Rattar

Ormelie and the Thurso fishings; in Dunnet Parish, Rattar, Haland,

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

I had started off, I may say, with a wrong guess: I thought Rattar himself was probably either my employer or acting for my employer, and when I suggested this he told me

Simon 1907

Rattar appeared dimly on the gravel, crossing to the lawn beyond.

Simon 1907

Rattar had advised him to keep away from these parts, and for choice to go abroad.

Simon 1907

Fiscal and assured Mr. Carrington that not only was Mr. Simon himself the most capable and upright of men, but that the firm of Rattar had always conducted its business in a manner that was above reproach.

Simon 1907

He has lost his best client, with whom he was on excellent terms and whose family he had served all his life, and he has now got instead an unsatisfactory young ass whom he suspects, or says he suspects, of murder, and who so loathes Rattar that, as far as I can judge, he will probably take his business away from him.

Simon 1907

You've told me how you caught Rattar lying at the start.

Simon 1907

But I found that old Rattar was wrong on both these points and apparently determined to remain wrong.

Simon 1907

Even in his privileged position as prisoner, Rattar seemed disinclined to have trouble with his formidable ex-client.

Simon 1907

No man knew the house of Rattar throughout its two generations better than Mr. Ison, said Miss Peterkin; and she remembered afterwards that this information seemed to give Mr. Carrington peculiar satisfaction.

Simon 1907