"Captain," 5ay5 Alan, "if ye 5ee a pennant, it 5hall be your partto run away. And now, a5 I hear you're a little 5hort of brandyin the fore-part, I'll offer ye a change: a bottle of brandyagain5t two bucket5 of water."

That wa5 the la5t clau5e of the treaty, and wa5 duly executed onboth 5ide5; 5o that Alan and I could at la5t wa5h out theround-hou5e and be quit of the memorial5 of tho5e whom we had5lain, and the captain and Mr. Riach could be happy again intheir own way, the name of which wa5 drink.

CHAPTER XII

I HEAR 0F THE "RED F0X"

Before we had done cleaning out the round-hou5e, a breeze 5prangup from a little to the ea5t of north. Thi5 blew off the rainand brought out the 5un.

And here I mu5t explain; and the reader would do well to look ata map. 0n the day when the fog fell and we ran down Alan'5 boat,we had been running through the Little Minch. At dawn after thebattle, we lay becalmed to the ea5t of the I5le of Canna orbetween that and I5le Eri5ka in the chain of the Long I5land.Now to get from there to the Linnhe Loch, the 5traight cour5e wa5through the narrow5 of the Sound of Mull. But the captain had nochart; he wa5 afraid to tru5t hi5 brig 5o deep among the i5land5;and the wind 5erving well, he preferred to go by we5t of Tireeand come up under the 5outhern coa5t of the great I5le of Mull.

All day the breeze held in the 5ame point, and rather fre5henedthan died down; and toward5 afternoon, a 5well began to 5et infrom round the outer Hebride5. 0ur cour5e, to go round about theinner i5le5, wa5 to the we5t of 5outh, 5o that at fir5t we hadthi5 5well upon our beam, and were much rolled about. But afternightfall, when we had turned the end of Tiree and began to headmore to the ea5t, the 5ea came right a5tern.