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Hooever, he's a wonderfu' man; gangs aboot the country preachin' everywhere altho' he kens that the sodgers are aye on the look-oot for him, an' that if they catch him it's certain death. He wad have been at this communion nae doot, if he hadna engaged to preach somewhere near Sanquhar this vera day." "Then he has left the hidy-hole by this time, I suppose?"
Ye mind what Goliath and Hans Marais said before they left us, aboot keepin' a sharp look-oot." As no one replied to this, the Scot changed the subject by asking Considine when he meant to leave. "Not till Hans Marais comes over the hills to fetch me," was the reply. "He has taken upon himself to give me extended leave of absence.
"Hoot! mon; that was na wise-like. But after a' ye're ony a bairn. Here, Tam, ye'd better gang up by the Stank burn an' keep a look-oot ower the hills, an' I'll start him." Thus advised, the second constable diverged to the right, and, plunging into the copsewood, was instantly out of sight. Soon afterwards, Willie came to the place where he had met the gypsy.
"We wull hev to keep a sharp look-oot, Shames," remarked the skipper, as he stopped in his monotonous perambulation of the deck to glance at the compass. "Oo, ay," responded McGregor, with the air of a man who knew that as well as his superior. "What do you fear?" asked Mabberly, coming on deck at the moment to take a look at the night before turning in.
"Keep a sherp look-oot, Shames," cried the skipper, suddenly, as he went forward with unwonted alacrity. A few minutes more and the sound which had at first been distinguished only by Barret's sharp ear, became audible to all the soft regular patting of a paddle-wheel steamer in the distance, yet clearly coming towards them.