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Updated: June 6, 2025
But is there not something more moving still in the boatman's version: "they were never seen again . . . they were not found indeed till this day"? The folklorist, of course, is eager to know whether the boatman's much more complete and connected narrative is a popular mythical development in the years between 1820 and 1890, or whether the schoolmaster of Rannoch did not tell all he knew.
My name's Rannoch; centre-forward. Ye see? Were ye at the match?" Mr Cowlishaw understood. He had no need of further explanation; he had read it all in the Signal. And so the chief victim of Tottenham Hotspur had come to him, just him! This was luck! For Rannoch was, of course, the most celebrated man in the Five Towns, and the idol of the populace. He might have been M.P. had he chosen.
I wanted to see Muriel Leithcourt, and to question her further regarding Elma Heath. Therefore again I left Euston, and, traveling through the night, took my seat at the breakfast-table at Greenlaw next morning. Sir George, who was sitting alone it not being my aunt's habit to appear early welcomed me, and then in his bluff manner sniffed and exclaimed: "Nice goings on up at Rannoch!
Therefore we often found ourselves alone tramping across the wide open moorland, or along those delightful glens of the Nithsdale, glorious in the autumn tints of their luxurious foliage. Her father, on the other hand, seemed to view me with considerable suspicion, and I could easily discern that I was only asked to Rannoch because it was impossible to invite my uncle without including myself.
She wanted to speak to me in confidence, and yet she would reveal to me nothing absolutely nothing. Martin Woodroffe did not rejoin the house-party at Rannoch. Although I remained the guest of my uncle much longer than I intended, indeed right through the shooting season, in order to watch the Leithcourts, yet as far as we could judge they were extremely well-bred people and very hospitable.
With his latter remark I entirely coincided. In my own mind that was the strongest argument in favor of Leithcourt's innocence. That the tenant of Rannoch had kept that secret tryst in daily patience I knew from my own observations, yet to me it scarcely seemed feasible that he would use a weapon so peculiarly Italian and yet so terribly deadly.
"He rented a shoot called Rannoch, near Dumfries. A mysterious incident occurred on his estate a double murder, or murder and suicide; which is not quite clear but shortly afterwards there appeared one evening at the house a man named Chater, Hylton Chater, and the whole family at once fled and disappeared."
Was it Leithcourt himself whom I had surprised? That idea somehow became impressed upon me and I suddenly resolved to go boldly across to Rannoch and ascertain for myself.
"Where were you yesterday, sir?" he inquired presently. "I was shooting on the other side of the Nithsdale," I answered, and then went on to explain my movements, without, however, mentioning my visit to Rannoch. "And although you know the murdered man so intimately, you have no suspicion of anyone in this district who was acquainted with him?" "I know no one who knew him.
'I'se warrant he would go to his cousin's at Rannoch. 'Well, but if they followed him to Rannoch? 'That, quoth Evan, 'is beyond all belief; and, indeed, to tell you the truth, there durst not a Lowlander in all Scotland follow the fray a gun-shot beyond Bally-Brough, unless he had the help of the Sidier Dhu. 'Whom do you call so?
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