She gave a little laugh before she added,
“I was very young at the time, but as it was taken down I remember he said, ‘if those damned Vikings had not carted away all our treasures when the Castle was first built, I would not have to sell this Van Dyck which breaks my heart’.
“‘The Vikings are all dead, Uncle Donald,’ I said to him, ‘and a good thing too,’ your father replied. ‘May they rot in hell where they have undoubtedly taken the treasures they looted from this Castle’.”
The Countess smiled before she finished,
“I have always remembered those words and every time anyone has mentioned the Vikings, I thought of them sitting on the glorious treasures they had carted away from the Castle, although I suspect what they valued far more than the gold goblets were the pretty village girls
