He was up at Lyndardy this mornin' seeing your mother for
information about all your movements these two days past. And now
I'm to go up to the schoolhouse and tell him--what shall I tell
him, Halcro?"
"Just tell him this, Davie: that the last time I saw poor Colin
Lothian was when we were in Gray's Inn. That I went straight home
from the Falcon, and never left the house till the servant woman at
Crua Breck knocked me up to seek for Thora. That I was out looking
for her part of the night and all the morning, and then that I
climbed down the Gaulton Cliff, thinking I would find her in the
cave. There, instead of finding Thora, I was taken along with the
smugglers and brought in the Clasper to Stromness, where Bailie
Duke himself arrested me.
"There, that is the sum of it all. Tell it to Mr. Drever, and he
will believe it and understand."
"Very good," said the skipper, and then he left me.
He had not gone out many minutes before Jimmy Macfarlane came into
the apartment and made a fire in the grate, and brought me water to
wash myself, and a good breakfast of coffee and fried bacon. When I
was made comfortable he left me alone again, and only disturbed me
during the rest of the day to bring in my meals or more fuel for
the fire.
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