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But, holding on with one hand, she coolly took a piece of oatcake from her pocket, and munched it. Then with a dexterous movement she changed her position, got safely round the point, and went onward. "Why, Thora, were you not feared for yoursel?" I asked, when I got near her again. "If I'd been feared, Halcro, I wouldna be here now," she quietly replied.
The schoolmaster then turned to me and said: "I think, Halcro, it's a pity that you lads didn't keep these things all together, and bring them here as ye found them. What for did ye divide them, as though they were so many blackberries? Ye couldn't do anything with them ye can't sell the things." "It was Tom Kinlay said he thought we should share them, sir. I didn't think we were doing wrong."
There is little doubt that it was young Halcro Ericson that did it." "Halcro Ericson! What! the boy Halcro Ericson?" exclaimed the lieutenant with undisguised surprise. "Why, then, that accounts for our finding him hiding in the cave! I would never have thought it." "What!" said the bailie. "You don't mean you have got the lad?"
Macfarlane showed him in just as I was finishing my tea and settling myself cosily before the fire. "Ah, Halcro, my lad!" he exclaimed in his breezy way, "I see they are making you comfortable here. I hope you find it no great hardship to be cooped up here, eh? It's hardly so bad as your experience on the Falcon, I should think?"
"It's me, Halcro Ericson. Open the door, Jack." "Save us all!" he exclaimed, raising the bolt. "What brings ye out on a night like this, lad? Come inside." "No; I'm seeking for Thora Kinlay; d'ye ken anything about her; she's lost!" "Lost! No; I ken nothing o' her. But wait and I'll see the bairns." He returned to the door in a few minutes. "Hilda says that Thora was here yestreen," he said.
"Why, Colin and Halcro were most friendly. It seems to me ridiculous that anyone should ever suspect such a thing o' the lad!" Mr. Duke here rang his bell and told Macfarlane to bring in Tom Kinlay. It was a considerable time before Tom appeared, with the jailer at his side, for he had to be brought out of the cell in which the smugglers were imprisoned.
"His dog came home without him, and we were feared he had gone ower the cliffs, or that some other mischance had happened him. "Where have ye been, Halcro, so late as ye are? You should have been in your bed lang syne." As I went to the nail for my cap, the dominie introduced Captain Gordon to Jessie.
But what can a helpless lassie do? Nobody has a good word to say for my father since the Curlew was lost, and I canna help it I hae just as great an ill will at him as anybody else has." "They say that it was all through Carver that my father was drowned," I said. "Tell me, Halcro, what was the quarrel between your father and mine? What way did it come about?"
"Halcro, my lad," said he, "I am real glad to see you. Thank the Lord ye're safe!" "I might say the same to you, captain," said I. "How were ye rescued, and where are Peter and Jerry?" "Peter and Jerry are at Oliver Gray's," he answered. "Come, let us join them. As for mysel', why, there's nothing much to tell. I was picked up by the boat ten minutes after I dropped owerboard.
I canna think that there would be any money value in it to speak of. But you'd better be careful not to lose it at any rate." "But the thing is of no use to me, sir, is it?" I asked. "That's for you to find out, Halcro," said he. "You see it is a sort of charm, or amulet.
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