29/30 Swearing at his vanished chance of revenge, he opened it; it ran: Fly at once. Hamish believes you are uncanny, and has molded a silver bullet out of a half crown to lay your resless spirrit with. His rifel is oldfashuned, but he will not miss and waist the half crown he is so thriffty. He scanned every bush and gully with fearful eyes; he gave every thicket a wide berth, and every time he saw Hamish, and he saw him behind a thousand bushes and boulders, he shouted: "I'm Mr.Lambert from London, I'm not a spirit!" It was, indeed, a wasted and dirty money-lender who reached Tullispaith late in the day. |