come, when the inhabitants of Boden were probably at rest indoors. They were so busily engaged laying plans that they did not comment upon the perfect silence which reigned in the ge

thing to draw the attention, and then

aspard remarked, and then he hallooed as they

ot in the geo. The place was small and without any corner for concealment. It was light eno

more. Dogs are very social, and solitude had not been pleasing to Pirate. The first person to speak was Lowrie, and a certain amount of s

the water like a sealkie. He would swim round the rocks till h

unless I had given a word of command. Besides, Gloy let us understand that he would n

d him up," Lowrie answered, scrat

been near Bode

d have kent if any boat had been this way

s the Laulie," said Yaspard musingly. "Perhaps the Manse bo

te paper fluttering on top of the rod had drawn Gibbie's attention, and he was not long in seizing upon this. It had been carefully tied to

phy was traced a few words, mysteri

ou, and no more has Pirate; but you need not

s shaggy coat, he cried, "Oh, my dog, if you could speak English! I believe

oked wistfully at his master as much as to say, "Why do you

se you are about right, doggie; you've been here too long

ft the geo, and sailed slowly up the voe once m

right," said Lowrie, "so we needn't concern

night's performance as far as we can without our captive. We can possess ourselves of his intended 'cell' (in spite of this horrid 'sell'), an

wrie's reply; and Gi

he Hoobes and brought up at the "dyke-end," where she had stopp

, as if an army of enemies were in ambush close by; "don't

ng behind turf walls and creeping along knolls, so that n

in its prime, therefore Yaspard's precautions were ne

came out carrying a peat-keschie. He was going to the stack for fuel, and the particul

e comes round this end of

a convenient height on the broken side of the stack, and lazily proceeded to fill it with peats. Tammy had a habit,

em the run o' the raubit-house; and where wad a' my night-sports be

dnight revels and strange beings who doubtless had a certain kind of existence in Tammy's imagination. Only one th

r isle as ever men and money will pit, though the Laird-puir body-speaks aboot it evermair, and evermair will speak. Yea, yea! puir Tammy and his pate-keschie does mair for ill-luckit, wandering sea-folk than d

back-door behind him, and then Yaspard stole round to the

hat the Harrisons, waiting for that same signal, were not quite sure that it was Yaspard, and no bird. But wh

a blanket and towel, armour in plenty, a knife, fork, plate, and mug; two candles, a box of matches, and a basket of nondescript victuals. Stowing these into two keschies bro

t-now roofless and in ruin. At the farther end of this room there was a low doorway, leading to a dark passage; and as Yaspard walk

ust the place that is to be our ca

e others, who went boldly along the passage, intending to enter the haunted room by a broken doorway of which Yaspard

range sounds on the other side of the boarding, evidently provoked by his own unguarded tones. The sounds were like a child's cry, blended with the sharp short barking noise which

over the ruin, looking up at a window in the angle of the wall, and when the others

A ba

the final blow which

erie,"