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Updated: May 25, 2025
'We shall be heavily enough loaded already, with all of ourselves; and they're bringing both the dogs. As they came nearer the two walking bundles proved to be indeed Reggie and Tricksy, carrying enormous bundles of ferns.
'You can write it out now, with Allan's new fountain pen, cried Tricksy; 'this flat stone will do for a desk, and I've got some pieces of paper that I've been carrying in my pocket in case we might find any new people to join our Compact; and she produced with great gravity some crumpled sheets of note-paper, much soiled at the edges.
Tricksy smiled in a consoled way as she put her hand into the big outstretched one of the boy; and the whole party set off to race along the top of the cliff and down to where the pier jutted out from a small village nestled in a low part of the shore. Laddie gave an excited bark and scampered beside the others, wondering what was going to happen.
Reggie glanced at her approvingly as Tricksy toiled along beside Hamish, hoping that no one observed that she was hanging on to big hand. 'Oh, what a height from the ground, said Gerald in an awed tone of voice, as the moor ended abruptly and they found themselves gazing down from the crest of what seemed a sheer precipice, with long lines of breakers falling upon the strip of sand at the foot.
Then Allan said gravely, 'That wouldn't be honourable, Tricksy. We must play fair, you know. 'Honourable! Honourable to a thief! But yes, of course we must. Well, I don't know what's to be done then, and Tricksy concluded by a big sigh. When the coastguard station came in view a man was standing at the gate, scanning the road with a telescope.
If you really have found a diamond-mine, youngsters, something will have to be done about shares. Who finds keeps, you know. We'll have the place properly surveyed and see what happens. But don't begin counting your chickens too soon these Australian diamond- mines are tricksy things; you never know how they are going to pan out. Wait a bit before you plan what to do with your fortune."
But he was also tricksy as a Brownie or as Puck; and that fairy aspect of his character and legend, he being the midnight thief whose maraudings account for the unexplained disappearances of things, is the chief topic of the gay and reckless hymn. Even the Gods, even angry Apollo, are moved to laughter, for over sport and playfulness, too, Greek religion throws her sanction.
'No, said Tricksy, 'neither I have, and she fumbled in her pocket and drew out a crumpled paper which she gave to Allan. Her brother looked at it. 'What's this? he said. 'I don't understand. 'Look at the number, Allan, and the date, said Hamish. Allan examined the paper; then flushed to the ears.
'Well, Miss Marjorie, it's just this; one of the money orders that was stolen was sent back from Edinburgh Post Office; and it was Neil who had sent it away in a letter. It's from that they make out that it was Neil who stole it. 'Neil couldn't have done such a thing, broke in Reggie, with signs of a storm in his voice. 'Does Mother know? and Father? asked Tricksy breathlessly.
Alvan, left to himself, had a quiet belief in the subjugation of his tricksy Clotilde, and the inspiriting he had given her. All the rest to come was mere business matter of the conflict, scarcely calling for a plan of action. Who can hold her back when a woman is decided to move?
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