The pair strolled out by the castle, they walked on the golf links; they became intimate. Said jolly Will Wood at the right moment, “I heard a friend of mine say that he knew a man who got it right from a fellow that could swear to the truth of it, that the uncle of your first-mate, Madder, was burned in oil for attempting to set fire to the Dutch ships at Amsterdam.” George stopped in his walk. He raised a finger toward the sky--a reeling, waving finger--in solemn affirmation. “If what Mr. Madder had done during this last voyage,” he declared slowly, “were as well known, he deserved as much as his uncle had met with.” Under all the circumstances, that remark could only mean one thing--the _Worcester_ had been concerned in the piracy of the _Speedy Return_ and the murder of her crew, who were then supposed to be all dead. Incredible as it may seem, this drunken maundering of steward Haines, coupled with the unintelligent suspicions of the Wilkies, the Seatons and others, passed from the water front to the city until it reached the officers of the law who--no more intelligent--made it the basis for a charge of piracy and murder against Green and his crew, upon which they were all arrested and marched off to the dark holes of the old Tolbooth prison. The _Annandale_ was forgotten; the _Speedy Return_ and Captain Drummond took its place, and all Scotland roared with one voice for vengeance. Why did George Haines thus seek to link the _Worcester_ with the piracy of the _Speedy Return_? The conversations above reported between the steward and the Wilkies, the Seatons and Wood are exactly as given on the subsequent trial of Captain Green. At that trial the lawyers for Green and the rest of the crew accused with him of the piracy of the _Speedy Return_ and the murder of Drummond, sought to explain Haines’ motive by his love affair with Anne Seaton and his desire to become proprietor of the little Seaton tavern. They also laid much of his talk to the influence of liquor. There is something in both of these arguments, but it is probable that a greater motive than these two dominated him, and that was fear. With the state of the public mind in Scotland in the condition it was about Darien, the _Annandale_, the English and English East Indian traders, it is not unlikely that a notion blew about the water front when the _Worcester_ came in to Leith and was seized that perhaps this was one of the hated East India Company ships, from which it was just a short step to the suspicion that, as such, or at any rate as an Englishman trading in the East Indies, the _Worcester_ _might_ have had a hand in the disappearance of the long overdue _Speedy Return_. Evidently, reasoned the Scotchmen, the _Speedy Return_ has come to harm; nobody would harm a Scotch ship in the Far East but some Englishman; here was an Englishman from the Indies; ergo, he probably had pirated the Scotchman. This thought, more