CHAPTER SIXJulia wrote her letters and was surprised at the number of newspapers that were in circulation in Scotland.
Some of them were weekly magazines that she thought would be just as interested in her story as the daily newspapers should be.
By the time she had finished, The Mermaid had moved out to sea and was rocked by the waves as the Captain made for the town.
However, he brought The Mermaid into a quiet bay just before he reached it.
“We shall stay here for the night,” he said. “I don’t think we will be disturbed. The Scots may be very keen on going by boat, but in my own experience they never have been very good swimmers!”
Julia laughed.
At the same time she was thinking that the people on the island would not be strong enough to swim against the waves and, if the childre
