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"We caught this bird over on the moor the day, sir," I said, "and I brought it, thinking ye'd like to put it in one o' your glass cases." "Man, Halcro, but that's a bonny specimen! A harrier, a hen harrier, I declare! 'Deed but it will be a right fine addition to our collection. And what way did ye kill it, d'ye say? Not wi' a gun, surely?"
He drew the reins, and I saw him regarding the elder girl with great interest. She raised her blue eyes as we stopped eyes as blue and clear as the sky itself. Her fair hair hung in waves about her shoulders, and as her rosy lips were parted to say, "Good morning, Halcro!" they revealed a row of white and regular teeth. "Good morning, Thora!" I said in reply to the greeting she had given.
"There's Robbie Rosson, he'd be glad of the chance." "Bring him to me then, Halcro, and we'll take him along with us next trip to see if he likes it." Here was a fortunate opportunity. By my own advancement I was to be the means of helping my two school companions. Willie Hercus was to join the revenue cutter; Robbie Rosson was to go aboard the Falcon.
We crept in under the vessel's counter; a rope was thrown to us, and in a few moments I was on her quarterdeck, standing all trembling and nervous before a tall beautiful woman, whose deep-blue eyes and fair, breeze-blown hair were all that I could see everything else was lost to me. "Halcro!" she exclaimed, holding out her two sunburnt hands in greeting. "Thora!"
Think o' that, lad! A book written by your ain dominie printed! Nay, nay, Halcro, dinna speak o' trouble." "And what is being done about Tom Kinlay, sir?" I asked. "Weel, as to that, ye see, the lad has broken the law by appropriating his part o' the treasure, and selling it. I can do nothing mysel', beyond stating the nature o' his offence. The law must tak' the matter into its own hands.
Thora rose from her seat and came towards the door, where I stood in a stream of water that ran from my wet clothes. "Oh, Halcro!" she exclaimed as she looked down at my cold, bare feet and saw the blood issuing from the wound in my ankle. "Oh, Halcro, what has happened?" and she opened wide the door to admit me. "What does the lad want here?" asked Carver.
For a moment I fancied it was the shrieking of some monster inhabitant of the cave and was about to beat a retreat when I heard my name called again. "Halcro! Halcro! Help! help!" And then the whole place was in utter darkness, and I heard nothing but the dying echoes, and a strange purling of running water.
A person finding treasure of this sort can have only a third part of its value. Is that not so, Mr. Gordon?" "Yes," said the captain, "I fancy you're right, Mr. Drever. Of course you refer to the law of treasure trove?" "Exactly," agreed the master. Then turning to me, he continued: "You see, Halcro, the Crown will claim a share of it, and the laird gets another part.
"Are ye at the head o' the class yet, Halcro?" "Nay, father, he's no that yet," interposed Jessie, "for Thora is aye before him." "Thora can read better than I can," I said, "and she kens mair geography. She's better at the Latin, too; but the dominie says I'm the best at history, and writin', and accounts." "Ye'll no need very muckle Latin to be a pilot, however," said my father.
A strange new sensation came over me as I held it in my own rough palm. My heart beat quicker, and I felt myself growing red in the face. "Take the ring, Thora, and wear it for the sake of those who have gone before;" and I slipped the glistening ring upon her finger. "Thank you, Halcro!" she said, very softly. "Thank you! I will wear it for my father and mother's sake, and also for yours."
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