Viking Boys

step here and there along it. It might even be called a stairway; therefore the little room-which had been the

that the courage of a Viking-boy was going to be daunted by trow-laughter or ghost-lights. No; nor by stone walls and high windows! The walls of Trullyabister were rugged, and, on that side

ence in words; he shut his mouth up tight, and, scrambling over

erest, and when his hands were on the wind

he occupied such a position. Just as his face appeared at the window another face-a horrid face, from which a pair of large melancholy ey

readful apparition, but descended from his equivoca

ows and the distance. Although they were too intelligent to credit any story of trows, they had lively imaginations, and had been bred in a land where the mysteries of creation take fantastic shapes in the minds of a wonder-loving an

ut it," but Yaspard was in no hurry to tell. He retreated again into the ruin, whither his companions

, in the whole adventure, therefore it is not to be wondered th

back to our boat. There's nae gude tae be got o' sittin

ney, which was stopped up and grown over above, but had capacious ledges inside which suited admirably for the purpose they required. Their things were deposited there, and then the three adventurers sto

he had maintained in a most unusual manner. "It all works in!-works in beautiful!" he remarked. Now, that was not at all the kind of spee

e effect of dissipating all the fears with which they had b

nyway, they are as bad as Vikings, for they have captured a poor lady and shut her up in the haunted room, with her baby too-all just the way pe

rk mad?" Gibbie

t, as you please. I saw the mother, and I saw the baby; and I saw the back-I am

nted room! But how did they g

e, and that is

ulated Lowrie; "and yet," he added, "we must allow we

e did," reto

came to the window?" Gibbie asked.

t their imaginations, and the dread they were in, as well as the uncertain light, had caused them to fancy they saw something peculiar. They w

d, "Easy, easy, boys! One thing at a time! Don't let us forget, in our haste to be after this business, that we have other important matters on hand. We have to find

Gibbie, "that we are

Gibbie's brow, and sent him home believing as implicitly as before that Yaspard would find a way of making things come straight.

ouse. She was not a little disturbed on hearing of his disappearance, but the factor said, "There's nae harm come to the lad. Ye need not be frightened. It's pl

man, could shake Harrison's belief in his own theory of the matter. "You'll see I'm right," he ended with; "but I wad like tae ken what way young master is g

owrie was fidgeting in his chair, trying to gather courage to tell the yet more

er could hae thought that Mr. Neeven was a

, and one of the older girls cried out, "What in a

risoned in the haunted room, and his father listened to

stirred his soul, and the great glowing eyes that had appeared for one brief moment at the small window. It was al

s instead o' shutting up your ain? Weel, my boys, tak care that ye dinna find yoursel's in a trap, as mony a wild fellow o' a sea-rover has found himsel' in times

ff second best," said the boys confide

wi' if ye tackle Mr. Neeven, or meddle wi' ony o' his affairs. I wadna

such puir critters prisoned in such a place; and

just warning you tae be careful;-I mean that ye tell y

what you say,"

ss the matter, and a significant look he gave them

a comrade,

Bris