Red Jack's Daughter Page 25
by Edith Layton
Once out into the day again, he mounted his horse and pointed its head southward, to the coast. For he intended to ride to the shoreline to find a ship to take him to a land of opportunity for a fourth son, to a land where he might make his fortune.
But whatever treasure he found there, he thought as he rode away, it would never match the one that Lord Leith had been gifted with days before, the one he had let slip through his fingers. And humming a sad old song about a wise child that he had once heard, he rode toward the sea.