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Updated: May 26, 2025
'Did you not say that the younker, as you call him, goes by the name of Brown? 'Of Brown? yaw; Vanbeest Brown. Old Vanbeest Brown, of our Vanbeest and Vanbruggen, gave him his own name, he did. 'Then, said Glossin, rubbing his hands, 'it is he, by Heaven, who has committed this crime! 'And what have we to do with that? demanded Hatteraick.
When the prisoners and their guard arrived there, Hatteraick, whose violence and strength were well known, was secured in what was called the condemned ward. This was a large apartment near the top of the prison.
'Well, sir, but in the meantime Mr. Mac-Morlan must commit you to the county jail, in case this young man repeats the same story. Officers, remove Mr. Glossin and Hatteraick, and guard them in different apartments.
'And now, said Glossin to himself, 'to find Dirk Hatteraick and his people, to get the guard sent off from the custom-house; and then for the grand cast of the dice. Everything must depend upon speed. How lucky that Mannering has betaken himself to Edinburgh! His knowledge of this young fellow is a most perilous addition to my dangers. Here he suffered his horse to slacken his pace.
But it was not with such reflections that the mind of this bad man was occupied. His eye was upon the gigantic and gloomy outlines of the old castle, where, in a flanking tower of enormous size and thickness, glimmered two lights, one from the window of the strong room, where Hatteraick was confined, the other from that of the adjacent apartment, occupied by his keepers.
Besides, it was all in the way of your profession, and happened a long time ago, ha, ha, ha! 'Pshaw! pshaw! don't let us jest; I am not against making a handsome compliment; but it's your affair as well as mine. 'What do you talk of my affair? is it not you that keep the younker's whole estate from him? Dirk Hatteraick never touched a stiver of his rents. 'Hush! hush!
And so ye see, sir, there was a king's sloop down in Wigton Bay, and Frank Kennedy, he behoved to have her up to chase Dirk Hatteraick's lugger ye'll mind Dirk Hatteraick, Deacon?
'And now I have brought you some breakfast, said Glossin, producing some cold meat and a flask of spirits. The latter Hatteraick eagerly seized upon and applied to his mouth; and, after a hearty draught, he exclaimed with great rapture, 'Das schmeckt! That is good, that warms the liver! Then broke into the fragment of a High-Dutch song,
But, speaking of Frank Kennedy, I daresay he'll be here the day, for he was away round to Wigton to warn a king's ship that's lying in the bay about Dirk Hatteraick's lugger being on the coast again, and he'll be back this day; so we'll have a bottle of claret and drink little Harry's health. 'I wish, replied the lady, 'Frank Kennedy would let Dirk Hatteraick alane.
"But, Hatteraick, this, that is, if it be true, which I do not believe, this will ruin us both, for he cannot but remember your neat job; and for me it will be productive of the worst consequences. It will ruin us both, I tell you." "I tell you," said the seaman, "it will ruin none but you for I am done up already, and if I must strap for it, all shall out."
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