hair, and gave me the long clasped knife she used to wear—you don't know what she said. Sturm wetter! it will be your wisdom not to tempt me!"
"But, Hatteraick, my good friend, do but rise and speak to me."
"I will not!—you have caused all the mischief; you would not let Meg keep the boy; she would have returned him after he had forgot all."
"Why, Hatteraick, you've turned driveller!"
"Wetter! will you deny that all that cursed attempt at Portanferry, which lost both sloop and crew, was your device for your own job?"
"But the goods, you know"
"Curse the goods! we could have got plenty more; but, der deyvil! to lose the ship and the fine fellows, and my own life, for a cursed coward villain, that always works his own mischief with other people's hands! Speak to me no more—I'm dangerous."
