"The Undine."
"The Undine! I've seen that name on a box at Crua Breck that father keeps his money in. But tell me all about it. Did Captain Ericson tell you about the wreck?"
"No. I only heard of it a week before he was drowned. It was Colin Lothian and my uncle Mansie that told it me. Auld Colin kens all about it, and more than he told to me."
"Colin is a good old man, Halcro. When next I see him I will ask him to tell me what it was that he kept from you. Colin would keep nothing from me, I believe."
"Maybe not. But listen, and I will give you the story as I heard it."
Thora lay down on the grass, with her hands under her chin, and I proceeded to tell her of the wreck of the Undine.
"Thank you, Halcro!" she said when I finished. "That is all very new to me. I remember nothing of being in that cave. How cold I must have been! But Carver was good to me then. I can almost forgive him for trampling over my flowers."
Then, after a pause, she asked: "Have you ever been in that cave, Halcro? Where is it?"
"I've not been in it," I said; "but I ken whereabout it is. Come and I will show you."
And then I took her out to an abutting point of the headland, and indicated the position of the cavern behind a great rock that hid its entrance, a few feet above the high-tide mark.