Heritage arranged with Saskia that the lamp was to be kept burning low, and that on no account were they to move unless summoned by him.

Then he and Dickson made their way to the hall, where there was a faint glimmer from the moon in the upper unshuttered windows--enough to reveal the figure of Wee Jaikie on duty at the foot of the staircase.

They ascended to the second floor, where, in a large room above the hall, Heritage had bestowed his pack.

He had managed to open a fold of the shutters, and there was sufficient light to see two big mahogany bedsteads without mattresses or bedclothes, and wardrobes and chests of drawers sheeted in holland.

Outside the wind was rising again, but the rain had stopped.