"Right well do I remember it," said Mr. Duke. "He was cast ashore in the wreck of a Danish barque about a dozen years ago, or more. What was the ship's name, now?"
"The Undine?" suggested Mr. Drever.
"Ay, that's just it, the Undine. And Sandy Ericson found Carver in some hole in the cliff two or three days after the wreck."
"That was so," said Andrew. "And you will also mind that Carver was not alone in the cave. There was a child with him--a little girl."
"Yes, yes; I mind that now, Andrew. The child was Thora herself."
"And that cave was the same that the smugglers were taken in on Saturday," said David Flett.
"The very same," said the dominie. "And this box, here, has remained in the cave ever since the wreck. See, the ship's name is painted on it!"
And he turned the box with the name outward. We read the word "Undine."
The schoolmaster then opened the box and took from it a bundle of papers and a book, handing them to the bailie.
"By these you will see, sir, that the barque Undine sailed from Glasgow, bound for Copenhagen, and that her owner's name was Quendale--Ephraim Quendale, of Copenhagen. The ship's book will also show you that at Glasgow she took on board the man Carver Kinlay and his wife, his son Tom, and an infant girl."