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There were four rowers, a steersman, and two others, muffled in cloaks. Annie watched them till the boat disappeared in the windings of the harbour; and she was out on the hill-side, in the cold February wind, when she saw the whole party ascending from the shore, and taking the road to Macdonald's. Here was news! There must be news. Better not tell even Helsa till she had heard the news.
Helsa went on to say that she could have cried longer than the boy, for she was afraid to think of being alone with Lady Carse at times when Annie interrupted her by saying, with a smile, "You need not have any dread of living in this house, Helsa. I have no thought of leaving it. There is some mistake." Helsa was delighted with this assurance.
The pastor next began wondering whether Rollo was still playing the watchman in the harbour tired and hungry; and he was proceeding to wonder how a clever lad like Rollo could let himself be made such a fool of by his mother, when Helsa cut short the soliloquy by telling that Rollo was at home. He had come up just now with the steward. "The steward," cried Lady Carse, springing to her feet.
"Do not be afraid," she said cheerfully to them. "I shall never forget you. I shall think of you every day. Whenever you see a sea-bird winging over this way, send me your love: and when I see our birds go south, I will send my love to you." "And whenever," said Helsa, "you see a light over the sea, you will think of Widow Fleming's lamp, won't you?"
Wot y' lookin' at?" he added, following Skelton's fascinated stare. Then: "Well, f'r Christ's sake!" The girl, Helsa, was coming toward them through the trees. "Where have you been?" she demanded. "Have you seen the Americans? I've been waiting here beside the path. They haven't passed. I met one of our agents in the woods there was a misunderstanding at first "
One day when Annie was trimming her lamp, she observed Helsa, Lady Carse's maid, watching the process earnestly from the door, where she was looking in. "Come in, Helsa," said the widow, in Gaelic, which was more familiar to the girl than English. "Come in, if you have nothing better to do than to see me trim my lamp." "I am afraid about that lamp, and that is the truth," replied Helsa.
Recklow produced his clay pipe, inspected it, but did not venture to light it. "I wonder," he said carelessly, "what that she-Boche is doing over yonder by the summit path.... Her name is Helsa.... She's not bad looking," he added in a musing voice "that young she-Boche. ... I wonder what she's up to now? Her people ought to be along pretty soon if they've travelled by the summit path from Delle."
It was such a pity that their father was gone, just at this time, to visit a sick person at Macdonald's farm! But their mother went directly, as fast as she could run, and Lady Carse and Helsa were to follow her as soon as Helsa had put up a bundle. To recall Mr Ruthven was the first thing Annie thought of.
I am not sure that I can keep awake all the night when winter comes: but they say I must." Helsa was surprised to find that the widow knew nothing of the plan that Lady Carse now talked of more than anything else: that Annie was to go and live at Macdonald's, that Lady Carse and her maid might have the widow's house, where Helsa was to do all the work in the day, and to keep the lamp at night.
Up this he stumbled under the forest patches of alternate moonlight and shadow until he came to a hard path crossing it on a masonry viaduct. "Harry!" he called in a husky, quavering voice, choking for breath. "Cripes, Harry where in hell are you?" "Here, you blighter! What's the bully row? Where's Helsa " "With Recklow!" "What!!" "Double-crossed us!" he whispered; "I seen her!
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