“None to purpose,” replied Claud Halcro; “but she held me close to question about Minna’s illness, too,—and I told her how I had met her abroad the other morning in no very good weather, and how her sister Brenda said she had hurt her foot;—in short, I told her all and every thing I knew.”
“And something more besides, it would seem,” said the Udaller; “for I, at least, never heard before that Minna had hurt herself.”
“O, a scratch! a mere scratch!” said the old man; “but I was startled about it—terrified lest it had been the bite of a dog, or some hurt from a venomous thing. I told all to Norna, however.”
“And what,” answered the Udaller, “did she say, in the way of reply?”
“She bade me begone about my business, and told me that the issue would be known at the Kirkwall Fair; and said j
