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The Seaforth News, 1933-09-07, Page 6PAGE SIX THE SEAFORTH NEWS, th"e GRAYS That ,afternoon James Moore " and"He'll twist my neck for ire." Andrew would, he knew, he over at "I'll gang reet awa', I warn yo,' IGrammoch town, .and, his work finish- and leave you and yer Wullie to yer ed for the day, he was resolved to lone." The little man '•began to whimper. "It'll brak' yer auld dad's heart, lad," he said. "Nay; yo've ,got none, But 'twill ruin yo', please God. For yo' and yer Wullie'lI get ne'er a soul to work for yo'—yo' cheeseparin', dirty,ton- gued Jew." The little man burst into an agony of affected tears, rocking to and fro, his face in his hands. "Waesucks, Wullie! d'ye hear him? !He's gaein' to 'leave us—the son o' my bosom! my 'Benjamin! my little !Daviel he's •gaein'"awn'!" David turned away sdown the hill; and M'Adam lifted his stricken face and waved a hand at him, ` 'Adieu, dear amiable youth!' " "Wullie and me, we're busy. Ye're to he cried in broken voice; and straight- tak"'em, I tell ye." way set to sobbing again. "P11 not," David replied. "If they 'Half -way down to the Stony Bot - wait for me, they wait till Monday," tom David turned. and with that he left the room. "I'll gie yo' a word o' warnin'," he "I see what 'tis," his father called shouted back. "I'd advise yo' to keep after him, 'she's give ye a tryst at a closer eye to yer Wullie's goings Kenmuir.:Oh, ye randy David!" on, 'specially o' nights, or happen "Yo' tend yo' ,business; I'll tend y.o'll wake toa surprise one mornin"' mine," the boy answered hotly. I In an instant the little man ceased Now it happened that on the previ- his fooling. oils day Maggie had given him a Dhoti "And why that?" he asked, follow- photograph of herself, or, rather, David ing down the trill. had taken it and Maggie had demur -I "I'll tell yo'. When I wak' this red. As he left the room it dropped mornin' I walked to the window, and from his pocket. `He failed to notice what d'yo' think I see ? Why, your his loss, but directly he was gone M2- ''Wullie gollopin' like a goodiun `up Adam pounced on it. I from the Bottom, all' foamin', too, "He! he! 1Vullie, what's this?" hel and red -splashed, as if he'd come giggled, holding the photograph into from the Screes. What had he bin his face. "He! he! it's the jade herself. I war'nt; it's Jezebel!" He peered into the picture. "She kens what's what, I'll tak' oath, Wullie. See her eyes—sae saft and angliahin'; and her lips—such David laughed harshly. lips, Wullie!" He held the picture "Aythe Diller was oat, I'lf go bail, down for the great dog to see: then and yo' may hear o't afore the even', walked out of the room still snigger- ma man," and with that he turned ing, and chucking the face insanely away again. beneath the cardboard chin. tackle :Maggie and 'decide his fate. If she would have him—well, he would go next morning and thank God for it, kneeling beside her in the tinyvil- lage church; if not, he would leave the Grange and all its unhappiness behind, and straightway plunge out into the world, All through a week of stern work he had looked forward to this hard-won half -holiday. 'Therefore, when, as he was breaking off at noon, his father turned to him and said abruptly: "David, ye're to talc' the Cheviot lot o'er to Grammoch-town at once," he answered shortly: "Yo mun tak"'em yo'self, if yo' wish 'em to go to -day." "Na," the little man answered: up to, I'd like to know?" "What slsbuld he be loin'," the lit- tle man replied, "but havin' an eye to the stock? and that when the Killer might be oot." _______Nrermarmwaremernmarammt„ waft THURSDAY, ISEPTEIVLBER 7, ,193. nigh broke .wi' toilin'. Anel the Ter- ror, he stands by and shows his teeth and looks at me as much as to say, 'Some day, by the grace o' goodness, I'llha' my teeth 10 your throat, young :iilaggie's knitting dropped into hes. lap and she looked up, her soft eyes foronce flashing. "It's cruel, David; so 'tisl". She gate lie struggled round. 'By 'Rini that made ye! "ye shall suffer for. this, 'David M'Adam, you and yer u I.But Sa,n'1's big hand descended on his mouth, and he was borne away before that last i11 :word -had flatted yi- to being. CIHIAIPTIEIR XX+I cried. "I wonder yo' bide wi'.him. :If he .treated pie so, I'd no stay anither It was long past dards that night minute. If it meant the House for when M A•clam staggered home. /I'd go," and she look as if she meant A11 that evening at the Sylveslter it, : ,Amens' his _imprecations against David ;David jumped off the table, ' had made even the hardest shudder. 'Han' yo' niver guessed why I /James Moore, Owd Bob,tand`the Dale stop, lass, and me so happy at home?" 'Cup,were for once forgotten as, in he asked eagerly. his pas's'ion, he' cursed his son, Maggie's eyes dropped again, The Dal•esm'en gathered fearfully "Hoo should I know?" she asked away from the little dripping mad- innocently, - man. For'+on'ce these then,` wsham, as "Nor care, neither, I s'pose," he a rule, no such r geyser outbursts said in reproachful accents. "Yo' could quell, were dumib before him; want me to go and leave yo', and go only now and then shooting furtive reet awa'; I 'see hoo 'tis. Yo' wouldna glances in his direction, as though on mind, not yo' if yo' niver was to see the brink of some daring enterprise pose David agin. I niver thowt yo' of which he was the objective, But welly like me, Maggie; and noo I McAdam .noticed no'thin'g, suspected know it." nothing. "YY' silly, lad," the •girl murmured, When, at length, he lunched into lcnitting steadfastly, the kitchen of the Grange, there was "Then yo' do," be cried, triumph- no light and the fire burnt .low. So ant, "I knew yo' did." ,He approach- dank was the room that a white ri- ed close to her allele., his face clouded band of paper pinned,°aa to the table with eager anxiety. escaped his rem'ark. "But .d'yo' like me more'n Just The little man sat dawn ' heavily, likin', Maggie? d'yo" he bent and his clothes still sodden, and resumed. whispered in the little ear. 'his tireless anathema, 'T'he girl cuddled over her work so "I've thoied Mair fra him, Wullie, that he could not see her face. than Aldlani M1Adaan ever thocht to "If yo' won't tell me yo' can show thole' from ony man. And noo it's ,gane me," he coaxed. "There's other things 'Past bearin'. He' struck nte, Wulliel besides words." s'truck his ain father. Ye see it yersel', IHe stood before her, one hand on Wullie. Na, ye werena there, Oh, .gun the chair 'back on either side. She sat ye had but bin, WIullie! Him and his thus, caged between his arms, with madam! But I'll gar him• keit Adam drooping eyes and heightened color. M'Ad'aan. I'1'i stan' nae maid" "Not so close, David, please," she He sprang to his feet, and, reach- begged, fidgeting uneasily; but the re- ing up with trembling hands, pulled quest was unheeded, down the old bele-mouthed blunder- "Db'ee move away a wee," she im- buss that hung above the, mantel- plored. piece. "Not till yo've showed me," he said. "Weil.' mak' an end to't, Wullie, so Daviel, at length, lamely. IAy, ,so ye said. `Sleepin'. it aff';'1 heard ye." Then, 's'til'l i!t the same small voice, plow quivering impercep- tibly, "VIllad ye idblleege me, sir, by ieotira' ,the'la'.uip? Or, d'ye tltinlc, Wul- l!e,"twad- be aollin' Anis dainty 'fingers? They're maii used, I'm told, to dart; derin' wi' the bonnie bro''wn hair o' "I'll not not ha'' ye talk o' ma Maggie so," interposed''. the boy 'p'assiona'tely. •"I -Lis Maggie, Mark ye, Wuid'ie- ,hist 1 't'hoc'ht'twad soon get that far:" "Talc' care, dadl I'll stan' but little /more," the boy warned him in chok- ing voice; and began to trim the lenrp with trembling 'finger's. IM"A'd'am forthwith addressed h'im-. 'self to Red Wall• "I suppose' uo man iver had sic a son as him, 'Wu1111ie. Ye ken what S',ve done for'hiin, an' ye ken .hoo he's re- paid it• He's set Hensel' agin me; he's misca'd.me; he's robbed' me o'. pia 'Clip; last of a'11, he struck; me—struck inc adore thein a', We've toiled' for hint, you and I, Wullie; we've slaved to 'keep hien in hoose an' lame, an' 'he's passedhis time, the while, in r'ioto'us livin', carousin' at Ken{muir,. ,antusin' himself' wi' his—" He broke off short. The lamp was lit, and the strip of paper, pinned on to the table, naked and glaring, caught his eye. "What's this?" he .muttered; and unebosed . the nail that clamped it do'wil. 'This is what he read: ' "A'da'm Mackadam yer warned to mak' an end to yer Red Wull will be best for him and the .Sheep This' is the first yoll have t'wO more the third Will be the last t It was written in pencil, and the only signature was dagger, rudely limned in red. M'Adam read the paper once, twice, thrice. As he slowly assimilated its meaning, the blood faded from his face. He stared at it and still stared, with wh'iten'ing' face and pursed lips. Then he stole a glance at David's broad back, • "What d'ye ken o' this, David?" he sked, at length, in a dry thin voice, eaching •forw'a'rd in his chair. "O' what?" "0' this," holding up the slip. "And e'd obleege me by the truth for nce." . (David turned, took up the paper, read it, and laughed hars'h'ly, "Ilt's room to this, has it?" he said, till laughing, and yet with blanching ce. "Ye ken what it means. T daresay e pit it there; aiblins writ it. Ye'l'l ex - lain it." The little man epoke:in the ante small, even voice, and his eyes ever moved off his son's face, -"Lt's plain as day. Ha'ye no heard," "I've heard:naethin .,i..lt'd likee e truth, David, if ye can tell it." The boy smiled a forced, unnatural mile, looking from his father to the aper in his hand. "Yo' shall have it, but t'o'll not like It's this: Tupper lost a sheep to e +Killer last night" "And what if he did?" The little man rose smoothly' to his meet. Each oticed the o'ther's face—dead-white. "Why, ire—lost—it—on— Wlheer yo' think?" He drawled the +words t, dwelling almost lovingly on each, relentless. we will, aince and for a'!" And he "I canna, 'Davie," she cried with 'hanged the weapon down upon the laughing petulance. table. It lay right athwart that slip of a "Yes, yo' can, lass," still condemning paper, yet the little r "Tek' your hands 'away, then.." man saw it not. "Nay; not- till yo've showed me." Resuming his seat, he prepared to IA pause. wait. His hand sought the pocket of y "Do'ee, Davie,"' she supplicated. And— "Do'ee," he pleaded. She tilted her face provokingly, but her eyes were still down. "It's no manner o' use, Davie," Iss, 'tis," he coaxed, "Nilsen" "Please," A lengthy yause. "Well, then—" She looked up, a: last, shy, trustful, happy; - and the sweet lips were tilted further to meet his. And thus they were situated, lover - like, when a low, rapt voice broke in on them, "A dear-lov'd lad, convenience snug, A treacherous inclination.' Oh, - Wullie, S wus'h you were here 11 was little M'Adam. He was lean - Outside the house he collided As he had foreseen, David found 'ng at the open window, leering at the against David, The boy had missed As atone. But in the heat of his young couple, his eyes puckered, an his treasure and was hurrying back indignation against his father he evil expression on his face. for it. seemed to have forgotten his original The creetical moment! and I inter - What yo' got theer?"he asked Intent, and ins'te'ad poured his latest tore! David, yell never forgie me." suspiciously, trou+hies in to the girl's sympathetic The boy jumped round with an "Only the pictur' o' some randy ear. oath; and Maggie, her face flaming, queen," his father answered, chuck- .'There's but one mon in the world started to her feet, The tone, the ing assay at the inanimate chin. words, the look of the little ratan at he wiles worse nor me," he was "`Gfe it me!" David ordered fierce- saying. It was late in the afternoon, the window were alike insufferable. ly. "It's mine." and he was still inveighing against "Na, na," the little man replied. "Its, his father and his fate. Maggie'sat no for sic douce lads as dear David' in her father's chair by the fire, knit - to ho'ony touch wi' Teddies sic ting; while he lounged .on the kitchen as this."- - table, swinging his longlegs. the boyie it rhe, I tellye, or ,I'11 tak' itl" asked. who may that be?" the girl sed, "Ne, na; it's ma duty as yer dad ""Why, Mr. • Moore, to he sure, and. to keep ye from sic limmers," He Th' Owd TJn, too. He'd do either o' turned, still smiling, to ,Red Well. +hent a mischief if he could," "There ye are,•Wullie!" He threw "But why, David?" she asked anxi the photograph to the dog, "Tear ously. "I'm sure dad niver hurt him, her, Wullie; the .Jezebel I" or ony ither pian for'the matter o' The Tailless Tyke sprang on the that." picture, placed one big paw in the very centre of the face, forcingit into David snold d toward the Dale Cup which rested on the mantelpiece in the muck, and tore a corner off; then silvery majesty:. he chewed the scrap with unctious, "It's yon done it," he said. "And if slobbering gluttony, dropped it, and 3 h' Ovid Un wins agin, as 'win Inc ,;The little man started back, 'butthe tore a fresh piece. will, bless himl why, look out . for iy through.torrent caught hilts and soused David dashed forward, 'me and rata Wullie'; that's all." him ini.full The bucket ensfollowed, "Touch it, if ye dour, ye brute I" Maggie shuddered and thought of struckdihim innl the the chest, anti r h he yelled; but his father seized him the face at the window. ed him over mud. After it with and held him back, a rush .came David " `Me and ma Wullie.' " David con- "I'll let yo' knlptw, spyin' on nue!" "" ''And the dogs o' the street,' " he tinued; "I've had about as much of he, yelled. "I'll---" Maggie, whose quoted. them as I can swaller. It's aye the David turned furiously on him,y face was as white nett- as ft had beep "I've half a mind to brak' fuer wane— Me and ma Wullie,' and.crimson, clung to him, hampering Y 'Wullie and me,' as if I neverput ma .hint. bone in yer 'body!" he shouted, "rob- hand to a. stroke! U hl"— bin' me o' what's mine and throwin' gesture of Ugh!"—he made a '"Orono, David, dad," she in-mks-- bin' to yon :black brute!" Passionate' disgust--"the ed, "He's yer ain dad.' two on 'em fair madden me. I could "I'll diad him! I'll learn him(" h "Whist, David, whist!" soothed the strike the one and throttle t'other," roared little man. `Twos but for yer' ain and he rattled his heels `an' -angrily 'toe- `a d half niengh the window. good yer auld dad did it, 'Twas that they, g y g At the moment Sa'ni 1 Tadd- came he had at heart as he aye has. Rin Hush, David," in floundering furiously round the car- aff wi' ye noo to Ken'muir..S'he'll mak' girl; o' mt n s interposed your nor, closely- followed by "finis it u to , . Y mnaspeak so o'your oar Job, y and p ye, I war'nt. She's •leeberal dad;,its agin the commandments." " • n:.' wi' her.favors, I Hear. Ye've' but to "'Tain't Is her prostrateat shouted agin human nature," le lit theSam'' see whistle and ,she'll come" snapped in answer.g n' form. David seized his father. 'b the , `Why; 'twos nob' ""Hol ho!" went the other two. y but yester' morn he says in his nastly They. picked up the draggled little shoulder,o way, 'David, ma' gran' fellow,' hoo Ye Man and y gie me much more 'o' your work! ye 'stonish 'rte!' And on ma like a thief, a, mat_i on eshe yand sance," he roared., word, Ma "eitherside and "<ggie --,there were tears in a man behind. I'll twist yer neck for yo'!" the great bay's eyes --,"ma back, was As they forced him through the By thunder! I'll teach yo' to come spyin': on me!" roared David, Above him on the mantel -piece blazed the !Shepherd's Trophy. Searching; any missle in his fury. he reached•up a hand for it. "Ay, gie it me back. Ye robbed me o't," the little man cried, holding out his arms as if to receive it. "Dinna, David," pleaded Maggie, 'with restraining hand on her lover's arm, "By bhe Lord! I'll give him Same - thing!" yelled the boy, Close 'by there stood a pail of soapy water. He seiz- ed it, swung it, and slashed' its con- tents at the leering face in the win - his coat,' and fingered tenderly a •o small stone bottle, the fond • compan- ion of his widowhood. He pulled it out, uncorked it, and took a long pull; then placed it an the table by'his s side. fa IGradually the gray head lolled; the shrivelled hand dropped and hung y limply dawn, the finger-tips brushing p the floor; and he dozed off into a heavy sleep, while Red Wull watched at his feet, I1 was not till an hour later that David returned home, As he approached the lightless house, standing in the darkness like a 's body with the spirit fled, he could but p contrast.: this dreary home of his with the bright `kitchen and cheery faces he had left, 'Entering the' house, he groped to the kitchen 'cloor and opened 'it; then struck a match and stood in the doorway peering in. "Nat home, ,bain't he!". he mutter- ed, the tiny light above Alis' head, "Wet inside as well a's oot by poo, 111 lay. By gum' but 'twas a lucky thing for him I didna get ma hand on him this 'evenin'. I could ha' killed hint," He held the match above his head. th it. th 11 Ou "Where? "On—the—Red—Screes." The crash was canting -inevitable now. Dlavid knew it, knew that noth- ing could avert it, and braced himself 'to meet it, The smilehad fled from Two yellow eyes, glowing in the his face, and his 'breath 'fluttered' in darkness like cairngorms, and a small his throat •like the wind before a than- dim (figure bunched up in a chair, told derstorin. him his surmise was wrong. Many a What of it?" The little man's voice time had he seen his father in such a was calm as a summer sea. "Why, your W+ullie—as I told yo'— "Go'on,:Devnd: "was on the Screes last night." "And this," holding up thepaper, Then he saw his mistake. The hand 'tells you that they ken as I ken noo, that hung over the floor twitched and as maist o' then, ha' knit this many a was still again. day, that your 'Wullie, Red Wull—the There was a clammy silence. A ,Terror--" mouse, emboldened by the quiet, "Go on." scuttled across the hearth. One "Is—" ntighity paw lightly moved; a light- "Yes." ming tap, and the tiny beast lay' dead. .Again that hollow stillness: no sound, no movement; only those two unlwinking eyes fixed on him immov- able. At length a small voice from the +fireside broke the quiet, "Drunk—the—leetle—swab l" 'Again a Mammy silence, and a life- long pause. I thowt yo' was sleepin;" said case before, and now he muttered con. te'in'p'tuously: "Drunk; the leetle swab) Sleepin' it off, I reck'n." "The Black Killer." 'Pt was spoken. The frayed string was 'snapped at last. The little snan's hand flashed to the bottle that stood before him, "Ye'-ald'ar!" he s'hrieked, and threw it with all his strength at the boy's head. 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