IHREE HOURS GONE, MR. MACLEAN, THREE HOURS<br > --and never a word of the lifeboat.<br > You can imagine just how it was. There were only<br > the four of us there--Eachan, Torry Mor, old Grant,<br > and myself. Talk? Never a word among the lot of us,<br > nor even the heart of a dram--and there on the table,<br > was a new bottle of Talisker, and Eachan not looking<br > for a penny.<br > We just sat there like a lot of stookies, Seumas<br > Grant with his expressionless face and yon wicked<br > old pipe of his bubbling away, and the rest of us des-<br > perately busy with studying the pattern of the wall-<br >ii paper. Listening to the screech of the wind, we were,<br > and the haft like chuckles battering against the win-<br >I dows of the hotel. Dhia! What a night that was! And<br > the worst of it was, we couldn t do a thing but wait.<br >i My, but we were a right cheery crowd.<br > I think we all gave a wee bit jump when the tele-<br > phone rang. Eachan hurried away and was back in a<br > moment beaming all over. One look at yon great<br > moonface of his and we felt as if the Pladda Light-<br > house had been lifted off our backs.<br > "Four glasses, gentlemen, and see s over the Ta-<br >
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