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Above all, here, and here only, were observed the vestiges of a child's foot; and as it could be seen nowhere else, and the hard horse-track which traversed the wood of Warroch was contiguous to the spot, it was natural to think that the boy might have escaped in that direction during the confusion.
I am more afraid of a new attempt at legal oppression than at open violence, and from that this young man's presence would deter both Glossin and his understrappers. Hie away then, my boy; peer out peer out, you 'll find them somewhere about Derncleugh, or very probably in Warroch wood. Hazlewood turned his horse. 'Come back to us to dinner, Hazlewood, cried the Colonel.
The walk was a long one, for the Point of Warroch lay on the farther side of the Ellangowan property, which was interposed between it and Woodbourne. Besides, the Dominie went astray more than once, and met with brooks swoln into torrents by the melting of the snow, where he, honest man, had only the summer recollection of little trickling rills.
Here, call in Soles Soles the shoemaker. Soles, do you remember measuring some footsteps imprinted on the mud at the wood of Warroch, on November 17 , by my orders?" Soles remembered the circumstance perfectly. "Look at that paper is that your note of the measurement?"
"Hark you, Hatteraick, I can't set you at liberty, but I can put you where you can set yourself at liberty. I always like to assist an old friend." So he gave him a file. "There's a friend for you, and you know the way to the sea, and you must remain snug at the point of Warroch till I see you." "The point of Warroch?" Hatteraick's countenance fell. "What in the cave?
"You may retire," said he to his clerk, "and carry the people with you, but wait within call." Then: "You are Dirk Hatteraick, are you not?" "Tousand teyvils! And if you know that, why ask me?" "Captain, bullying won't do. You'll hardly get out of this country without accounting for a little accident at Warroch Point a few years ago." Hatteraick's looks grew black as midnight.
After this last cordial wish, he continued watching the progress of the boat as it stood away towards the Point of Warroch, until he could no longer distinguish the dusky sail from the gloomy waves over which it glided. Satisfied then that the immediate danger was averted, he retired with somewhat more composure to his guilty pillow.
Dinmont gave a sagacious nod, and they continued to follow, over wet and over dry, through bog and through fallow, the footsteps of their conductress. She guided them to the wood of Warroch by the same track which the late Ellangowan had used when riding to Derncleugh in quest of his child on the miserable evening of Kennedy's murder.
'I believe that's very true, said the postilion. 'So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch Head, where he was found that evening; but what became of the babe, frankly I cannot say. But he that was minister here then, that's now in a better place, had an opinion that the bairn was only conveyed to fairy-land for a season.
'Indeed, sir, to say the truth, though the terrible outlines of that day are strongly impressed upon my memory, yet somehow the very terror which fixed them there has in a great measure confounded and confused the details. I recollect, however, that I was walking somewhere or other, in a wood, I think 'O yes, it was in Warroch wood, my dear, said the Dominie. 'Hush, Mr.
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