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I was busy at a cold partridge, and hard at it, when I thought again how curious it was that my father should be a-foot in the house at such time of night and no one else about, he so early a bedder for ordinary and never the last to sneck the outer door. "Did you expect any one, father," I asked, "that you should be waiting up with the collation, and the outer door unsnecked?"
"You ken fine, Sneck," said Cruickshanks, "that you said, 'Thou art the man' to ilka ane o' them, and just voted for Mr. Dishart because he preached hinmost." "I didna say it to Mr. Urquhart, the ane that preached second," Sneck said. "That was the lad that gaed through ither."
It was all falling out beautifully. Not only had Van Sneck turned up in the nick of time, but he was not in a position to do any further mischief. It suited Bell exactly that Van Sneck should be hors de combat for the moment. The first thing to be done was to see Lord Littimer without delay. Bell had no idea of humbly soliciting an interview.
From that day to this nothing has ever been touched in the house. And Henson comes here when he can and makes our lives hideous to us." "I fancy I shook him up to-night," Littimer said, with subdued triumph. "He seemed to shudder when I told him that I had found Van Sneck." Enid started from her chair. Her eyes were shining with the sudden brilliancy of unveiled stars.
All the same, the Rembrandt the other one is destroyed." "Van Sneck has seen the picture," Littimer said, doggedly. "Oh, play the farce out to the end," Henson laughed, good-humouredly. "Where did he see it?" "He says he saw it at 218, Brunswick Square." Henson's knees suddenly came up to his nose, then he lay quite flat again for a long time.
Then she hurried breakfast a little, and as the light grew over land and sea she tidied her room and dressed Vala and herself for the kirk. As the sound of the first service bell traveled solemnly over the moor she was ready to leave the house. Her last duty was to put a peat or two upon the fire, and as she was doing this she heard some one lift the sneck and push open the door.
"You can speak quite freely. How is Van Sneck?" "Very queer," David responded. "Bell hoped to have operated upon him before this, but such a course has not been deemed quite prudent. The day after to-morrow it will be, I expect. Henson has found out where Van Sneck is." "Indeed. Has he been to see you?" "He has been more than once on all kinds of ingenious pretences.
"What's that?" cried Mattha from within; "I thought it might be the sneck of a gate." When Mrs. Garth reached home, after her interview with Rotha in the road, there was a velvety softness in her manner as of one who had a sense of smooth satisfaction with herself and her surroundings.
Van Sneck was jealously guarded by Heritage and Bell for the next few hours. He awoke the next morning little the worse for the operation. His eyes were clear now; the restless, eager look had gone from them. "Where am I?" he demanded. "What has happened?" Bell explained briefly. As he spoke his anxiety passed away. He saw that Van Sneck was following quite intelligently and rationally.
"An' what cam o' Esau, sir?" asked a pale faced maiden with blue eyes. "He wasna an ill kin' o' a chield was he, sir?" Ye see he had a guid hert, but was a duller kin' o' cratur a'thegither, and cared for naething he could na see or hanle. He never thoucht muckle aboot God at a'. Jacob was anither sort a poet kin' o' a man, but a sneck drawin' cratur for a' that.
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