It was half-flood when I got the length of Aros; and there was nothing for it but to stand on the farshore and whistle for Rorie with the boat. I had no need to repeat the signal. At the first sound, Mary was at the door flying a handkerchief by way of answer, and the old long-legged serving-manwas shambling down the gravel to the pier. For all his hurry, it took him a long while to pull acrossthe bay; and I observed him several times to pause, go into the stern, and look over curiously intothe wake. As he came nearer, he ...
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It was half-flood when I got the length of Aros; and there was nothing for it but to stand on the farshore and whistle for Rorie with the boat. I had no need to repeat the signal. At the first sound, Mary was at the door flying a handkerchief by way of answer, and the old long-legged serving-manwas shambling down the gravel to the pier. For all his hurry, it took him a long while to pull acrossthe bay; and I observed him several times to pause, go into the stern, and look over curiously intothe wake. As he came nearer, he seemed to me aged and haggard, and I thought he avoided myeye. The coble had been repaired, with two new thwarts and several patches of some rare andbeautiful foreign wood, the name of it unknown to me.'Why, Rorie, ' said I, as we began the return voyage, 'this is fine wood. How came you by that?''It will be hard to cheesel, ' Rorie opined reluctantly; and just then, dropping the oars, he madeanother of those dives into the stern which I had remarked as he came across to fetch me, and, leaning his hand on my shoulder, stared with an awful look into the waters of the bay.'What is wrong?' I asked, a good deal startled.'It will be a great feesh, ' said the old man, returning to his oars; and nothing more could I get out ofhim, but strange glances and an ominous nodding of the head. In spite of myself, I was infectedwith a measure of uneasiness; I turned also, and studied the wake. The water was still andtransparent, but, out here in the middle of the bay, exceeding deep. For some time I could seenaught; but at last it did seem to me as if something dark-a great fish, or perhaps only a shadow-followed studiously in the track of the moving coble. And then I remembered one of Rorie'ssuperstitions: how in a ferry in Morven, in some great, exterminating feud among the clans; a fish, the like of it unknown in all our waters, followed for some years the passage of the ferry-boat, untilno man dared to make the crossing.'He will be waiting for the right man, ' said
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