"I must have known why I was coming here--because, you see, I brought the pin." And her eyelashes lifted themselves and made their circling shadows again.
"Then I must have the pin.

And it will be a talisman.

I shall have a little flat case made for the leaves and the sacred pin shall hold it together.

When I go into battle it will keep me safe.

Bullets and bayonets will glance aside." He said it, as he laid the treasure away in his purse, and he did not see her face as he spoke of bullets and bayonets.
"I am a Highlander," he said next and for the moment he looked as if he saw things far away.