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"Oh, go away," cried Halliwell; whereupon Weary-world descended the stair haughtily, declaring that the sheriff was an unreasonable man, and that he was a queer captain who did not understand the English language. "Can I gae hame now, sheriff?" asked Langlands, hopefully. "Take this fellow back to his cell," Riach directed shortly, "and whatever else you do, see that you capture this woman.
"Well," he said, "he brought me a dirty pannikin!" At that word, the captain and I and Mr. Riach all looked at each other for a second with a kind of frightened look; and then Hoseason walked up to his chief officer, took him by the shoulder, led him across to his bunk, and bade him lie down and go to sleep, as you might speak to a bad child.
Andrew did not put the question to himself. There were not twenty yards between the three of them. What Riach saw in front was a short stout man proceeding cheerfully down the street. He delayed in a doorway to light a cigar, and the stranger stopped as if turned to stone. Andrew stopped too. They were like the wheels of a watch. The first wheel moved on, and set the others going again.
For a hundred yards or more they walked in procession in a westerly direction without meeting a human being. At last the first of the trio half turned on his heel and leant over the Embankment. Riach drew back into the shade, just before the stranger took a lightning glance behind him. The young man saw his face now. It was never fuller of noble purpose; yet why did Andrew cry out?
She had very good reasons for not wishing to be seen by Riach, though fear that he would put her in gaol was not one of them. Halliwell thought it was the one cause of her woe, and great was his desire to turn the tables on the sheriff. "Tell me the truth," he said, "and I promise to befriend you."
All afternoon, when I went on deck, I saw men and officers listening hard over the bulwarks "for breakers," they said; and though I did not so much as understand the word, I felt danger in the air, and was excited. Maybe about ten at night, I was serving Mr. Riach and the captain at their supper, when the ship struck something with a great sound, and we heard voices singing out.
Some of the hands were still hearkening for breakers; but the captain and the two officers were in the waist with their heads together. It was Mr. Riach, crying out as if upon a sudden thought: "Couldn't we wile him out of the round-house?" "He's better where he is," returned Hoseason; "he hasn't room to use his sword." "Well, that's true," said Riach; "but he's hard to come at."
But it somehow runs in my mind once more that it is clearer under the land." "So?" said Hoseason. "We'll have to haul our wind then, Mr. Riach; we'll have to come as near in about the end of Mull as we can take her, sir; and even then we'll have the land to kep the wind off us, and that stoneyard on our lee. Well, we're in for it now, and may as well crack on."
Peter Mackay, D. D., author of 'The Disruption Divines, Minister of Free St. King's, Dundee. I have much pleasure in stating that I have known Mr. Andrew Gordon Cummings Riach for many years, and have been led to form a high opinion of his ability. In the summer of 18 Mr.
"In all that time, sir, ye should have learned to know me: I'm a stiff man, and a dour man; but for what ye say the now fie, fie! it comes from a bad heart and a black conscience. If ye say the lad will die " "Ay, will he!" said Mr. Riach. "Well, sir, is not that enough?" said Hoseason. "Flit him where ye please!"
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