stick to the regular rotation." "That's true, but they seem to use some discretion in exceptional cases. I hardly think you'll remain a corporal." Flett's eyes twinkled. "I did get something that sounded like a hint. I'll confess that I felt like whooping after it."
"I've just been speaking with Lieutenant Fox of the Clasper," I said. "He wants me to go into the revenue business." "Ay! and so you're to be a blue jacket, eh?" mused Flett, without offering any objection to my leaving the Falcon. "No," I replied, "I'm not sure yet that I'll join them, captain. The fact is, I have also seen Jack Paterson, and he wants me to become a pilot."
The only thing that puzzles me is the man that Ericson saw lying in the captain's room." "Maybe he went aboard in Iceland, Peter a passenger," suggested Flett. "Ye canna tell." "Ay, that'll just be it," mused Peter, "a passenger, no doubt. Ay, I well believe that will just be what he was." Lieutenant Fox at this point moved away from the circle to get a light for his pipe at the stove.
Now, what d'ye say? Will you join us yourself?" "I'm afraid not, Mr. Fox," I replied, for I had already half made up my mind about the piloting, and with true Orkney instinct I clung to the old ways of my family. "I'm afraid not, sir. You see I'm aboard the Falcon just now, and if I leave Davie Flett it will only be to join the new pilots.
If they're heading for the boundary and I guess they are they'll be in Dakota or Montana long before any of the boys I'll wire to could come up with them. Our authority doesn't hold on American soil." "Is that to be the end of it?" "Why, no," Flett answered dryly.
"I'm interested, so is Miss Grant, and you needn't be afraid of either of us spreading what you say." "It's my notion that Flett has spotted his men, but I guess he's now watching out near the boundary in Canada. These rustler fellows can't do all their business on one side; they'll have to cross now and then.
Flett received me with a friendly welcome when I went into the inn, ordering a cup of coffee for me, and bidding me sit beside him until Captain Gordon should join us. He spoke of me to Captain Wemyss, and at that the whole company present fell to talking of the accident in the Sound.
"What does he say the diamond is worth?" I asked of Flett. The sum he named astonished me. I could scarcely contain my wonder at the thought of it. "Five hundred guineas," answered Flett. Five hundred guineas! Why, that was a fortune. "Would you give me that much for it?" I asked, looking at old Isaac. "Ah! mine young man, you tink me rich.
Taking up the knife George had handed him, Flett pointed to some initials scratched on the bone haft. "Kind of foolish thing for the fellow to put his name on his tools; but I don't know anybody those letters might stand for. Now you describe him as clearly as you can, while I put it down."
"Ay, but dinna mind that part o' the story, Jack," interrupted Mr. Duke; "just begin where Steenie and you heard the dog." "Yes, Mr. Duke," said Paterson, dropping his sou'wester in his nervousness. And then he repeated what Captain Flett had already told me. "Did you both go into the cottage?" asked the bailie. "No," said Jack, "Steenie ran away down to the town to tell the doctor.
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