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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Many men were in Lerwick men, too, who never get to their feet for nothing; and no man was so well hated as Nicol Sinclair. But Nanna said: 'I have had sorrow enough. If you touch him you touch me ten-fold.
Then to Nicol her tone was only a shade less commanding. "Let that quirt touch me, and I won't answer for the consequences. Guess you've no right to thrash my boy, and I'm right here to see you quit. Think it over," she added, and, with her last word, there was a movement of her rifle which added to its aggression. Just for a moment it looked as though a clash was inevitable.
About Paul Harley, eagerly alert, there was something essentially British. Nicol Brinn, without being typical, was nevertheless distinctly a product of the United States. Yet, despite the stoic mask worn by Mr. Brinn, whose lack-lustre eyes were so unlike the bright gray eyes of his visitor, there existed, if not a physical, a certain spiritual affinity between the two; both were men of action.
He now inquired into my adventures since we entered his country, and laughed heartily at my account of the battle we had in the inn, and at the exploits of the Bailie with the red-hot poker. "Let Glasgow Flourish!" he exclaimed. "The curse of Cromwell on me, if I wad hae wished better sport than to see cousin Nicol Jarvie singe Iverach's plaid, like a sheep's head between a pair of tongs.
"Late on the last night but one thou didst go to the house of Nicol Hendry, who is no common catcher of thieves, but a spy of nations whose business is with the great ones of the earth. Tell me: whom did thy business with him concern?" "Prince Oscarovitch and yourself." "What were his orders?"
Nicol Brinn strode to the telephone, which stood upon a small table almost immediately in front of the bookcase. The masked door remained ajar. "You are quite fixed upon detaining me?" "Quite," said Stokes, watching him closely. In one long stride Brinn was through the doorway, telephone in hand!
She had waited half an hour, when the door opened and the face of Nicol was introduced round the corner of it. "Will you please come this way," he said. Telling her maid to stay where she was, Juliet followed him. He opened the other door on the landing, and announced her in a loud voice as, with a quickened pulse, she passed him, and entered the room. There were two men standing by the hearth.
'Wha was it that gruppit the whutteruck ? And is there anything worse than whutterucks in that hole in the castle? 'Ye'll find out, Nicol, my man, said his cousin Neil. 'There's warlocks. And they'll grup ye by the legs. 'I'll save the penny anyway, said Nicol, to whom a penny was a thing of known and substantial value.
"All his life he has toyed with danger. He admitted to me that during the past seven years he had courted death. Isn't it plain enough, Innes? If ever a man possessed all that the world had to offer, Nicol Brinn is that man. In such a case and in such circumstances what do we look for?" Innes shook his head. "We look for the woman!" snapped Paul Harley.
After due consultation between Nicol Hendry and his colleagues of France, Germany, and Russia, it was decided to follow up the clues which he had so mysteriously received.
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