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THE P UBLIC LEDGER.
01 MIDNIGHT VISITOR.
I heard our iHsltor give a great scream.
I have often been amused, when read
ing stories told in the first person, to see
how the narrator makes himself out, as a
matter of course, to be a perfect and spot
less man. All around may have their
passions and weaknesses and vices, but
he remains a cold and blameless nonen
tity, running like a colorless thread
through the tangled skein of the story.
I shall not fall into this error. I see my
self as I was in those days, shallow
hearted, hot headed and with little prin
ciple of any kind. Such 1 was, and such
I depict myself.
From the time that I finally identified
our visitor Digby with Achille Wolff,
the diamond robber, my resolution was
taken. Some might have been squeam
ish in the matter, and thought that be
cause he had shaken their hand and
broken their bread he had earned some
port of grace from them. I was not
troubled with sentimentality of this sort.
He was a criminal escaping from justice.
Some providence had thrown him into
our hands, and an enormous reward
awaited his betrayers. I never hesitated
for a moment as to what was to be done.
The more I thought of it the more I
admired the cleverness with which he
had managed the whole business. It was
clear that lie had a vessel ready, manned
either by confederates or by unsuspecting
fishermen. Hence lie would be indepen
dent of all those parts where the police
would be on the lookout for him. Again,
if he had made for England or for Amer-
ca, he could hardly have escaped ultimate
capture, but by choosing one of the most
desolate and lonely spots in Europe he
had thrown them off 1 lis track for a time,
while the destruction of the brier seemed
to destroy the last clew to his where
abouts. At present he was entirely at
our mercy, since he could not move from
the island without our help. There was
no necessity for us to huny, therefore,
and we could mature our plans at our
leisure.
But my father and I showed no change
in our manner toward our guest, and he
himself was as cheery and light hearted
as ever. It was pleasant to hear him
singing as we mended the nets or calked
the boat. His voice was a very high
tenor and one of the most melodious I
ever listened to. I am convinced that
he could have made a name upon the
operatic stase, but like most versatile
scoundrels he placed small account upon
the genuine talents which he possessed,
and cultivated the worst portion of his
nature. Mv father used sometimes to
e-e him sidewaj-s in a strange manner,
and I thought I knew what he was think
ing about but there I made a mistake.
Une day, about a wees alter our con
versation, I was fixing up one of the rails
of our fence, which had been snapped in
the gale, when my father came along the
seashore, plodding heavily among the
pebbles, and sat down on a stone at my
elbow. I went on knocking iu the nails,
but looked at him from the corner of my
eyes as he pulled away at his short black
pine. I could see that he had something
weight'' on his mind, for he knitted his
brows and his lips projected.
"D'ye mind what was in yon paper?"
he said at last, knocking his ashes out
against the stone.
"Yes," I answered shortly.
"Well, what's your opeenion?"
asked.
"Whv, that we should have tho
he
re-
ward, of course!"' I replied.
"The reward!' he said with a fierce
snarl. "You would tak' the reward.
You'd let the stane that's worth thoo-
sands an thoosands gang awa' back tae
some furrin Papist, an a' for the sake o'
a few pund that they'd fling till ye, as
thevflinsr a bane to a doff when the
meat's a' gone. It's a clean ningm awa
o' the gifts o' Providence."
"Well, father," I said, laying down
the hammer, "you must be satisfied with
what you can get. You can only have
what is offered." ,
"But if we got the stane itseF," whis
pered my father, with a leer on his face.
"He'd never give it up," I said.
"But if he deed while he's here if he
was suddenly"
"Drop it, father, drop it! " i cried, for
the old man looked like a fiend out of
the pit. I saw now what he was aiming
at.
"it he deed, lie snouted, "wiia saw
him come, and wha wad speer where
he'd ganged till? If an accident hap
pened, if he came by a dud on the heid,
or woke so:ne nicht to find a knife at hi9
trapple, wha, wad be the wiser?"
'You mustn't speak so, father," I said,
thouerh I was thinking many things at
the same time.
w -'
"It may as well be oot as in," he an
swered, and went, away rather sulkily,
turning around after a few vards and
holding up his finger toward me to im
press the necessity of caution.
My father did not speak of this mat
ter to me again, but what he said rankled
in my mind. I could hardly realize that
he meant his words, for he had always,
as far as I knew, been an upright, right
eous man, hard in his ways and grasp
ing in his nature, but guiltless of any
great sin. Perhaps it was that he was
removed from temptation, for. isother
mal lines of crime might be drawn on
the map through places where it is hard
to walk straight, and there are others
where it is as hard to fall. It was easy
to be a saint in the Island of Uffa.
One day we were finishing breakfast
when our guest asked if the boat was
mended (one of the tholepins had been
broken). I answered that it was.
"I want you two," he said, "to take
me round to Lamlash to-day. You shall
have a couple of sovereigns for the job.
I don't know that I may not come back
with you but I may stay."
My eyes met those of my father for a
flash. "There's no' vera much wind,"
he said.
"What there is is in the right direc
tion," returned Digby, as I must call
him.
"The new foresail has no' been bent,"
persisted my father.
"There's no use throwing difficulties
in the way," said our visitor angrily.
"If you won't come, I'll get Tommy
Gibbs and his father, but go I shall. Is
it a bargain or not?"
"I'll gang," my father replied sullenly,
and went down to get the boat ready. I
followed, and helped him to bend on the
new foresail. I felt nervous and ex
cited. "What do you intend to do?" I asked.
"I dinna k'en," lie said irritably. "Gin
the worst come to the worst we can gie
him up at Lamlash but oh, it wad be a
peety, an awfu1 peet You're young
an strong, laddie; ran we no' mastei
him between us?"
"No," I said, "I'm read' to give him
up, but I'm damned if I lav a hand on
him."
"You're a cooardly, white livered
loon!" he cried, but I was not to be
moved by taunts; and left him mum
bling to himself and picking at the sail
with nervous fingers.
It was about two o'clock before the
boat was ready, but as there was a
slight breeze from the north we reck
oned on reaching Lamlash before night
fall. There was just a pleasant ripple
upon the dark blue water, and as we
stood on the beach before shoving off we
could see the Carliu's Leap and Goat fell
bathed iu a purple mist, while beyond
them along the horizon loomed the long
line of the Argyleshire hills. Away to :
the south the great bald summit of Ailsa
Craig glittered in the sun, and a single
white fleck showed where a fishing boat
was beating up from the Scotch coast.
Digby and I stepped into the boat, but
my father ran back to where I had been
mending the rails and came back witii
the hatchet in his hand, which he
stowed away under the thwarts.
"What d'ye want with the ax?" oui
visitor asked.
"It's a handy thing to hae aboot a
boat," my father answered with averted
eyes, and shoved us off. We set the fore
sail, jib and mainsail and shot awa'
across the Roost, with the blue watei
splashing merrily under our bows. Look
ing back I saw the coast line of our little
island extend rapidly on either side.
There was Carravoe which we had left,
and our own beach of Carracuil. and the
steep, brown face of the Combera. and
away behind the rugged crests of Beg-na-phail
and Beg-na-sacher I could see
the red tiles of the byre of our home
steading, and across the moor a thin blue
reek in the air which marked the posi
tion of Corriemains. My heart warmed
toward the place which had been my
home since childhood.
We were about half way across the
Roost when it fell a dead calm, and the
sails flapped against the mast. We were
perfectly motionless except for the dri ft
of the current, which runs from north
to south. I had been steering and my
father managing the sails, while the
stranger smoked his eternal cigarettes
and admired the scenery; but at his sug
gestion we now got the sculls out to
row. I shall never know how it began,
but as I was stooping down to pick up
an oar I heard our visitor give a great
scream that he was murdered, and look
ing up I saw him with his face all in a
sputter of blood leaning against the
mast, while my father made at him with
the hatchet. Before I could move hand
or foot Digby rushed at the old man and
caught him round the waist. "You gray
headed devil," he cried in a husky voice,
"I feel that you have done for me; but
you'll never get what you want. No
never! never! never!"
Nothing can ever erase from my
memory tne intense ana concenirarea
malice of those words. My father gave
a raucous cry, the swaed and bal
anced for a moment, and then over they
went into the sea. I rushed to the side,
boathook iu hand, but they never came
up. As the long rings caused by the
eplash widened out, however, and left
an unruffled space in the center, I saw
them once again. The water was very
clear, and far, far down I could zee the
shimmer of two white faces coming and
going, faces which seemed to look up at
me with an expression of unutterable
horror. Slowly they went down, re
volving in each other's embrace until
i.1 1 . A 1. lr-m r. . t
LTIKV WHlf miumrn' (JUL X U.UI ik. iUVJIii UU'.I I
mMhiietarm m tin
men raaea iron- my view vji - s- -they
shall lie, tho Frenchman and the
Scot, till the great trumpet shall sound
and the sea give up its dead. Storm
may rage above them and great ships
labor and creak, but their slumber shall
be dreamless and unruffled in the silent
green depths of the Roost of Uffa. I
trust when the great day shall come that
they will bring up the cursed stone with
them that they ma show the. sore temp
tation which the devil had placed in
their way as some slight extenuation of
their errors while in this mortal flesh.
It was a weary and lonesome journey
back to Carravoe. I remember tug-tugging
at. the oars as though to snap them
in trying to relieve the tension of my
mind. Toward evening a breeze sprang
up and helped me on my way, and be
fore nightfall I was back in the lonely
homesteading once more, and all that
had passed that spring afternoon lay be
hind me like some horrible nightmare.
I did not remain in Uffa. The croft
and the boat were sold by public roup
in the market place of Androssan, and
the sum realized was sufficient to en
able me to continue my medical studies
at the university. I fled from the island
as from a cursed place, nor did I ever
set foot on it again.
Gibbs and his son, and even Minnie
Fullarton, too, passed out of my life com
pletely and forever. She missed me for
a time no doubt, but I have heard that
young McBane, who took the farm, went
a-wooing to Corriemains after the white
fishing, and as he was a comely fellow
enough he may have consoled her for
my loss. As for myself, I have settled
quietly down into a large middle class
practice in Paisley. It has been in the
brief intervals of professional work that
I have jotted down these reminiscences
of the events which lead up to my
father's death. Achille Wolff and the
Rochvieille diamond are things of the
past now, but there may be some who
will care to hear of how they visited the
Island of Uffa. A. Conan Doyle in
Temple Bar.
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