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Drever," I replied. "I found it at the head of the Gaulton Cliff on Saturday." "Just so," said he smiling, "I had heard that. Now that stone may be wanted in evidence. Would you mind letting me have it?" "Here it is, sir," I said, handing it to him. And taking it with him, he left me to my thoughts.
"Then you do not accuse Carver Kinlay himself of smuggling?" "I should certainly have done that, Mr. Duke; but Carver Kinlay, unfortunately, is dead." "Carver Kinlay dead!" exclaimed the bailie. "Yes; he lost his life just now in the Gaulton Cave, where we discovered him and his crew in the act of carrying off contraband spirits.
But with all Thora's daring I was too sensible of the dangers of the Gaulton Craigs to allow her to make the descent of an unfamiliar precipice without climbing ropes, and when we had determined to explore the cave, I ran home for my lines and an old piece of tar rope to use as a torch in case we should require a light.
There is a story here of a man called Gaulton, which is vouched for by all the older men who can recall the incident. It seems that in Savage Cove this old George Gaulton lived till he was ninety. He died on December 4, 1883. On the 16th he appeared in the flesh to a former acquaintance at Port au Choix, fifty miles from the spot at which he had died.
The meaning of this was understood too late, for before the vessel could turn she was driven swiftly upon the North Gaulton rocks, and there smashed like a bottle of glass. Then the sail of the Curlew was lowered, and the boat taken as close as possible to the wrecked ship. The cries of the people on board were heard in the tempest, but there was little hope of saving life.
We returned by the top of the cliffs, where the snow was shallow, but nothing rewarded our search until we got as far as North Gaulton, where we observed what appeared to be footprints crossing our path. They were indistinct, for the wind had disturbed the snow; but they were indeed footprints, and we followed them.
Quendale, who had shown some kindness to her during the voyage, by reason of a resemblance that existed between the two children Mrs. Quendale's own child and the child of Mrs. Kinlay both of whom were of a like age. The story of the wreck of the Undine gave me many matters to ponder over. But the one practical thing that I learnt was this existence of a cave in the North Gaulton cliffs.
The noise of the storm raging outside the wind and rain beating on the windows, and the sound of the waves breaking against the cliffs brought the two men to talk about the ships that had from time to time been wrecked on our neighbouring coast. Said Mansie: "'Twas on a night like this d'ye mind, Colin? that the Undine went to pieces on the Gaulton Craigs."
A ship was wrecked here on the Gaulton rocks, and all your family were aboard. Your mother and Tom were picked up by the Curlew, but Carver and you werena found for some days after the wreck. My father found you both in a cave, down in the cliff, and if it hadna been for him, I suppose you wouldna be here now, Thora, to say that Carver had beaten you."
He commenced by saying to Tom: "You were taken in the North Gaulton Cave on Saturday, were you not?" But at this point Mr. Drever made an unexpected interruption. Hitherto he had, during the proceedings, been quietly but busily writing down the evidence, for use in the formal indictment which, as I afterwards learned, Mr. Duke was to submit to the procurator fiscal, whose deputy he was. "Mr.
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