‘We shall be able to live in a great big house—the biggest house in the parish—when we’ve found that purse and got the other with the golden pennies, the little Piskey Man told me,’ said the boy. ‘The money will come just when we most want it—won’t it, Great-Gran dear?’
‘“That is the wishtest news I’ve heard.”’
‘It will,’ chuckled the ancient dame; ‘an’ we must give ourselves no rest till we find that purse.’
‘I feared you had forgotten me,’ said the sweet wee voice in the Piskey-bag an hour later, when Gerna had taken it out of the chest.
‘I hadn’t forgotten you,’ said the child a little sadly; ‘but I couldn’t come before, ‘cause——’
‘Because what?’ asked the little voice anxiously. ‘You have not come to give me into the power of the Spriggans, have you?’
‘Not now, but I am afraid I shall have to,’ said Gerna.
And she then told her how the little Brown Man had come to her again, and how he had doubled his offer if she brought the lost purse to the goog. She also told her all the news Gelert had brought up from the beach, and of Farmer Vivian selling his cottage.