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Now Tom Kinlay, I must tell you, was some twelve months older than I, and, as I had reason to remember, much taller and stronger. In our early school days he had exercised a tyranny over me which I even now recall with feelings partly of indignation against him, and partly of shame in myself for having so foolishly bent under the yoke of his oppression.
Ay, and a bonnie boat she is! As to what Carver means to do wi' it Weel, I dinna ken if it be true; but I hae heard that he intends to start as a Stromness pilot in opposition to Sandy Ericson." "A pilot!" exclaimed Mansie. "Carver Kinlay a pilot! Man, Colin, ye astonish me. Why, the man hasna gotten a certificate!" "Maybe ay and maybe no; but I assure ye, Mansie, that a pilot he means to be."
Having exchanged a few friendly remarks with me, he asked if I would go and spend the evening with him. "Come and take some supper with us, lad," said he. "Thora will be glad to see ye." "Thora!" I exclaimed. "Ay, Thora. Did you not know Thora lives with us now?" "No; I thought she had gone to Caithness with Mrs. Kinlay."
"Certainly he knew of it," the dominie returned; "but its value consists in the papers it contains, most of them being in the Danish language, which Kinlay was ignorant of. Had he known that tongue he would doubtless have seen that a large number of the documents are drafts upon the National Bank of Denmark, and other claims of value."
He was alone and asleep." "You descended the cliff without the aid of ropes, I believe?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know any other lad in Pomona who could have done such a thing? Kinlay, there, for instance?" "He might have done it, sir, but not in winter." "How, then, do you account for Kinlay getting into the cave?"
"I see no reason for it," said Bailie Thomson. "This is not a formal or judicial inquiry; it is a simple precognition of witnesses." "I think, Mr. Thomson," mildly interposed the schoolmaster, "that you will see a little later on the necessity of it. Besides, you must remember that Kinlay is already a prisoner on two separate charges." "Yes," said Mr.
Frustrated in his revenge upon the Jew, Kinlay now turned upon me his indignation. He accused me of willingly allowing him to sell the ruby below its value. I simply told him that it was no business of mine, and quietly asked him where he had got the gem. "But I needna ask you that," I added, "for I well ken where you got it."
But it was little use my thinking of launching a heavy lifeboat when you were afloat there at hand." "Well, well, it couldn't be helped," said Kinlay. "It was their own fault they were capsized, and there's no use talking. Put your helm to starboard, skipper, and let's get you into port." "Is this man a pilot, Ericson?" asked Captain Gordon, turning to me.
"You great brute, Tom Kinlay!" exclaimed Jessie indignantly; "if Halcro had been here you would not have done this cruel thing." "Well," said Tom, "what for did the sheep go into our field, eating up all the clover? Halcro should have been minding them. It serves you right that the sheep have gone over the bank." This, and more that I know not of, was said between them.
He had two things that he wished to tell me: the one being that his written account of Jarl Haffling's remains had been read before the Society of Antiquaries in Edinburgh, and was to be printed in the Society's Transactions; the other matter being that proceedings were, he believed, very soon to be taken against Tom Kinlay for having appropriated a part of the viking's treasure.
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