Say, then, that the other sixth might be defined as no-friend, or as false friend! Say that it was wilful, impatient of superiorities, proud, vain, willing to hurt, betray, and play the demon generally! Say that once it gave itself swing it darkened some of the other sixths....

Well, it is done! Yet there was gold.

Perhaps, laird of Glenfernie, there is still gold in the mine!" "You are mistaken in your proportions.

Gold! You are to me the specter of the Kelpie's Pool!" Silence held for a minute or two.

The clouds, passing between earth and sun, made against the mountain slopes impalpable, dark, fantastic shapes.