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"All right, Capp'n," answered the imp, "I'll go to Guy's Hospital d'rectly and 'ave three-fourths of it ampitated." "Do," said the Captain, somewhat sternly, "an' ask 'em to attach a brake to the bit that's left. "Now, lad," he continued, "you've got a very dirty face." Gillie nodded, with his lips tightly compressed to check utterance. "And a very ragged head of hair," he added.
He wore a check suit much too small for him, a pink tie, and patent-leather shoes. Fanny's face was red and her manner somewhat flustered, but this the mother, bent low over her work, did not notice. "Good evening, m'm," said Mr. Gillie, coolly seating himself without waiting to be asked.
Gillie White is there also, and Susan Quick. The Captain is at home. The two latter are on a visit a social tea-party. Little Netta White, having deposited Baby White in the mud at the lowest corner of the Court for greater security, is waiting upon them a temporary handmaiden, relieving, by means of variety, the cares of permanent nursehood.
Their waiting had allowed Hamish and the new gillie to overtake them; and certainly the latter, deprived of his plaid, presented a sufficiently ridiculous appearance in the trousers and jacket that were obviously too big for him. But neither Lady Macleod nor Janet laughed at all when they saw this starved London waif before them.
How well one remembers deserting the gardener, and already appreciating the joys of having no gillie nor attendant, of being "alone with ourselves and the goddess of fishing"! I cast away as well as I could, and presently jerked a trout, a tiny one, high up in the air out of the water.
The gillie slid a quick glance towards the door, but the consul was before him. "I don't think THAT was left by your master," he said in an ostentatiously calm voice, for he was conscious of an absurd and inexplicable tumult in his blood, "and perhaps you'd better put it back." The man looked at the flower with an attention that might have been merely ostentatious, and replaced it in the glass.
Now Maol o Chliobain, the youngest of the widow's daughters, heard this, and she changed the necklaces, and so the gillie came and killed the Giant's daughters, and Maol o Chliobain took the golden cloth that was on the bed, and ran away with her sisters.
"Yes, it's coorious, ain't it, sir," said Gillie, "an' at other times everything seems to go right don't it, sir?" "True, my lad, that's a better view to take of it," returned the Captain, cheerfully, "come, we'll heave ahead."
On making this discovery Maurice was inclined to declaim in that vigorous vocabulary which is taboo. He had been tricked. He was no longer needed at the Red Chateau. Four millions in a gun barrel; hoax was written all over the face of it, and yet he had been as unsuspicious as a Highland gillie. Madame had tricked him; the countess had tricked him, the Colonel and Fitzgerald.
While this little incident was enacting in the valley, events of a far different nature were taking place among the mountains, into the solitudes of which the Professor, accompanied by Captain Wopper, Lawrence, Slingsby, and Gillie, and led by Antoine, had penetrated for the purpose of ascertaining the motion of a huge precipice of ice.
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