hardly get out of this country without accounting for a little
accident that happened at Warroch Point a few years ago.'

Hatteraick's looks grew black as midnight.

'For my part,' continued Glossin, 'I have no particular wish to be
hard upon an old acquaintance; but I must do my duty. I shall send
you off to Edinburgh in a post-chaise and four this very day.'

'Poz donner! you would not do that?' said Hatteraick, in a lower
and more humbled tone; 'why, you had the matter of half a cargo in
bills on Vanbeest and Vanbruggen.'

'It is so long since, Captain Hatteraick,' answered Glossin,
superciliously, 'that I really forget how I was recompensed for my
trouble.'

'Your trouble? your silence, you mean.'

'It was an affair in the course of business,' said Glossin, 'and I
have retired from business for some time.'

'Ay, but I have a notion that I could make you go steady about and
try the old course again,' answered Dirk Hatteraick. 'Why, man,
hold me der deyvil, but I meant to visit you and tell you
something that concerns you.'

'Of the boy?' said Glossin, eagerly.

'Yaw, Mynheer,' replied the Captain, coolly.