"I shall value it highly, and will promise never to part with it. "Hush!" said she, in a low, but agitated voice; "would you earn this purse?" "I've no objection," replied Blueskin, in a tone intended to be gentle, but which sounded like the murmuring whine of a playful bear. That was the only sound he heard. ” “That brings us back,” said Ann Veronica, “to the mystery. ” “Well?” “Sir John came to me—that you know—and you can guess what I told him.