CHAPTER 1
"CALLED AFTER THAT WORK WHICH HE HAD TO DO."
"How I wish I had lived hundreds of years ago, when the Vikings lived; it must have been prime!"
He was a Shetland boy of fifteen who so spoke, and he was addressing his young sister of eleven. They were sitting on a low crag by the shore, dangling their feet over the water, which flowed clear and bright within a short distance of their toes. They were looking out upon a grand stretch of...
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