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Updated: May 19, 2025
"We weel tak' one look more, m'sieu, before we harness zee dogs." They went up to the outlook together. The lake once more showed its white expanse unbroken; the little blot of moving dots having withdrawn. Stane stared on the waste, with an expression of blank dismay upon his face, then he turned to his companion. "Zee man, he camp," explained Bènard.
You not dead, so I pour hot whisky in your mouth an' you return from zee happy-huntin' grounds. Dere you have zee whole narrative." "But Helen?" cried Stane, looking round. "Where " "I haf seen not any mees!" answered the trapper. "I did not know dat dere was " "Then they have taken her," exclaimed Stane, staggering to his feet, and looking round. Jean Bènard also looked round.
It has come down to the water just the other side of the bluff. I am going to stalk it." She hurried away from the camp. Ten minutes passed and Stane still listened for her shot. Then it came, and sharp and clear on the heels of it came a cry of triumph. The injured man smiled with pleasure. A few minutes later, when Helen returned, there was a gleeful look upon her face. "Got it!" she cried.
Ten minutes later the pole failed to touch bottom, and a current of water setting across the lake began to drift them well from the shore. As he saw that, Stane gave a sigh of relief. "You can sit down and rest now, Miss Yardely. There is nothing further to be done for the present. It is a case of time and tide now, but I think we are perfectly safe."
Any time during the last fortnight I would have given a thousand pounds for those stores." "I expect the owner, if he returns, will be glad to sell them you for a good deal less," she retorted with mock petulance. "It was treasure trove I was hoping for." "You can't live on gold," laughed Stane, "and you can on the contents of these tins. We must annex them.
"Oh the likenesses were there, right enough," interrupted Stane, "and I certainly had been in Harcroft's rooms, alone, and I suppose in company with his cheque book. Also I had lost rather a pot of money on the boat-race, and I am bound to admit all the other incriminating circumstances." "Yes, but you don't know everything.
"You fool!" he whispered to himself. "You fool!" A moment later the girl entered the tent again. In her hand she carried a rather decrepit hussif and a hank of strong linen thread. She held them down for him to see. "I am making free with your possessions, Mr. Stane, but there's no help for it. I simply must repair these rags of mine."
Even where the authorities were unprejudiced they were helpless to interfere; and as a rule they were as bitter against the Black Nibs as the populace themselves. Once the patriarch was running through the street with a score of the enemy at his heels, and the bailie, opening his window, shouted to them, "Stane the Black Nib oot o' the toon!"
Is it possible that Stane escaped after all? He " "I thought one of your men saw his body?" interrupted Helen, quickly. "He certainly saw the body of a white man, or so he avers, and I had no reason to suppose that it could be any one else!" "Then," said the girl, "you are not sure?" "No, not in the sense you mean; but I am morally certain that but why worry about Stane?
Nor could her mother, as she bent over her daughter, understand why her liberation should have been followed by so much sorrow; nay, loving her as she did, she even reproached her as being ungrateful to God. "Mother," said the girl, "I have a secret that lies like a stane upon my heart. George Lindsay had nae mair to do with that forgery than you." "And who had to do with it then, Effie, dear?"
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