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"Yess, and the waterfahl do not forget the waterfahl, Colin; and there iss better whiskey in Tobbermorry ass you will get in all Greenock, where they will be for mixing it with prandy and other drinks like that; and at Tobbermorry you will hef a Professor come all the way from Edinburgh and from Oban to gif a lecture on the Gaelic; but do you think he would gif a lecture in a town like Greenock?
Mackenzie; and then he added carelessly, "Did you hear when the steamer was thinking of leaving Stornoway this night?" "They were saying it would be seven o'clock or six, as there was a great deal of cargo to go on her." "Six o'clock? I'm thinking, Duncan, I would like to go with her as far as Oban or Glasgow. Oh yes, I will go with her as far as Glasgow. Be sharp, Duncan, and bring in the boat."
From his pocket he extricated a brown envelope and a bulky telegraph form. 'Will you read it, sir, for I haf forgot my spectacles? It contained a description of one Brand, a South African and a suspected character, whom the police were warned to stop and return to Oban. The description wasn't bad, but it lacked any one good distinctive detail.
I shall then have a character to support. On landing at Rasay, he noticed the remains of a cross on the rock, 'which had to me a pleasing vestige of religion, and he 'could not but value the family seat more for having even the ruins of a chapel close to it. There was something comforting in the thought of being so near a piece of consecrated ground. Oban received them with a tolerable inn.
"Perhaps," he added, "she is at Mrs. Clutsam's. I daresay that's the truth of it." "She can't be there," Lady Ruth answered. "Mrs. Clutsam told me she was going out all day, to-day, to visit her husband's sister who is staying somewhere twenty miles from here on the Oban road, and longing, of course, to hear all about the murder at first hand.
'Back to Glasgow to do some work for the cause, I said lightly. 'Just so, he said with a grin. 'It's a great life if you don't weaken. We steamed out of the bay next morning at dawn, and about nine o'clock I got on shore at a little place called Lochaline. My kit was all on my person, and my waterproof's pockets were stuffed with chocolates and biscuits I had bought in Oban.
The heather is usually not more than two feet high, sometimes higher, but often shorter; but on Ellen's Isle it grows to the height of four and five feet. Just before we came to Oban, we passed the estate of Lord Heigh, where we heard the following story.
I went to Oban on the top of the coach in the most brilliant weather that ever is or can be, alternate sunshine and rain, with white clouds of a dazzling brightness. Under this enchantment, the barren land of Lorne seemed beautiful, and one forgot its poverty.
But to follow Gresson I must run risks and enter that country. His suspicions, if he had any, would be lulled if I left the boat at Oban, but it was up to me to follow overland to the north and hit the place where the Tobermory made a long stay.
May I come to see you?" Presenting this to his friend, Sam said, "May I despatch it?" Robin nodded, smiled, and looked foolish. An hour later Mrs Langley, sitting beside her daughter, took up a pen, and wrote as follows: "From Miss Letta Langley, Oban, to R. Wright, London. Yes." Presenting this to her daughter, she said. "May I send it?"
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