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Just leave it all to me, Halcro, and dinna be downcast about biding here another night. But I must away now. Good e'en to ye!" "Good e'en, sir!" The good man was leaving me abruptly, when at the door he turned back. "Oh, Halcro!" said he, as though suddenly remembering something, "they tell me that your viking's stone has been amissing. Have ye heard anything of it yet?" "Why, yes, Mr.
Magnus is for sale, I weel ken that, and she's a right good boat. But where can a poor crofter body like me get the siller, think ye?" "'Deed, I dinna ken, Jack; but maybe the siller will come somehow. There's many a one in Orkney would advance it for you, surely. Dinna be cast down about it, man. What about your crew?" "Weel, I was thinkin' of yersel for one, Halcro?" "Of me!"
"Halcro," she said, "it is not this way I can see you turned from my father's door in the rain and the wind, and with that wound in your foot. Pm sorry he spoke to you like that, for I'm sure you'll be tired and weary. "I have brought you some oatcake see. Eat it, while I mend your foot."
"I'm driving at the truth, Mr. Thomson," said Bailie Duke calmly, "and I think I see it. In the first place, you will observe, sir, that no motive whatever has been found which would induce Halcro Ericson to raise his hand against poor Colin Lothian.
"Well, I'll take your advice and try the Bush, for it's aye the lads that find out the best waters. Thank you for the hooks, Halcro. Away with you; and see you're not so late at the school another morning." And as I scampered down the brae, I knew that he was watching me from the door.
And the picture of Whitefriars, though it is borrowed to a great extent, and rather anticipated in point of time, from Shadwell's Squire of Alsatia, sixty or seventy years after date, is of the finest, whilst Sir Mungo Malagrowther all but deserves the same description. But this most cantankerous knight is not touched off with the completeness of Dalgetty, or even of Claud Halcro.
Presently, after much use of his bandanna handkerchief, he continued: "Halcro Ericson, you were arrested on Saturday last on suspicion of being the murderer of Colin Lothian a poor, worthy man, known and respected in the Mainland for many, many years. At the time of your arrest on board the Clasper, the evidence against you was circumstantially complete, and appeared to be conclusive.
She at once offered to run to the house and bring him, but ultimately Robbie Rosson went instead, with my terrier at his heels. "How is it you are not at the fishing, Halcro?" inquired Thora when we were alone. "I saw the schoolmaster away down at the Bush just now as I came past. He seemed to be catching very little, though." "Ah!" I said, "I doubt it's too clear a day for the trout.
How Thora came to be there, leaning over me, I could not tell. My mind was in a strange confusion, and I remembered nothing of what I had gone through. But soon I heard another voice speaking to me. It was the voice of my sister Jessie. "Halcro! Halcro!" it murmured.
"Ah! now I begin to see your application. Go on, Halcro." I then spoke of finding the charts, and described how the Pilgrim had touched at Kirkwall. "She called at Kirkwall to put me ashore for hospital," interposed Peter Brown. "What!" exclaimed Mr. Duke. "And are you going to say that this Pilgrim was the vessel in which Mr. Quendale sailed for Copenhagen?"
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