leave given. The fisher folk in particular must keep to the road
by the other side of the burn, to which the sea gate admitted them.
Lizzy therefore lingered near the tunnel, afraid of being seen.

Mr Crathie was a man who did well under authority, but upon the
top of it was consequential, overbearing, and far more exacting than
the marquis. Full of his employer's importance when he was present,
and of his own when he was absent, he was yet in the latter
circumstances so doubtful of its adequate recognition by those
under him, that he had grown very imperious, and resented with
indignation the slightest breach of his orders. Hence he was in no
great favour with the fishers.

Now all the day he had been fuming over Malcolm's behaviour to him
in the morning, and when he went home and learned that his wife
had seen him upon Kelpie, as if nothing had happened, he became
furious, and, in this possession of the devil, was at the present
moment wandering about the grounds, brooding on the words Malcolm
had spoken. He could not get rid of them. They caused an acrid
burning in his bosom, for they had in them truth, like which no
poison stings.

Malcolm, having crossed by the great bridge at the house, hurried
down the western side of the burn to find Lizzy, and soon came upon
her, walking up and down.

"Eh, lassie, ye maun be cauld!" he said.

"No that cauld," she answered, and with the words burst into tears:
"But naebody says a kin' word to me noo," she said in excuse, "an'