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Updated: June 24, 2025
'I must arrange for the day's work, said the millionaire, and Lady Bude sighed and left him. 'First, he said aloud, 'we must get the doctor from Lairg to see Blake. Over forty miles. He rang. 'Benson, he said to the butler, 'order the tandem for seven. The yacht to have steam up at the same hour. Breakfast at half-past six.
A mounted man must be despatched to Lairg to collect vehicles and transport there, and to meet the real Gianesi if he came that way. Thus Mr. Macrae, with cool patience and forethought, endeavoured to recover his position, happy in the reflection that treachery had at last been eliminated. He did not forget to write telegrams to remote sheriff-substitutes and procurators fiscal.
For example, in Sutherlandshire we learn that a man who had been with a friend to the town of Lairg to enter his first child's birth in the session-books, and to buy a keg of whisky against the christening, sat down to rest at the foot of the hill of Durchâ, near a large hole from which they soon heard a sound of piping and dancing. Feeling curious, he entered the cavern, and disappeared.
No more would Logan say, beyond asking questions, which Merton could not answer, about the transatlantic past of the vanished heiress. They loitered back towards the hotel and lunched. The room was almost empty, all the guests of the place were out fishing. Presently the motor returned from Lairg, bringing Mr. Gianesi and a large box of his electrical appliances.
The grooms arrived from Lairg, in the tandem, with the doctor and a rural policeman. Bude had telegraphed to Scotland Yard from Lochinver for detectives, and to Glasgow, Oban, Tobermory, Salen, in fact to every place he thought likely, with minute particulars of Miss Macrae's appearance and dress.
The doctor, after visiting the bar, went on in the motor to Lairg; it was to return for Merton, who had business enough on hand in sending the despatches. He was thinking over 'The Seven Hunters. It might be, probably was, a blind, or the kidnappers, having touched there, might have departed in any direction to Iceland, for what he knew.
I enclose a banknote for 10l., which pray, if you would oblige me, distribute among the servants at the Castle. Please thank Mr. Macrae for all his hospitality. Among my books you may find something to interest you. You may keep my manuscript poems. Very faithfully yours, GERALD BLAKE. 'P. S. The genuine Gianesi will probably arrive at Lairg to-morrow.
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