THE
TREASURE
OF THE
ISLE OF MIST
BYW. W. TARN
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1920
Copyright, 1920, by
W. W. TARN
A FAIRY TALE FOR
MY DAUGHTER
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Gift of the Search | 1 |
| II. | The Beginning of Trouble | 14 |
| III. | The Haunted Cave | 31 |
| IV. | The Urchin Vanishes | 47 |
| V. | The Oread | 88 |
| VI. | The King of the Woodcock | 111 |
| VII. | Fiona in the Fairy-World | 131 |
| VIII. | Fiona Finds her Treasure | 181 |
The Treasure of the Isle of Mist
CHAPTER I
THE GIFT OF THE SEARCH
The Student and Fiona lived in a little gray house on the shores of agray sea-loch in the Isle of Mist. The Student was a thin man with astoop to his shoulders, which old Anne MacDermott said came of readingbooks; but really it was because he had been educated at a place wherethis is expected of you. Fiona, when she was doing nothing else, usedto help Anne to keep house, rather jerkily, in the way a learned manmay be supposed to like. She was a long-legged creature of fifteen,[Pg 2]who laughed when her father threatened her with school on themainland, and she had a warm heart and a largish size in shoes.Sometimes they had dinner; sometimes nobody remembered in time, andthey had sunset and salt herrings, with a bowl of glorious yellowcorn-daisies to catch the sunset.
It was Anne who saw the old hawker crossing the field behi