"No, no," said Kind imperatively, "when he goes it will be with Elspeth. If he's alone he may get drinking and let out that you are here."
"Nae when a thoosand a year's tae be got," said Gowrie joyously, and in his glee began to sing a Scotch ballad in a cracked voice--
"'The day may daw, the cock may craw,
But aye we'll taste the barley bree.'
"Aye, Robbie Burns, Robbie Burns, weel did ye ken the joys o' life."
[CHAPTER XVI]
MR. GOWRIE'S PLOTTING
"Have you found him; have you really, really found him?"
"Aye! He's rin tae earth like a tod, young leddy."
"Oh!" Maud Tedder clapped her hands, and a bright light came into her tired-looking eyes. "I'm so glad--I'm so delighted. Now he's caught the law will hang him for killing poor pa, and I'll--" she was about to add that she would inherit the money, but thought it wiser not to reveal her private business too minutely, and ended differently, "I'll have done my duty," said Maud Tedder virtuously.
"An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," boomed Mrs. Mountford.