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`` You 'll see I 'm right , '' he ended with ; `` but I wad like tae ken what way young master is going tae redd it up wi ' the lads o ' Lunda . My word ! he will hae a bourne keschie o ' crabs to sort wi ' them , if he canno ' tell what 's come o ' their maute . '' -LSB- 1 -RSB- While Gibbie had been answering questions and their parents had been talking , Lowrie was fidgeting in his chair , trying to gather courage to tell the yet more startling incident which occurred during the midnight trespass on Trullyabister . At last he managed to say , `` Faither , I never could hae thought that Mr. Neeven was a -- was a bairn-stealer and a wumman-stealer . '' James Harrison stared at his son , as well he might , and one of the older girls cried out , `` What in a ' the world have ye got in your crazy head , Lowrie ? '' Then Lowrie told all he knew about the mother and baby prisoned in the haunted room , and his father listened to the story with a preternatural solemnity of countenance .