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NOVEMBER 25, 1892.
DONALD ROSS OF HEININ'A.
BY WILMA:A BLACK.
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CHAPTER IT.
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YOUNG DONALD.
(Continued from last week.)
"However, this is my story. One iiLay I
had finished wi' my buainess here, and. had
set out to ride over to Lednaore, when the
toothache came lap my head just terrible,
and I was like to be driven mad. r was
ras.sing Creagan at the time-wherh ye
spoke to James MacDotatde Miss Stanley -
inched, it was at James's house I stopped
and tied up the beast, and went in to riee if
I could not get a drop Of wniekey to pith in
the side of my cheek, for the pain svas jut
fearful. Well, there was nobody in but
James's olcl mother, an old, old womann-she
can hardly move away front the fire -.and.
eays I, ' For God's seke, woman, give me
ecime whiskey to drive away this palm' -.01
course she declared and better declared
there was none in the Lhouse; but at last,
seeing I was neer out cn'eny senses, she hob-
bled away and brought me -what do ye
think i-ri glass of brandy, and fine brandy,
' toe. 'Hallo& i' says I to the old cailleaoh,
when the brandy had burned in my month
j for a while aed the pain was not so bid,
' where did ye gat this the Staff?' WoUld
you believe it? she declared and bettiii• de-
clared that she found it !!ii ind it, woan !
F m
Where did ye find it?' Bit nee, that was
all; she had found it. And than I began
to think. Where was an old woman . like
that to get brandy? So trays I, all of a st4I-
den, This is smuggled staff. Ye need not
deny it; and unless yea tell me instantly
where ye got it, and how ,i, ye got it, the sti-
pervieor will be here tie -morrow morning,
and in twenty-four hours yell be in Ding-
wall jail."
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" Mr. Purdie," field Kathchen, interrupt-
ing, and with rather a cold manner, wee
that your return for the old woman's kind-
ness to you in your trouble ?"
Bat he did not heed the taunt. He was
exulting in his having entrapped hie
teeny.
"She was frightened oat cif he: wits, the
wretched old creature. tDonuil 0g,' she
says -young Donald -4t Was from young
Ross that she got it. And now the cane
W&8. clear enough. I had been suspecting
something of the kind. And here WW1 0
fine come down for the Rosses •of Heintra !
the Rosses of Heimra thatt in former days
made such a flourish at the English Court,
dancing at Almeek's and skelpizig about wi'
Vrince Regent and now the lest of the
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consider. I wish 0 have the thing done be -
caused think it ha right."
".For one inatterr said he, "they will
take it and not tharek you." ,
"1 do not crate iabout that," she made
answer. " We willibee about the thanks,or
no thanks, tater on."
"But there's initrei" said the factor,
rousing himself froni his forced restraint of
manner. "They'll juin, begin to think that
the time for the universal getting of every-
thing for nothing iibas come at last ; and
where will there be no end to their outra-
geous demands ? Thh ignorant creatures!
they do not know what they want ; they're
like children crying for the moon,and they're
encouraged by a set a agitators more igno-
rant than th.ernselvese-people in Parliament,
and out of it that ruiner taw a peat mose,
and don't know the difference between a
hog and a stirk-"
But wait a mornebt, Mr. Pardie,dt said
she, with some touch 8f palm authority. "I
can hardly tell yori yet what I intend to
do I have all kincls-ef inquiries to make.
But every bne ie well enough aware that,
w tever the cause or nausea may be, there'
is great distress anion O crofters -great pov-
• erty-and, naturally, 'discontent, and when
I hear of them almost starving for want of
land -and such immense tracts given over
to deer -1 know that great wrong is being
done. And that is not going to exist where -
ever I have a word -to Say."
"It cannot exist on this eatate,Miss Stan-
ley," the factor said, with confidence. "For
we have not a single acne ot forested land."
" What did I hear ruin brother say, then,
about eleven stags in one eeason'?" she de-
manded. "Why, he asked me to ask him
up here this next autumn for the very pur-
pose of going stalking !"
"Yes, yes, very likeln," grad the Little
Red Dwarf, with the magnanimity born of
superior knowledge. "The fact is that
when the deer begin to get restless, about
the ead of September and the beginning of
October, a few stags andc hinds come wan-,
dering on to our ground, between the Meall-
neFearn and the Corrie Bhresg mostly.
But that is not forest -that is all under
sheep that belongs to Mr. Watson's sheep
farm; the stags the gentlemen get in the
autumn are mere chancre shots; we have
not a bit of foreited land. Indeed, Mies
Stanley, ye'll rarely hear the orofters in any
art of the country ciamoning to have a deer
orest split up among them, They know
ell enough what wretehed and hopeless
led of stuff it is. They're wiser than the
avering folk la PAM:mint, Not no; We
ices off the big arable and pasture farms
ey want. And I can tell ye this," he went
min quite a reesonable way (for young Ross
Heimra was 'off his Mind now), " there's
any a proprietor in the Highlands would
e willing and even glad to break up his
g sheep farms into small holdings, but
where is either landlord or tenant to find
the money to pay •for the housing, and
steading and fencing, and *here is the new
tenant to find stock? To chaoge the croft -
era into small farmers would be a fine thing,
no doubt -an excellent thicig,a great reform,
and it would pay the landlords well if it
were practicable. But how is it practicable?
Before the echeme would work the crofters
would haveeto be given land worth at least
£20 a year, and where is the capital to
come from for stock and steading ?"
Mary -listened, a little uneasily, bet not
much daunted ; for this was merely the
piofeesior.el view; this wan an advocacy of
the existing state of thiuge in this email
posession'of hers that she hoped to amend,
if it was within her power. Nor could she
argue with hirn, seeing she had no facts at
her fingers' ends as yet, or, at least, none
that she could rely on; fol it was,personal
inquiry and observation that this young wo-
mau to trust.
'`If they can make the small crofts pay
-" said she vaguely.
" But they cannot," said he, with south -
country bluntness. "The laud is too poor,
and there are too many of them wanting to
live on it. Over there at Cruegan the
crofters manage to earn a little money by
serving as guiles in the autumn and hiring
their ponies to the sportsmen, and along
the coast here they eke out a living with
the fishing, but they would fairly starve on
the crofts, if that was all. And then be-
sides the poor soil, I do believe they're the
idlest ana laziest crest -tares on God's earth !
I'll undertake to say there has not been a
boat put off from shore this week past,
though there must be ,plenty of stenlook in
the bay--"
But here Kethohen struck in a little in-
dignantly. She had Highland. blood in
her veiee, and she did not like to hear her
countrymen and couotry women traduced by
an Albartach.
"Stenlocile! You Mead big tether," she said.
"But you know very, well, Mr. Purdie,
there is no market for .lythe. They're no
use to send away. But even if they were
-even if there were a market for them -
how could the people get them sent ? How
often does the steamer call in here ?"
"Oh, well, not very often at this time of
the year," he said.
"But how often ?" she persisted.
Oncejin three weeks," said the faotor.
And now it was Mary's turn to interpose,
which. she did eagerly and gladly, for 'she
was ever on the alert for some actual and
definite thing to tackle.
"Oh, really, Mr. Purdie, that is too bad !
How can you expect them to be diligent
with the fishing if the steamer only calls in
once in three weeks? That must be atut
right, and at once !" said she, in her gen-
erous ardor. "1 will appeal to the
Government. 1 will appeal to theTreasury."
"You'd better appeal to Mr. Mac-
Brayne," said Katchen, dryly; and there -
withal that subject was laid aside for the
moment. •
Unfortunately, this reasonable mood on
the part of the Little Red Dwarf -if he
could preperly be called little whose great
breadth of frame caused him to look like a
compressed giant -did not last very long.
His half -smothered hatred of the house of
Heimra broke into flame again; and it is .
possible that a glass of whiskey he took at
the end of dinner'combined with the pre- -
vious sherry,mayhave added fuel to the fire.
"I've warned ye, Miss Stanley, not a
word about the R,oss family or what five
told ye, or about any of your plane' before
that lass Barbara."
"Why this mystery and suspicion ?':
said Mary, with a touch of impatience.
"The girl seems a very obliging and, good-,
natured girl indeed."
"She's a sister o' the head keeper, said
the factor, with a watchful glance towards
the door; "and that scoundrel of ai young
Ross is just hand -in -glove with every man -
jack of them. Do ye think they've got any
eyes in their head if my young gentleman
is after a salmon on the Garra or lying in
wait for a stag in the Corrie Bhreag ? They
would swear themselves black in the face
that they did not see him if he was stand-
ing staring at them within twenty panda !"
' " Very well, then; if you cannot trust
the keepers, why not get others in their
place ?" • she said, promptly. "Not that
I care much about the game. I prose to
give the oroftersabig and little, free right to
trap or snare or shoot all the hares and
rabbits they can get hold of. j do not wish
their little bits of holdings ets.‘ be plundered
by useless beasts. But gronise do no harm ;
and whether my own people come here next
a.utumn, or whetiiii I let the shooting, all
the same there will -be the employment of
gillies' labor and the hiring of the ponies."
"Yes," said the factor. "The only
money that ever finds its way into their
pockets, and yet you'll find the idjute de-
claring among themselves that not a single
stranger should be allowed to come into the
country !"
"That is foolishness," said Mary, calmly.
ti That is the idle talk of people h
o are
poor and suffering, and do not know why
cher's Castorias
al
th
family come down to selliog smuggle._ of
brandy to old women and &oared of crofter i m
and °ottani 1 A fine way Of earning a lit • b
ing ! But it's all he's fit for -an idle ne'ete bi
do-weel, that never did a turn of work in
his life beyond poaching and thieving anti
atirring up ill will behind one's back. But
be even with my gentleinan ! I'll have
the Supervisor of Excise onto him; his fine
little trips to the Channel 1! Islands -I sup-
pose it'sethe Channel Iolanda where you get
brandy for next to nothing4we'll soon put a
atop to them; and when he finds himself be-
fore the sheriff at Dingwall he'll be singing
another tune."
A rep at the door; then Barbara entered,
and the factor looked up quickly and sus-
piciously. But if the tall Highland lass had
been listening, her face said nothing,
"And the young man younipoak of,"Mary
asked, does he live all b'n himself out on
• that island ?"
"It's fit that he should lire by himself,"
said Mr. Purdie, with his eyes beginning to
twinkle fiercely again, for any reference to
this young man seemed to Completely turn
- his head. "He's nothing but a savage -
brought up au a savage among the rocks and
crags, likewild goat, frcim his earliest
years. What else could ye' expect ? Here's
his mother, a proud woman-nproud and vin-
dictive as ever was born -nand she hears
how her husband is gallivanting from this
capital to that, throwing aweiy hie money en
countesses and reftraff-indeed,
there was the one public scandal, but I can-
not give ye .partioulars, Mies Staatfey, the
story is not for a young lad -'s ears at all;
but the mother she determines to go away
and live in that island, and bring her child
Caere ; and there the only two o' them live,
Iike two savages, the laddie !growing up as
a wild goat would,. clambering about the
rocks and the shore and the hills. What
could you expect but that he should turn
• out a poaching, thieving, smuggling rascal,
especially with every man, wencian and child
-in the place -on the main -land here, I mean
-ready to serve him and screen him?
Really, it's a' debasing thing to think of,
such superstition, but these poor ignorant
creatures, a name is enough Or them; any
Ross of Heimra, because ha's a Ross of
Heimra, is a little God Almighty to them;
I think they would perjure their immortal
souls for that impudent and, brazen -faced
young scoundrel out there. Brandy? Oh,
ayenbrandy ! And I dare say, he gets them
tobacco'too and makes a geed profit on't.
For witat else can he live on? Heimra
Island is the last of their pesseusions. If
you go scattering your moneyerne; Italian
counteeses you've got to cut eup estate
and fling it into the market, hit by bit, un-
til you come to the final solid lump of it --
which your uncle bought, Miss Stanley;
and then the deserted wife, left to herself on
that island out there, can live on whelks
and mussels if she likes. Well,a fine,lonely
place to nurse pride! Plenty of time to
think. The great estate gone, her husband
at length dead and buried without ever hav-
ing come near her, and this young whelp to
leak after, a wild goat among the rocks. No
more grandeur now, though at times Lord
This or Lord That, or even a duke or duch-
ess.lwould come in their steam -yacht, or
eered. her preeents of ganie in the autumn.
"Poor woman !" said Mary. 'Is she out
there still."
1` No, leer troubles are over." said the fac-
tor, with some expressiOn of relief. "There's
one the lees for these ignorant, superstitious
creatures hereabouts to fall down and wor-
ship, as if they were golden images. She
died near a year ago, and would ye believe
it, this son o' hers, instead of having her
put into a Christian graveyard, had her
buried. -on the weet coast of the island, up
013 the tap a the cliff, and there's a great
White marble slab there that ye might see
for miles off. A nice kind of thing, that !
Refusing Christian burial for his own moth-
er ! He's just a pagan, neither more nor
less -net wild savage -nearing neither God
nor man -getting drunk every night, be
bound, an that emaggled brandy; and I'm
not sure he would sample to take your life if
he found you in a convenient place. It's a
terrible thing to think of -.a human being
brought up like that, in a country of law
and order and religion. But I've no pity
for him, not one jot ! He and his have
done me sufficient harm; but r11 be even
with him yen -the cheattliegallowe !"
Mary Stanley, though not much of a
coward, seemed to shrink back a little in
unconscious dismay. She had never seen
such venomoue rage working in any human
creature's face; and it was rather an appall-
ing kied of thing. liattpresently Mr. Pur -
die eeemed to recollect himself ; this exhibi-
tion of overmastering hate was not the best
means of propitiating his new mistress, and
soenaking a determined effort to control
himself, and helping himself to another glass
on -sherry at the same time, he proceeded to
talk of business with a certain constrained,
matter-of-fact air.
V' You bald before we came in to dinner,
Miss Stanley," he began, in his slow and de-
liberate way," that you wished fifteen years
of' the dike tax to be remitted and returned
eto the Cruegan crofters. Very well. What-
ever is you pleasure. But have you con-
sidered what the result vvill be ?"
"No," said Mary. "I do not wish to
Children cry for Pit
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they are poor and suffering, And [,for one,
mean ta take no heed of at; though, to be
sure, it would be pleasanter to think I was
a little more welcome. However, about
those keepers. If they do not attend to
their duty, if they lallow poaching, why not
get others in their place?"
"That would be worse," said Mr. Purdie,
emphatically. "The strange keepers would
be helpless; they would be outwitted at
every turn. If ye knew the folk about here
better -their clannishness, their ounning-"
"But are you sure this poaching goes on,
Mr. Purdie,' she interposed, '4' or is it only
guesswork on your 'part? I presume Mr.
ROSS calls himself a gentleman."
'"A gentleman 1' said the factor, with
that malevoleat look coming into his eyes
again. "A gentleman that earns his living
by selling smuggled brandy" to a wheen
crofters 1 A fine gentleman, that ! I sup-
pose when the duke's yacht sails into the
bay, out there, my fine gentleman makes
haste to hide away the bottles and takes
care to say nothing about the five shillings
a, gallon profit 1 Aye. aye, a remarkabie
-change for the great family -no playa.ctor-
ing about with the Prince Regent now, but
selling contraband speerits to a lot of old
women! And snuff, maybe ? And tobacco?
Penny packets !--a, noble trade !" He
laughed aloud to conceal the vehemence of
his hatred. "A fine oome down for high
birth and ancient gentility -buried alive in
an Wand, not -'-daring to show his sheed in
Edinburgh, let alone in London ; his only
companions a wheen thieving gillies and
scringe net fishermen ! But plenty of pride,
all the name. Oh, yes; pride and conceal-
ment, they go together in the Highland
characten Would ye believe it, when he
denied his mother Christian burial and made
the grave up there err the hill, would he put
up a respectable monument, in the ordinary
way, so that people oould see it? No, no ;
it's on the seaward side of the island. Pride
again, ye observe; a scorn of the common
people ; pride and concealment together."
" I should think it was a great deal more
likely," said Kathohen, with some touch of
anger, "that the mother chose where her
own grave was to be." But Mary, with
thoughtful eyes, only said, "Poor woman !"
"Aye, aye, pride enough," continued
Mr. Purdie, in a more triumphant strain.
"But their pride had a famous fall before
your uncle and myself were clone with
them-"
At this Mary started somewhat.
"My uncle ? ' said -she. "Why,.what
Ouse of offence could there have been be-
tween him and them? What injury could
they possibly have done him ?"
" Injury ? Plenty of injury -in stirring
if it comes to that 1' Miss Stanley, your
uncle was not a man to be clefied."
"I know," said Mary,with downoaet face;
she foresaw what was coming -and did not
at all share in the savage glee the factor
was beginning to betray.
" Give them time Mr. Purdie,' says he.
'If I buy a dog, or a horse, or a house, I
can call it by what name 1 please, and so I
can with a piece of water and an old ruin.
But not too much thne, Mr. Purdie-not too
mitchtime. If they have a will of their
own, so have I. If there's to be neither
Loch Stanley nor Gentle' Stanley, I'll make
pretty well sure there will be neither -Loch
Heimra nor Castle Heimra. I'll put an end
to those:Rosses calling themselves after any
part of my propetty: I'll soon wipe out the
last trace of them from the mainland, any-
way, and they're welcome to the island out
there for anything I mind. The seven cen-
turies Of history can follow them across the
water. I've no room for such things on my
estate.' And that's just how it came about,
Miss Stanley. Not one creature in the whet°
of the district but would stick to the old
name -crofter, cotter, shepherd,fieher-laddie
-they were all alike. There was no help
for it. Your uncle wae a determined man.
Any one that contended with him was bound
to get the worst of it; and here he was
dealing with his own. Very well,' said he,
if there's to be no Castle Stenley, I'll take
• care there shall be no Ca,stle Heimra. Mr.
Purdie, get that loch drained of its last drop
of water, and have every atone of the use-
less old ruin hauled to the ground !' And
that's precisely what ye saw this afternoon,
Mitre Seanley "
Her reply sinnewhat astonished the vain-
' glorious factor, who had, perhaps, been ex-
pecting approval.
"It was shamelessly done 1" said she -
but as if she were not addreseing him at all.
And then she rose, and Kate Glendenning
rose also; so that Mr. Purdie practioally
found himself dismissed -or, rather, he dis-
mewed himself, pleading that it was late.
He made some appointment for the next
morning and presently left, do doubt glad
enough to get a chance of lighting his pipe
and having a cemfortable smoke on his way
home to the inn.
When the two girls went into the draw-
ing -room -which was a large hexagonal
room in the tower, with windows looking
north, west and South -they found that the
lamps had not yet been brought in, and also
perceived, to their surprise, that the night
outside had cleared and .was now brilliant
with its thousands of throbbing stars. They
went to one of the windows. The heavily
mei/ping sea was hardly viaible, but the
heavens were' extraordivarily luminous ;
up and rebellion among the tenants, they -were even aware of a puliation of light
It's yourself, Mies Stanley,will find that out
ere long. Oh, yes, watt tall ye come to have
dealings with therm people, ye'll find out
what they are, I'm thinking 1 A stubborn
and stiff-necked race; and cunning as the
very mischief, and revengeful and dark.
But we broke their obstinacy that time ?"
He laughed again -a malignant laugh.
"1 saw Ye noticed it, Miss Stanley, as we
came along this afternoon -the dried-up
place that was once a loch, and the pile of
tones-"
She remembered well enough, and also she
recollected the vicious slash the driver made
at his homes when the factor was grinningly
answering her question.
" Yes ; but I did not quite understand
what it meant," said she.
"I'll just tell ye."
Mn Purdie peered himself out a drop of
whisky -a very little drop-in an inadver-
tent way. There was quite a happy look on
hie face when he began hie tale.
" Aye ; its h fine story when people of
obstinate nature meet their match ; and
your uncle, Miss' Stanley, could hold his
own -when there was proper counsel behind
his back, if I may say so. And what had
Mrs. ROSS and her son to do with anything
on the land ? Heimra Island out there tact
been reserved for them all the way through,
as the estate was going.bit by bit, and when
Lochgarra went as well there was still the
island to presseve the name of the family,
as it were. And was not that enough?
What did they want- what could any one
want -with jLoch Heimra and Castle
Heimra when they had been sold into other
hands? If they wanted the name kept in
perpetuity there was the island -which un-
doubtedly belonged to the Bosses; but the
loch and the castle on the mainland, they
were gone; they had been sold, given up,
cut adrift. And so, says your uncle, "we'll
out adrift the name too, They have their
Heimra Island; that is sufficient ; the loch
and the castle are mine, and that must be
understood by all and suudry.' Natural,
quite natural. Would ye have people giv-
ing themselves a title from things not be-
longing to them at all, but to yea ? And
what was the castle but ar heap off old stonier,
with about six or seven hundred years of in-
famy and bloodshed and cruelty atta,ohed to
it? Aye : they could show a red patch on the
earthen floor of the dungeon that was never
dry summer or winter. Many'the queer
thing took place in that stronghold in the old
days. Well, well,' sive your uncle, `if
they will call themselves " of Heimra," let
it be of Heimra Island. The loch and the
castle are not theirs, lint mine;'and, being
mine, I am going to give my own name to
them. Loch Stanley -Castle Stanley -that's
what they are to be. I'm not going to have
strangers calling therriselvee after my
property. Let them keep the island if they
like-"
" Why, what did it matter ri said Mary.
-"They did not claim either the wane or the
loch. It was merely the old association -
the historical association -and what harm
did that do any one? And an interesting
place like that, that has been in the
possession of the same family for centuriee."
"But surely a man -has the right to do
what he likes with his own ?" said the
Troich Bheao Dhearg, with the corners of
his mouth drawn down and his small eyes
looking forth a challenge. "1 can tell ye,
Miss Stanley, your uncle' was a man net to
be thwarted-"
"1 dare say," eaid Mary coldly.
"Castle Stanley -Loch Stanley -that was
now established ; let them take their tile
from what belonged to them, which was the
island. . Aye; but do ye think the people
about here would follow the change ?' Mr.
Purdie went. on, with something more of
vindictiveness s coming into his tone.
" Would they? Not one o' them, the stubs
born deevils ! There was not an old bed-
ridden woman, there was not a laddie on his
way to school, ye could get to say Castle
Stanley ' or Loch Stanley'; it was Loch
Heimra and Castle Heimra from every one,
and they held on to it as if it had been the
Westmineter Confession of Faith -the dour
and bigoted animals they are ! Even the
very gamekeepere, that ye might think
would be afraid o' losing, their situations,
they are just like the rest, though they .had
their plausible and cunning excuses. Ye
see, Mr. Stanley,' they would say, 'if we
tell the gillies about Castle Stanley they
will think it is Lochgarra House we mean.
And if we send them to Loch Stanleythey
will be going down to the sea -shore. But
well I know svUt was at the back of all
their stubbornness," the factor continued,
with a scowling face.
"Web! I know. It was that idling,
mischievous, thrawn-natured, impudent
ne'er-do-well, egging them on and egging
them on, andkeeping hinnielf in the bank
ground all the time. The dignity of his
family. I suppose that was what he was
after -the old castle and the old name; so
that strangers might think that his mother
and he had still property on the main -land.
And I warned your uncle about it. I warn-
ed'hitn. I told him that as long as that
graceless scoundrel was in the neighborhood
there would be nothing but epite and op-
position on the part of the tenantry. Well,
then,' said he, 'for spite there wili be spite,
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between them and the gray stone terrace
without. Perhaps it was from the blazing
beltof Orion, that hung high above a dark'
headland jutting out towards the west,while
there, also, was the etill more fiery Sirius,
that burnen and palpitated behind the black
birch woods in the south. And they turned
to seek the island of Heimra-out there on
the mystic and sombre plain, under that far
trembling and abiding canopy.
" Well," said Kathchen, with some ve-
hemence of indignation (for her Highland
blood had mounted to her head), "1 know
this, Mary; scapegrace or no scapegrace, if
I were the young fellow living out there, I
know what I should do -I would kill that
factor! Isn't it perfectly clear that it was
he who goaded your uncle into pulling down
the old castle and draining the loch?'
Mary was silent for a second or two. Theft
ehe said, in an absent kind of way:
"There are wrongs and injuries done that
can never be undone. I can never rebuild
Castle Heimra."
CHAPTER III.
THE C1AvE 01' THE CROWING COCK.
Mary Stanley's eyes had not deceived her;
the boat of which she had caught a momen-
tary glimpse was a smart little yacht of
twenty tons or so, that was making in for
Heimra Island, and there were three men
on deck -two redcaps forward, the master
at the helm. This last was a young fellow
of about six -and -twenty, a little -not
much -over middle height, of somewhat
pale complexion, and with singularly
dark eyes and hair. The curious thing
was this -though you could not say
'Wet any of his features were par-
tioularly fine, (except, perhape, hie
coal black eyes, which were clearly capa-
ble of flame, if the occasion demanded), the
general effect of them was striking; they
seemed to convey an impreesion of atrength
-of a certain lazy audacity of strength;
while the forehead revealed by the peaked
cap being pushed earelessly backward de-
noted at once intelligence and resolution.
But, indeed,at this moment the young man's
attitude was one oftmerely quiescent indif-
ference -though there Was an occasional
quick acniutiny of the neighboring comet.
All the graver perils of the voyage were
over • they were running easily before a
steady wind, and they would get safely to
their anchorage ere the light had wholly
died out of the western skies.
"Down foresail !" he called to the men.
For now they were passing a headland that
formed one of two arms encircling a shelter-
ed little bay --a strangely silent and solitary
looking place it seemed in this mysterious
light. Sterile, too; an occasional dark
green pine higher up the cliffs. But at all
events !it Was quiet and still; the watet.
lapped clear and crisp along the shingle
while the murmur of the outer sea was still
everywhere around, and also, on the north-
ern side of the bay, there was a long out -
jutting reef where there was a continuous
surge of white foam over the saw-toothed
edge.
own jib 1" The sound of a human
voice was so strange in this solitude -far
tranger than the mere rattle of blocks and
ackle.
" Main *rhea !"
The twa men cern° aft; the steersman
ammed down his helm; the vessel slowly
ounded into the wind -the boom being
aulei in meanwhile --the main -sail flapping
ud shivering in the light breeze.
"Stand by to let go !" was the next or-
er, and the hands went forward again -the
easel gradually losing the way that was on
er, until she seemed absolutely motionless.
" Let -go!"
There was a splash and a roar that sent a
t ousand shuddering echoes through the
s knee. A heron uttered a hoarse croak
d rose on heavy and slow -fluttering wings
ti make for' some distant shelter. A pair of
d nlins--unseen in the dusk -added their
rill, piping cry. Then all was still again,
a ve for the continual moaning of the surge
or the dietant reef.
"Give us a haul at the topping -lift,
1a1s !" This was the final direction, and
th n with another keen look round the little
b&y, young Rosa of Heimra-or Dormil Og
Vich Ian Tich Ruari, as some were proud to
call him -went down into the cabin to put see.
few th Inge together before going ashore.
f the two sailors now left on deck one
wa a powerfulltebuilt man of about thirty
wi h a close -clipped brown beard, bushy
br wn eyebrows and eyes of clear Celtic
gr y. His name was Kenneth McLeod, but
he was generally known as Coinneach
Br ac -that is to say, _Kenneth of the
Sm Ilpox Marko. His companion was
yo nger than himself -a lad of twenty or
tw -and-twenty: long and loutish of figure,
but a pleasant expression of the face. This
wa Malcolm, or rather Caitlin, as they call-
ed 'him. Probably he had some other
narqa, but It' was never heard of; the long,
lum ish, heevily-shouldered lad, was
altn ly known throughout this neighbor-
hoocl as Calum, or Calum-a-Bhata, Calum of
the Boat.
"It is I who will have a sound sleep this
nigh ,"said he be Gaelic, as be stretched
his 1ands above his 'head and yawned.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Pi cher°. Castoria.
•
IrChronic
Coughs
Persons afflicted with these.or
any throat or lung troubles
should resort to that
Most Excellent Remedy,
Scott's
Emulsion
of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Hypophosphites of Lime and
Soda. No other preparation
effects such cures.
"CAUTION" -Beware of substitutes.
Genuine prepared by Scott & Bowne,
Belleville. Sold by all druggists.
50o. and $1.00.
Do
You
insinimes
Need
MONA -INN
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Wall Paper
--OR-
Window
Shades?
• You will find all grades,
from the cheapest to the
most expensive, fully re-
presented in my stock.
Freizes and Decorations
to match all papers.
Shades mounted on
Hartshorn's Self -Acting
Spring Rollers.
O. W. PAPST, Seaforth.
7 c.,0 pa THE
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Ti'S A POOR KIND OF ECONOMY
It is on a par with buying lots of rubbishy
soap for little money.
Poor soaps are the " bunghole " through
which time and labor are. wasted, and by
which the clothes and hands are ruined.
OAP
T
Closes the Avenues
of Waste and Ruin,
and by its lasting pro-
perties, its wonderful
cleansing powers and
perfect purity, it Saves Time and Labor,
and brings Comfort and Satisfaction to
all who use it.
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TRDE ECONOMY
TO ILLS.F. THE
'Sunlight' -f,R,Y
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WORKS: PT. SUNLIGHT
NEAR BIRKENHEAD
LEVER BROS., LIMITED
TORONTO
STOCK FOR SALE.
The undersigned offers for sale at rock bottom
prices, for the next thirty days, in order to reduce
our stock before going into winter quarters, young
Short Horn bulls, cows and heifers in calf, Leicester
ram and ewe lambs, got by the 1st prize winner at
the To:onto Industrial this year. Choice Berkshires
of both sexes. Lucknow station within three miles.
E. GAUNT & SONS, St. Helen P. 0., Ontario.
1297-tf
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Wellington
GOIN0
Enid .. .
Brussels
Bluevale
Wingharn..
Goner nouns-
Wingham
Bluevale
Bruseels ..
Ethel.........
4. •
, Grey and Brace.
Passenger. Mixed.
3.00 r. m. 9.25 P.m. 9.00 P.M.
8.13 9.45 9.38
8.27 9.52 10.10
8.37 10.02 11.20
Passenger. Mixed.
6.45 a.m.11.20 A. M. 7.25 P.M.
8.65 11.86 7.65
7.10 11.59 8.60
7.22 12.14 9.26
London, Huron- and Bruce,
GOING NORTH -
London, depart
Exeter
Hansen.
Kippen.
Brucefield.
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth.
Beigrave
Wingham arrive
Goma iSourn-
Winghain, depart
• Belrve
Bly
Londesboro
Clinton'
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Passenger.
8.16.4.m. 4.40p.m
9.16 5.46
9.28 6.00
9.84 6.07
9.42 6.17
10.00 6.45
10.19 7.03
10.28 ?.12
10.42 7.26
11.00 7.60
Paosenger
6.48a.m. 8.46P.m.
7.03 4.06
7.16 4.20
7.23 4.28
7.55 4.50
815 5.12
8.24 5.21
8.32 5.80
8.50 5.46
Grand Trunk Railway.
Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton station as
follows:
Gouts Weer- - REAFORTII. Cmpros.
Passenger .. -..- 1.12 P. M. 1.28p. M.
Paeseriger-..P
. ... .. 9.00 r. s. 9.17 . M.
Mixed Train.. ......... 9.20&. M. 10.05A.m
Mixed Train 6.15 r. N. 8.55 P.M.
Goma NAIII-
Passenger. .. ., - - 7.59 A. M. 7.48 A. M.
Paisenger - .: - - 3.00 r. it. 241,. is
Mixed Train.. - - . 5.80p L. 4.55 P. 1f.
Freight Train .. ... - 4.25,. al 8.30P. s
• KIPPEN MILLS.
Always Ready to E, -.1re the Public
by Giving Go. Flour.
JO9T McNEVIN
Begs to inform his friends and the public that he is
again able to give hipersonal attention to business,
and having engag d Mr. John B. Austin, a thor-
oughly oompetent,p tactical miller,he is preparedtodo
GRISTIN AND CHOPPING
On the shortest no ice, ,and most reaeunable terms
:tenet Who mayoall.
"Satisfaction guaranteed every time.
trial solicited. -
JO McNEVIN, Kippen,
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VETERINARY.
TORN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate oil Ontario
a) Veterinary College. All diseases of Doniestic
Animaltreated. Calls promptly attended to and
charges moderate. Vete rinary Dentistry a specialty
Office and residence over W. N. Watson- 'Sewing
Machine Shop, Seaforth. 1112tf
"MANIC S. Beattie, V. S., graduate of °inane Vet
X erinary College, Toronto, Iferr.ber of the Vet
erinary Medical Society, eto., treats all diteases of
the Domesticated Animals. All oath promptly at-
tended to either by day or night. Charges -moder-
ate. Spealal attention given ro veterinary dent.
try. Oftice on Main Stream, Seaforth, one door
south of Eidd's Hardware store. 1112
QEAFOR4H HORSE INFIRMAEY.-Corner el Jars
via and Goderich Streets, next door to tie Pres-
byteriart Church, Seaforth, Ont. • All die.) sea of
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, or any of the do a sticated
animals, successfully treated at tn. in,rinarv or
elsewhere on the shortest notice. eharges ra)der-
ate. JAIiiES W. ELDER, Vetwinary Surgem. P
8.-A Large stock of Ireterirary Medicines Kept con
stantly on hand
LEGAL
flj ID S. HAYS, successor to the late firm of Dickson
& Hays, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary public, &c.
Money to loan. Office-Cardno's block,. Main Street
Seaforth.
1235
HIGGINS & LENAION.
Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public, &c. OffiCeN-
120 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, and Seaforth,
Ontario. Seaforth Office --Whitney's Block, Main
Street. Money to loan. THOMAS MILTON MI0012M.
JAMES LENNON.
1291
it /rATTHEW MORRISON, Walton Insurance
.111 Agent, Commissioner for taking affidavit%
Conveyances, &o. Money to loan at the loweew rates.
M. MoaarsoN, Walton,
T M. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &o
tfig Office -Room, five dools north *mom menial
ntotel, ground Boor, next door to C. L. Papst's
jewelry store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderloh
agents--(ameron, Holt and Cameron. 1216
ri_ARBOW & PROUDPOOT, Barristere,
ic., Goderich, Ontario. J. T. Gas.aos. C.;
W. PILOUDFOOT.
d811
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AMTJION, HOLT & HOLMES, Barristers Se-
t) Honors in Chamery, &c.,Goderich, Om M. 0.
CAMIRON# Q. 0., P/111.13? BOLT, DUDLEY MOINES.
TANZING & 11002T, Barristers, Soiloisors, 0 -on '
elistony, anoem stoosiono. liettourseyIlooriotte si43)efr
JEAlasiliott soorrBlook, Clinton, Ontario. A. ill. Maturate
781
g•••••••,..Im
171 HOL51E8TED, suooessor to the. late 11131
McCaughey es Hohnested, Barrister, So-
Conveyanoer, and Notary. Solioilor ler the -
Canadian Bank of Commerce. Money to lend Perrus
or sale. Ofiloe in Scott's Block, -Maio Street,
eatorth.
CD W. CAMERON SMITH
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BROAD OOT'S
Planing Mill and
fah and Door Factoly,
• sM...eat..H1 1R,T11-1
old and well-known_
nning at full blast, and n w has bett r facilities
Th15 establishmnt is still
ru
than ever before to turn oui a goodarticle for a
moderate price. Sash and d ors of all patterns al-
ways on hand or made to or. er. Lumber dressed on
short notice and In any way desired. All kinds of
lumber for sale on reasonable terms. Stingles kept
constantly on hand. Estim tes for the furniishing
of buildings in whole or in part given on application.
None but the best of tuateri I used and workman-
ship guaranteed. Patronage solicited.
1269 J. H. BitOADFOOT, Seaforth.
J. C. SMITH (!k. CO.,
13.A_INT3KmMS.
A General Banking business transacted.
Farmers' notes discounted.
Drafts bought and sold.
Interest allowed on deposits,
SALE NOTES diecounted, or taken for
collection
OFFICE-Firat door north of Reid &
Wilson's Hard ware Store.
SEAFORTH.
'John S. Porter's
Undertaking and Furni-
ture Emporium,
SEAFORTH, - ONTARIO.
OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION.
Funerals furnished on the shortest notice
and satisfaction gin anteed. A large assort-
ment of Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, &o„
always on hand of the best quality. The best
of Embalming Fluid ased free of charge and
prices the lowest. Fine Hearse. - 1
El. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Real -
once - GODERIOH STREET, directly op- •
osite the Methodist church in the house
formerly occupied by Dr. Scott.
PUBLIC NIOTICE.
The undersigned hereby bega to Notify the citizens
of Seaforth and vicinity that he has opened out a
Renovating Establishment.
ANY ONE IN NEED OF
Clothes Cleaned and Pressed,
Repaired or Dyed
Will do well to give him a trial.
Stains from Oil, Pitch, Tar, Paint or Grease w;11 be
thoroughly removed and nioely pressed up again,
making them look as clean and fresh as when new.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Charges moderate.
Shops and residence' first door nortivof Thos. Kidd's
reeidence, and_opposite S. Dicksons.
1288 tf. J. W. SELL.
OIL CAKE 1
h
Car lots delfred to your nearest
station.
Farmers and Feed ors
Can club together and take a
few tuns each and get rock bottom
prices.
ALFRED BOYD,
1 Wellington Street East,
Toronto.
1294-9
•••
-BARRISTER.
Solicitor of Superm
Superior Court, Comiasioner for
taking Affidavits in the High Court
of Justice, Conveyancer,
Money to Lend
ONTARIO.
HENSALL,
DENTISTRY.
In W. TWEDDLE, Dentist, Office over Hamilton
. & McInnes' Shoe Store, corner Main and John
Streets Seaforth, Ontario. Nitrous Oxide Gas ad-.
ministered for the painless extraction of teeth. 1169
TIR. G. FRANKLIN BELDEN, Dentist. Gas ad-
ministrated for painless extraction of teeth.
Office over Johnson's Hardware Store, Seaforth.
1226
ID AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will
ijr. visit Hens/all at Hodgens' Hotel
• every Monday. 1288
nr KINSMAN, Dentist, L. D S.,
. Exeter, Ont. Will be at Zuriolts
at the Huron Hotel, en the
TIIIMSDATW lACR MONTII, and at
Murdock'e Hotel, liensall, on the FIRS: AND blimp
FRIDAY in each month. Teeth extracted wtth the
least pain poseible. All work Srat-ciass at liberal
rates.
971
TAR. 0. II. INGRA3f, Dentist, (successor to H. L.
Billings), member of the Royal College of Den,
tal Surgeons, Ontario Teeth inserted with or with-
out a plate in gold celluloid or rubber. A safe antes-
thetic given for the painless extraction of teeth.
Office --over O'Neil's bank, Exeter, Ontario. 1204
N. B.-Platee secured firmly in the mouth by
Yemen' Patent Valve.
MONEY TO LOAN.
ONEY TO LOAN.--Sttsight loans at 6 pSr
AU_ cent., with the privilege to harrower of
repaying part of the principal money at any time.
Apply to HOLMESTED, Barrietts, Seaforth.
• MEDICAL.
lAR. C. SHEPPARD, Physician and .Surgeon Bay-
field, Ontario, succeesor to Dr. W. H. Wright.
1225-52
DRS. SCOTT & MAOKAY.
OFFICE, Goderich Street, opposite Methodist
Church, Seaforth. RESIDENCE, next Agricultural
Grounds.
•••••=••••••••••••
J. G. SCOTT, M. D. O. M., (Ann Arbor and Vic-
toria) O. P. S. 0.
C. MACKAY, M. D. O. M.. (Trinity,) F. T. K. at
AL C. P. S. O.
f) 'B. M. D., Physioian, Surgeon and
Accouoher, Constance, Ont. • 1127
Pzuaorr, Brucefield, Licentiate Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Eclin-
gh. Bruceileld, Out.
930
100 W. BRTJCE SMITH, M. D , C. M., Member of
jai. the College of Physicians and Surgeons, &o.,
Seaforth, Ontario. Mee and residents° same se
occupied by Dr. Vercoe.
848
A LEX. BETHUNE, M. D. Fellow of the Royal
IA_ College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston.
Successor to Dr. Mackid. Oflic. lately °coupled
by Dr. Mackid, Main Street Seaforth. Residence-
-Corner of Victoria Square, in house lately occupied
by L. E. Dancey.
1127
AUCTIONEERS.
T P. BRINE, ;Licensed Auctioneer for *ht Coun•
a,) . ty of Huron. Silifs -attended in il parts of
the County. All orders left at Tas EiPosproa
Office will be promptly attended to.
WM. NUOLOY
Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales prompt-
ly attended to, charges moderate and, satisfaction
guaranteed. Orders by mail addressed to Chiselhurst
Post Office or left at his residence, Lot 2, Concession
11, Tnekersinith, will receive prompt attention.
1296-0
W. G. DUFF,
AUCTIONEER FOR THE COUNTY, Conveyancer,
CollectorBook-keeper and Accountant Real Estate,
Life, Accident and Fire Ineurano( Agent; Money to.
Loan, Correspondence, &o. Parties requiring his
services in any of these branches will receive
prompt attention. OPTION IN • DALIT'S Bnoon, (uP
STAIRS), MAIN STRUT, SVPDILT32.
McKillop Directory for 1892.
JON BENNEWIES, Reeve, Brodhagen 'P. 0.
JOHN MORRISON, Deputy Reeve, Winthrop.
DANIEL MANLEY, Councillor, Beechwood.
JAMES EVANS, Councillor, Beechwood,
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, Councillor, Leadbury..
OEN C. MORRISON Clerk, Winthrop.
SOLOMON Y. SHANNON; Treasurer, Winthrop.
WM. EVANS: Assessor, Beeohwood.
CHARLES DODDS, Collector, Seaforth,
R. W. B. SMITE', M. D., Medical Health Officer,
Seaforth.
WM. MeG1VINS, Sanitary Inspector, Leadbury.
HURON AND BRUCE
Loan and Investment
OQMPWY_
This Company is Loaning Money on
Farm Security at lowest Rates
of Interest.
Mortgages Purchased.
SAVINGS BANK BRANCH.
3, 4 and 5 per Cent.Interest Allowed en
Deposits, according to amount and
time left.
OFFICE. -Corner of Market Square and'
North Street, Goderioh.
HORACE HORTON,
MANAGIS)
Cloderich, Auguet 5th,1885.
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