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Updated: June 22, 2025
It was the air of the same idyll of Snowdon that I first beard Winifred sing on the sands of Raxton. Then I heard in the distance those echoes, magical and faint, which were attributed by Winifred and Sinfi to the Knockers or spirits of Snowdon.
The cuss is on her wuss nor ever, judgin' from the gurn and the flash of her teeth. I waited for two or three seconds in the wildest impatience. 'Let's follow her now, I said. 'No, no, she whispered, 'not yet, 'less you want to see her tumble down the cliff. After a few minutes Sinfi and I went up the main pathway.
'Probably the walk to the top and then down to Llanberis, and then on to Carnarvon, is really to take place, as originally arranged only with the slight addition that some one is to join us! I shall soon be back, either alone or with Sinfi, and then we shall know. She ran up the path. Against her wish I followed her for a time.
When she told me that she knew you and that you had been there together, and when she told me the cause of your being there, and told me of your search for me, and all the distress that came to you on my account, my longing to see you was like a fever. 'But vivid as were the pictures that Sinfi gave me of your search for me, I could not piece them together in a plain tale.
The man who had been 'chaffing' Sinfi then rose and walked towards his Quaker-like companion, and I had an opportunity of observing him fully. I saw that he was a spare man, wearing a brown velvet coat and a dark felt hat. The collar of the coat seemed to have been made carefully larger than usual, in order to increase the apparent width of his chest. His hair was brown and curly, but close cut.
How well I remember telling her how I had promised Winnie as a child to be betrothed by Knockers' Llyn. Poor Sinfi! Mad or sane, her generosity remains undimmed. Before the breakfast cloth could be laid indeed before the basket was unpacked she asked me to look at my watch, and on my doing so and telling her the time, she jumped up and said, 'It's later than I thought.
'Well, said Sinfi, 'I've just met one of our people, Euri Lovell, as says that, the very mornin' after we seed her on the hills, he met her close to Carnarvon at break of day. 'Then she did go to Carnarvon, I said. 'What a distance for those dear feet!
I had not much time, however, for bringing my thoughts to bear upon this new source of wonderment; for I suddenly saw Winifred and Sinfi descending the steep path towards me. But what a change there was in Sinfi!
I had before observed that Panuel when market-merry always designated Videy the 'back-bred un, that took a'ter Shuri's blazin' ole dad! When sober his views of heredity changed; the 'back-bred un' was Sinfi. After breakfast next morning it was agreed that Panuel and Videy should walk to the Place to see that everything was going on well, while Sinfi and I should remain in the bungalow.
Sinfi then said some more words in Romany, whereupon Videy held out the money to me. I felt it best to receive it, though Sinfi never once looked at me; and I could not tell what expression her own honest face wore, whether of deadly anger or mortal shame. The two sisters walked off in silence together, while Rhona set up a kind of war-dance behind them, and the three went down the path.
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