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FEBRIJA.BY 3, 1893.
411111111INP'
DONALD ROSS OF HEIMRA,
BY WILLIAM BLACK.
CHAPTER XL —CONTINUED.
Mr. Ross," she said, "not there 1" -
and she herself opened the door of the
wagonette for him, no that perforce he had
to take his place beside them. And was
this again (she may have asked herself) the
pride that apes humility ; or was it only
part of his apparent desire to keep a marked
distance between himself and her? She was
vexed with him for causing her this embar-
rassment. He had no right to do such
thivgs. He might be a little more friendly.
She, on her part, had been frank enough in
expretsing her obligationa to him; nay,
she had gone out of her way to ask, in a
kind of fashion, for hie approval. Were all
the advances to come from her side?
Wonders will never cease, truly. That
evening the astounding rumor had found its
way through the length ad breadth of, the
township -there were eye -witnesses who
could teatify-Young Donald of Heimra had
been seen in the sametcarriage s ith the two
ladies from Lochgarra House,
CHAPTER XII.
A CROFTERS' COMMISSION.
One morning Mary Stanley and her com
panion had been away on some distan
errand, and when on their return they came
to the sutnmit of the hill overlooking the
bay, Mari, paused for a moment to tette in
the prospect -the wide, gray, wind-swept
plain of tin sea, the long headland', and the
lonely Heimra Island out in the west. But
Kathchen did not cease her discouree, in
which he was endeavoring to account for
the comparative failure, so far, of her
friend's fine philanthropic echemes.
" The truth is, Mamie,
" said she, " what
has disappointed you here has been the
prevalence of hard facts -very hard facts -
facts as hard as the redo on which the poor
people try td live. You wanted to play the
pain of Lad i Bountiful, and you yourself
are just hill of enthusiasm and generous
emotion and ideals of duty and self-sacrifice,
and -end -romanticism generally, if I may
say so. And for all these qualities you find
no exercise, no outlet. I can imagine you
in very different circumstances -in London,
perhaps i or in some,English village. I can
imagine your going into a squalid room
where there is a poor widow by the bedside
of her dying boy: and the Lady Bountiful
brings little comforts for the sick child, and
words of kindness and consolation for the
mother; and the poor woman looks on you
as an angel, and wOuld kiss the hem of your
gown ; and it's all very pretty and touching.
But you see," continued the practical Kath-
chen, " how you are baffled and thwarted
in this obdurate place, for there ihn't a
single cese of illness in the whole district -
not one -which is, no doubt, owing to the
valuable antiseptic properties of peat
smoke."
"Ob, well," said Mary, cheerfully, as
they went on again, "1 Can put up with
being disappointed on that score -and the
longer the better. Bat, Katbchen, when
you said there was nothing but hard facts
about here -no pretty sentiment and sym-
pathy -you weren't keeping your eyes open.
Look down there at the bridge; what is
that, if not pretty sentiment ?two lovers
talking -why, it is quite a charming pic-
ture !-and isn't there some rustic custom of
pledging troth over a running stream ?"
Her face suddenly grew grave, and Kath-
chen, also regarding those two figures, was
struck by the same surmise.
"It is Mr. Roes, Mamie !" she exclaimed,
in an undertone, though they were still a
long way off.
Mary said nothing. • She walked on calm-
ly and indifferently, sometimee looking up
to the hills, sometimes looking out to
HeimrsIeland and the sea. It was Kath -
(Men, keeping her eyes covertly on those
two figures by the bridge, who observed
that the girl muddenly separatcl herself
from her companion, and disappeared into
the woods by the side of the Garra. As for
Donald Roes he made no sign of going away;
ou the contrary, he remained idling by the
rude stone parapet, occasionally lboking
into the water underneath. And he must
have known that he was intercepting' the
tie) ladies from the Locbgarra Houle -there
was no escape for them.
Mary maintained her perfect self
'tposses-
sion and when they came up to him she was
passing with a little bow of recognition ; but
he spoke.
"1 have a small petition to put before
you," raid he, with a smile. (Kathchen
thought that, though he looked extremely
handsome, this pleasant and familiar smile
was, in the circumstances something of an
impertinence.)
"Indeed," said Mary -and she waited.
"From a very humble petitioner," he
continued (arid Kathchen began to coneider
him a most unabashed young man -so easily
and lightly he spoke), "ono who ha 's no
English, and she has aiked me to interfere
and tell you all about her case. She was
talking to me just now,but when she ceught
sight of you she fled off into the woodh like
a hare."
"Why ?" said Mary, coldly. e
"Because she is afraid of you," said he.
" She thinks you are a friend of the -Troich
Bheitg Dhearg-the Little Red Dwarf -as
they call Mr. Purdie about here; and that
le quite enough to frighten Anna—"
"Anna !". said Mary. "Do you Mean
Anne. Clannach-the half-witted ,girl ?"-
and as she, guessed the eimple and harmless
truth, an indescribable confusion appeared
on her forehead and in the self-consciousness
of her eyes.
" Yee, ' said he, apparently not noticing.
"Anon says that you spoke to her once, but
she has n9 Englieh and could not tell you
anything, and she saw Purdie with you and
ran away. So much I made out, though
she talks rather wildly and mysteriously as
well."
"Oh, but Mr. Ron," said Mary, with
some eagerness, "1 wish you could tell
Anna Clannach that she has no reaeon to be
afraid of me -surely not. Why, she was
the first creature in the place who eeemed
little friendly. Will you tell her I will do
everything for her lean,and that she must
come and see me'and tere will be no fear
of her meeting Mr. Purdie, and Barbara
can be the interpreter between us ?" Will
you tell her that? Could you find her
now ?"
"There's no one in this neighborhood
who could find Anna Clannaoh if she wants
to be hidden," he said, with a bit of a laugh
that showed beautiful teeth -as Kathehen
remarked. "But I shall come across her
some other time, and, of course, if you grant
her i?,etition she must go to you and thank -
you.
"What is her petition ?" said Mary, wine
had recovered from momentary confusion
and was now prepared to be .entirely bland
and magnanimous -which, iudeed, was her
natural mood.
"Well," said he, "Purdie-Mr. Purdie
-has been threatening to have her shut pp
in some asylum for imbeciles--2so they say_
and Anna is iii a great state about the pos-
sibility of her being taken away from among
the people she knows. I don't- think is
true, myself ; indeed, f doubt whether he
could do anything of the kind without the
coneent of her relatives, and she has got
none now; but I am Dot quite sure what
the law is. Anyhow, what I imagine to bn
the case is simply that Mr. Purdie has boon
making use of these threats to spite the
people, with whom Anna Clannach is a
favorite. For she is a general favorite -
there is no harm in the girl—"
"Why, so Barbara said !" Mary ex-
claimed.
"It ia quite true that ehe is rather use-
less about the place," Donald Ross went on.1
"Sometimes they !aive tried her with a bit'
of herding; but then, if she saw a boat out
at sea, she would imagine her mother was
coming back, and she would go away down
to the shore to meet her, and spend her
time in gathering white shells that she
thinks • is money to give to her mother.
Well, you see that is ackward. You couldn't
leave sheep or cows under Anna's care with-
out asking somebody to keep an eye on
Anna hereelf. The truth is, she is useless.
But there's no harin in timeless ; and the
piople are fond of her; there's always a bit
of food, or a corner for her to sleep in, so
that she's not a cost to any one except to
those that are willing to pay it -a mere
trifle -and in any case it does not come out
of Mr. Purdie's pocket-"
"She shall not be shut up in any asylum,
if I have any say in the matter !" Mary in-
terposed, with a touch of indignation.
i• I inked her to stay and appeal to your-
self," he continued. "-But she was fright-
ened of you-"
" Yes, ' said Mary, "every one is fright-
ened of me -or set against me -in this
place !"
"There is another thing I should men-
tion," he proceeded -ignoring this taunt, if
it was meant as a taunt; "the young mrle
and lads about here are not very considerate
if there's any fun going on • and they've
heard of this proposal of Phrdie's, and so
they amuse themselves by telling Anna
Clannach that she is going to be taken away
and shut up in an asylum, and the poor
girl is dreadfully frightened. But if you
assure her that you will not allow Purdie to
do any such thing-"
"Well, of course I will, if you will only
bring her to me I" Raid Mary impetuously.
"Why haven't you brought her to me
before ?"
He hesitated. Then he said:
"I am very much obliged to you. I will
tell Anus Clannach the first time I see her.
Good -morning, Miss Stanley !"
But Mary would not have that; she said
boldly :
"Are you not going down to the village?
-won't you walk with us ?"
Be could hardly refuse the invitation,and
'as they went on towards the little township
what she was Baying in her heart was this :
"Here, you people, all of you, if you are at
your catage doore or working on your
crofts, don't you see this now -that Mr.
Roes of Heimra is walking with me, with
all the world to witness? Do you under-
etand vehat that means? It; is true my
uncle drained Lech Heimra and tore down
Castle Heimra into a heap of rides, and the
Rosen of Heimra, and you also,\ may have
had reason to hate the name of Stanley ; but
look at this -rook at young Donald walking
with me -in a kind of way proclaiming
himself my friend -and consider what that
means. A feud? There is no feud if he
and I say there 'ball be none, I cannot
restore Castle Heimra, but it it within his
power to forgive and to forget."
That is what she is eomewhat proudly
saying to herself as they walked into the
village -past the smithy -past the weaver's
cottage -past the ;school -house-past the
post -office -past the inn and its depend-
encies, and she hoped that every one would
see and reflect. But, of course, she could
not speak in that fashion to Donald Rosa
" You might have told me about Anna,
Clannach before," she said.
"1 did not like to interfere," he made
answer.
" Y.ou seem very seneitive on that point 1"
she retorted.
"Well, it is natural," he said, with some-
thing of reserve, and instinctively she felt
that she could go ne farther in that direct -
tion.
"Are you remaining long on the imaiu-
rd at present ?" she asked, in an ordinary
kind of way.
"Until this afternoon only. I ha11 go
back to Heimra - after the mail -cart has
come in." •
"It must be very lonely out there," she
said, glancing towarde the remote island
among the gray and driven seas.
" It is lonely -now," he said.
And then she hesitated. For he had
never spoken to her of his circumstances in
any way whatever, be had always been so
distant and respectful, and she hardly
knew whether she might venture to betray
any interest. But at length she said :
"1 can very well understand that there
inust be a charm in living all by one's self
in a lonely island like that -for a time, at
least -and yet -yet -it does seem like
throwing away one's opportunities. I think
I should want some definite occupation -
among my fellow-creaturee."
i "Ob yes, no doubt," said he, in no wise
13 eking her timorous suggestion as a re -
roach. "In my own case I could not
eave the island so long as my mother wee
alive ; I never even thought of such a thing;
tic) that being shut up in Eileen Heimra was
pot in the least irksome to me. Not in the
least. She and I were sufficient companions
for each other -anywhere. But now it is
different. Now I am free to look about.
'And I am reading up fcr the Bar as a pre-
iiminary step."
- " Ob, indeed !" said she. Do you meari
to practise as a lawyer ?,'
,
. "No, I think not," he made reply; and
now Kathchen was indeed listening with in-
terest -more interest than she uenally dis-
played over rents and drains and sherilre
decrees. "But being a barrister is a nee.essary qualification for a good many ap-
pointments, and if I were once called to the
Bar I might perhape get some sort of ,post
in one of the colonies."
"In one of the coloniee ?" 'Mary repeated,
"and leave Eilean Heinna forever ?'
, '` Well, I don't know about that," said
he absently. "At all events, I should not
like to part with the island -I mean I
should not like to sell it. It is the last
little bit of a foothold, and the name has
been in our family for a long ,while; and -
there are other associationte No, rather
than sell the bit of an island I think I
should be content to remein a prisoner
'there for the rest of my life. However, all
that is in the air at present," he continued
more lightly, "The main thing is that I
ant not quite so lonely out at Eileen Heimra
as you might imagine -I have my books for
companions anyway."
"Then you are very busy ?" she said
thoughtfully. "1 must not say I am sorry,
and yet I was going to ask you--"
ii I should be very busy indeed," said, he,
"if I could not find time to do anything
for you that you wished me to do." And
here Kethchen said proudly to herself;
"Well, Mamie, and what do you think of
that as a speech for a Highlander ?"
"Ab, but this is something rather seri-
ous," said she. "The fact is, I want to
fortn a little private commission -a com-
mission amoung oureelves-for the resettle-
- ment of the whole estate. I want every
crofter's, case fully investigated -every
grievance, if he has any, inquired into ; all
the rents overhauled and reduced to, what
is quite easy and practicable and just,
and a precentage of the arreare-perhape
all the arrears -cut off, if it is found
desirable. I want to be able to say : 'There
DOW, 1 have done what is fair on my side -
are you going to do what is fair on yours?'
And I have got Mr. Watson to consent to
give up the pasturage of Meall-na-Cruagan,
and that must be valued and taken off his
rent; and when the pasturage is divided
among the Cruagan crofters -oh, well, per-
haps I tha'n't ask them for anything !"
" You eeem to wish to act very genet.-
onitly, by them," said he, with a grave
aim plicity. .
" Oh,I tell you I have plenty of schemer!"
she Enid, half laughing at her own enthus-
iasm. "But I get no sympathy -no en-
couragement. There is Miss Glendinning,
who simply sits and mocks-" '
"Meanie, how catnyou say such things ?"
Kathchen protested --for what would this
handsome young gentleman from Heimra
think of her ?'
"1 have two new hand -looms coming
next week," Mary continued, "and I am
going to send to the Inverness Exhibition,
and to Dudley House if there is another
bazaar held there, and I am going to give
local prizes, too, and I may get over some of
the Herrie people to show them the best
dyes, and so fortb. But all that will take
time, and in the meanwhile I am chiefly
anxious to put myself right with the ten-
ants by means of this commission and
complete revision of the rents. A commie -
Ilion they can trust -formed of people they
know-
" They will be ill to please if, they don't
meet you half -way -and gladly," said young
Ross.
Mary Stanley' e eyes shone with pleasure
at these hopeful words; she had not met
with much encouragement hitherto.
"Does Mr. Watson know Gaelic ?" win
her next question.
"In a kind of a way I should imagine
he said. "He is a south countryman, but
should think he knew as much Gaelic as
was neceesary for his business." -
"And to talk to the people about general
things -about their crops and their rents ?"
ebe inked again.
"In a kind of a way he might."
"But you -you know Gaelic very well ?"
she said.
"I think I may fairly any that i do," he
confessed frankly enough.
"Then," said she, "if you could find the
time, would not that be sufficient to form a
commiesion - Mr; Watson, you and 1?
There would.be no kind of conflicting in-
terests, and we should all want to do what
was equitable and right by the people."
"Oh," said he, in a wondering sort of
way, "there would be only the three -
Mr. Watson, yourself and I ?'
"Mr. Purdie," said she, "would simply
be a kind of clerk-"
And instantly his face changed.
"Mr. Pardie," said he, is coming to
take part in it ?"
"Only as a kind of clerk," she mid,
quickly. "He would merely register our
decision. And of course, he knows the
people and all the circumstances; he could
give us what information we waned, and
we could form our own judgment." -
But there was 'no return to his face of
that sympathetic interest that she had read
there for a brief moment or two. .His man-
ner bap entirely changed, and as they were
now close to Loobgarra House he had to
take hie leave.
"As far as I am concerned, Miss Stan-
ley," said he, "1 would rather leave this
reeettletuent in Mr. Purdie's bands. Inter -
meddlers only make mischief and get little
thanks for their plane."
She was disappointed and hurt, and yet
too proud to appeal further. He bade them
good-bye, a little coldly, as Kathchen
thought, and lift, and Mary Stanley and
her friend went into the house. All that
Mary said wait:
" Well; we must do the best we can -Mr.
Watson'Mr. POrdie and myself. I don't
supposeMr. Watson has any reason to be
stiff-necked and malevolent and revenge-
ful."
A couple of days thereafter Mr. Purdie
arrived, and the Little Red Dwarf appeared
to bear with much equanimity the rating
that Miss Stanley administered to him over
his action in the James Macdonald case.-
" Oh, aye," said he, "Macdonald will
find out now who is Master—the law or
himself. He is the imost ill -conditioned
man in the whole district -an illecondition-
ed, tbrawn, contentious rascal, and the
worst example poesible for his neighbors;
but he'll find out now; he'll find out that
the law is not to be defied with impunity-"
"What do you mean ?" bald she. "1
told you to stop all proceedings."
"1• cannot stop the Procurator -Final,"
said the Troioh Bhearg Dhearg, grimly,
"when he inetitutes a prosecution tor de-
forcement of the Sheriff's officer."
" But, I got the Sheriff's officer to go
away peaceably," she said, "and I told
him that the case would be inquired into."
"Just that," replied Mr. Purdie, with a
certain self-assurance. "But it was not the
business of the Sheriff's officer to enquire
into the case at all. He had merely to exe-
cute the Sheriff's warrant; and in doing that,
as he now declares, he was deforced. Mac-
donald will find out whether he can set the
law at defiance -even with that mischief -
making ne'er-do-well Donald Ross at his
elbow egging him on."
"Mr. Ron did not egg him on," said
Mary Stanley, indignantly, "for I was
there and saw the whole transaction. Mr.
Ross. interferedfor the sake of peace,, or
there would have been murder dose."
" Aye ? And I wonder what right has
Mr. Ross to interfere wi' the Locbgarra ten-
ants !" said Mr. Purdie rather scornfully -
but with an angry light twinkling in hie
small blue eyes.
"Because I atked him," said Mary,
drawing herself up. "And I will ask him
again, when it suits me."
Mr. Purdie said nothing. His heavily
down -drawn mouth was more than usually
dogged in expression, and it was with diffi-
culty Mary extrected from him the infor-
mation that the punishment the Sheriff
would most likely inflict on Macdonald was
a fine of forty shillings, with the alternative
of three weeks' imprisonment.
" I will pay the fine !" said she, promptly.
"1 did not authorize you to have that man
turned out of his croft, and I won't have
any one turned out until I have a thorough
investigationenade and the rents revised and
the arrears cancelled."
But when she proceeded to place before
him the comprehensive project she had
formed -to carry out which he had been
summoned from Inverness --the factor aban-
doned` ehis obstinate attitude and became
almost plaintive.
" Ye'll ruin the estate, Miss Stanley, and
ye'll not make these people one whit more
'contented. Have I not had my experience
of them, years and years before you ever
came to the place? And now that the Land
League is their god, nothing will satisfy
them but getting crofts and forme, arable
land and pasture, all rent free, and the land-
lords taking the first train for the South.
The poor, deluded craytures-if it was not
for their spite and ill -will -one could almost
pity them for what would be the advantage
to them of a lot of useless land, with no
stock to put on it? But maybe they expect
to have the stock bought and given to them
as well -I would not wonder I
There's they, scoundrels in the news-
papers, that do not know the difference be-
tween a barnidoor and a peat !'tack -they've
filled the heads- o' the ignorant craytures
with all kinds of n.onsenee, and they would
have the deer forests divided up --the deer
forests! They might as well try to plough,
sow, and reap the Atlantio-"
"All that does not concern me," she said,
interrupting him without ecruple: " What
does concern me is to have myself put right
in the first piece. That is to say, I wish to
have rents fixed that the people can pay
without getting into arrears -just rents, so
that they can have nu right to complain."
"Aye, and ye'll go on remitting this and
remitting that," said the factor; and if ye
remitted everything they would still grum-
ble! I tell ye, Miss Stanley, I've had ex-
perience, and it's not the way to treat these
people. The more ye give them, the more
they'll ask. What you consider justice
they will consider weakness; they will ex-
pect more and more, and complain if they
do not get it. l'm telling ye tbe truth,
Miss Stanley, about these idle and ill -willed
and ill-thrawn oraytures. What you pro-
pose is not the way to deal wi! them at
"But I propose to take that way, none
the less," said Mary. And Katholien, sit-
ting there and listening and regarding the
Troioh Moog Dhearg, said to herself:
"My good triend, you have tremendous
shoulders and a powerful mouth and sus-
picious and vindictivneyes, but you don't in
the least know with whom you have to do,
Your obstinacy won't answer, and if you
are discreet you will allow it tonsubside."
"1 have done my best for the estate," he
said, with some stiffen,.
• "Yes," said Mary, " no doubt. But
thenthe results that has been arrived at are
not quite satisfactory -according to modern
notions. Perhaps the old way was the
beat; but I am going to try the new, and I
suppose I can do what I like with my own,
as the saying is. And so, Mr. Putdie, I
wish you to go out to -morrow morning and
call on Mr. Watson and give bim my com-
pliments -oh no," she mid, interrupting
herself ; "on second thoughts I will drive
out to Craiglarig youself, for it is a great
favor I have to ask. Will you dine with ue
thie evening, Mr. Purdie ?"
"1 thank ye, but I hope ye'll excuse me,"
said the hinter. "1 havo some various
things to look into; and I'll just give the
evening to them in the inn."
"Then we shall see you in the morn-
ing-" and therewithal the Little Red
Dwell took his departure.
Now, to tell the truth, when the sheep
farmer of Craiglarig was asked _to assist in
this scheme he did not express himself very
hopefullyasto the issue; but he was a
good-natured man, and he said he would
place as much ef hie time at Miss Stanley's
disposal as he reasonably could. And 80
they set to work to revalue the crofts. No
doubt the composition of this amatuer court
might have been impugned, for it consisted
of the owner of the estate, her factor, and
her chief tenant; but then spin Mary con-
stituted herself, from the very outset, the
champion of the occupatate of the smaller
holdings, Mr. Purdie took the side of the
landlords, while Mr. Watson, apart from
his services as inierpreteremaintained a be-
nevolent neutrality. It was slow and not
inspiriting work; for the crofters did not
beem to believe that any amelioration of
their condition was really meant; they
were too afraid to speak or too eullen to
speak; and when they did epeak, in -many
cases their demands were preposterous.
But Mary stuck to her task.
"1 mutt put myeelf right, to begin with,"
she said, as she had said all along. "There-
after we will seed'
And sometimes she would look out to-
wards Heimra Island, and there was a kind
of reproach in her heart. How much easier
would all this have been for them, if only
young Roes had consented to put aside for
the moment that fierce internecine feud
between him and the factor! Was Mr.
Purdie, she asked herself, the sort of man
that Donald Ross of Heimra should raise to
the rank of being his enemy? However,the
days posed, and there was no sign -no
glimmer of thewhite sail of the Sirene corning
from the dientnt shores -no meotion of the
young master having been seen anywhere
on the main -land.
"1 warrant," said Mr. Purdie, when
somoremark chanced to be made, "1 war-
rant I can tell where that cheat -the -gallows
is off to -away to France for more of that
smuggled brandy, so that he can spend his
days and nights in drunkenness and de-
bauchery !"
"You forget, Mr. Purdie," said Kath-
chen, with something very nearly approach-
ing disdain, "that we have made the ac-
quaiu tenets of Mr. Ross, and know some-
thing of himself and his habits,"
"Do ye ?" he said,/ turning upon her. " I
tall ye, ye do not! And a good thing ye do
not ! A smooth-tongued hypocrite -speci-
ous -sly -it is well for ye that ye are ignor-
ant of what that poaching, mischief -making
dare -devil really is; but ye'll find out in
time -yell find out in time."
And indeed it was, not until the self-ap-
pointed commission had done its work, and
Mr. Purdie had gone away to tke south
again, that young Roes of Heimra reiappear-
ed ; he said he had heard of what had been
arranged and he thought Mies Stanley had
been most generous. This casual encounter
took place just as Mary and Kathchen
were nearing Lochgarra House. and when
they had gone inside Kathchen said:
"Well, I don't know what has come over
you, Mamie. You used always to be eo
self -possessed -to seem as if you were -Con-
ferring a favor by merely looking at any
one. And now, when you stand for a few
minutes talking to Mr. Ross, you are quite
nervous and shamefaced -and apparently
anxious for the smallest eign of approval-
" You have far too much imagination,
Kathchen," said Mary, as she went off to
her own room.
And then again that same night Kathchen
was at one of the windows looking out. She
could not distinguish anything, for it was
quite dark; she could only hear the wind.
howling in from the sea.
"Do you know where you should be at
this moment, Mamie?" she said. " You
ought to be going up the grand staircase of
some great opera house -your cloak of crim-
son velvet white furred -the diamonds in
your hair shinieg through your lace hood -
and you should have at least three gentle-
men to escort you to your box, carrying
opera -glasses and flowers. That'e more like
you. And yet here you banish yourself
away to this out -of -the -world place -you
seek fin no amusement -you busy yourself
all day about peats and drains and seed
potatoes, and the highest reward you set be-
fore yourself is to get a half-hearted Thank
you from a aulky crofter-"
"Kathchen," raid Mary, "1 would advise
you to read the third chapter of the &Gen-
eral Epistle of James.'"
"Ah, well," aid Kathchen-and she was
not deeply offended by that hint about the
bridling of the tongue-" wait till your
brother and Mr. Frank Meredyth eome up,
and you'll find them saying the same thing.
Philanthropy is all very well, but you
need not make yourself a white slave." And
then she turned to the black window again
and to her visions. "There is one thing,
Mamie; I wish Mr. Roes could see you go-
ing up that staircase." ,
CHAPTER XIII.
HER GUIST.
"It will be all different now," said Kath -
(then, one evening, when they were come to
within a week of the arrival of Mary's brother
and his friend, Frank Meredyth. "And you
deserve some little rest, Mamie, and nine
little emueement, after all your hard work.
And I want you to be considerate-towarde
Mr. Meredith, I mean. It isn't merely
grouse and grilse that are bringing them•
here. You know what your brother says -
that there is no one in such request for
shooting parties; he could just have his pick
of invitations, all over Scotland, every
autumn; so you may be sure it isn't merely
for the grouse and the salmon fishing he is
coining to a little place like Lochgarra. Oh,
you need not pretend to deny it, Mamie
And all I want is that you should be a little
considerate. He may be very anxious to
have you, and yet not quite so anxious to
take over your hobby as well. He may not
even be interested in the price of home -
k nit ted stookinge."
Mary Stanley did not answer just at once.
The two girls were slowly walking up and
down the stone terrace outside the house.
It was ten o'clock at night; but it was not
yet dark, nor anything approaching to dark.
All the world was of a pale, clear, wan
lilac color; and in this coldly -luminous twi-
light any white object -the front of a cot-
tage, for example, or the little Free Church
building across the bay -appeared startling-
ly distinct. There was an absolute eilence
the sea was stili; two hours ago the sun had
gone down behind what seemed a vast and
motionless lake of molten copper; and now
there was a far-reaching expanse of pearly
gray, with the long headlands and Eileen
(Continued on page 7.
CONSUMERS MAGE C011
HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL.
incorporated by Letters Patent of the
Dominien of Canada, under the " Com-
paules Act,"
CAPITAL, :_$3,000!000.
bin thirty thousand (30,000) Shares of one
hundred dollars each.)
• DIRECTO/IS.
JOHN F. STAIRS, M.P., Halifax, President.
A. W. MORRIS. M.P.P., Montreal, Vies -
President.
EDWARD M. FULTON, Montreal.
Treasurer.
GEORGE STAIRS. Halifax.
JAMES M. WATERBURY, New York.
CHAUNCEY MARSHALL, New Yorkp;
WILLARD P. wurniocic,Enzabetle;
SECRETARY.
CHARLES B. MORRIS. lYfontrealk
BANKERS.
THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMM.
THE UNION BANK OF HALIFAX,
SOLICITORS.
MA.CMASTER dc MCGIBBON, Montreat
rff la=1111.•
The Directors, who are now the owners of
I he entire Capital stock, have decided, at
the request of numerows friends of the
Company throughout Canada, to enlarge
the proprietorship of its stock, and to offer
for sale. at par. ten thousand shares, of one
undred dollars each, fully paid and non-
asseseable.
Payments are to be inzde as follows :-
Flve per cent. on application; fifteen per
cent. on allotment ; twenty per cent. each
in one, two. three and four months from
the date of allotment. Applicants have the
right, to pay in full on allotment.
Applications for shares will be re-
ceived until February 15th, BM. at
any of the °Mem of the Canadian
Bank of Commerce, at the offices of
the -Union <Bank of Halifax, and at
the head ofliee of the company, N. Y.
Life Building, Montreal.
Forms of atpplication for shares may be
obtained at any of the above places, or
thee* will be SIP In by mail On request.:
Should no allotment of stock be made to
y nppiicaut for shares, the amount paid
will be returned in full, and in the event of
t he Directors finding dt impossible to allot
the full number of Shares applied for, the
surplus of the deposit, will be credited -to-
ward the amount payable on allotment.
; The right is reserved of withdrawing the
offer in whole or part at any time before
allotment, and of allotting to any .applie
cant any less number of shares than the
number applied for.
As the dividends of the Company are
payable quarterly, beginning with the first
day of March nextallottees of stock will
be entitled to receive a proportion of the
quarterly dividend as declared, correspond-
ing to the amount paid upon their subscrip-
tion.
It is proposed to apply to the Stock Ex-.
changes of Montreal and Toronto for offi-
cial quotations of the shares of the Com-
pany.
The Consumers Cordage Company was or-
ganized In June, 1890. with a Capital of one
million • dollars, to operate several of the
largest Cordage and Binder Twine Factories
in Canada. It, at first, operated these under
leases, but its operations having been suc-
cessful, the Capital Stock was subsequently
increased to Three Million Dollars, and the
leased properties were purchased.
The Cosspany has no litertsalge
indebteiness ; and, 'Decimals, ts the
law under width it was Ineerporatei
ea, none eaa be eremite* without tho
hell:dgeersall, lirptresonted"411111migat"alanae ellitarin4g'
called for the pimping,.
The pans, has placed in tile naiads of
Re Bankers :-
(a) Full stistements of its.affairs, certified
to by Messrs. Caldwell, Tait it Wilks,
Chartered Accountants.
(b) The following letter from Messrs.
Abbotts, Campbell efc Meredith. advocates,
Montreal, upon the legality of its incorpor-
ation, and the issue of its stock :—
MONTREAL. January 5,1893,
Consumers Cordage Co., Ltd., Montreal l—
GENTLEMEN.—We have examined the
books and documents connected with the
organization of the Consumers Cordage
Company!, Limited. and .are of opinion that
It has been properly incorporated, and
that Its capital stock of $3,000,000, as is-
sued, is fully paid up and non -assessable,
acaticoiredsAct" the provisions of the " Com-
pWe are, yours truly,
tb1gned),ABBOT78,CAMti,DELL&MEREDITIL
(e). A report from I.Afesers. )1Incmaster
and McGibbon, Solicitor; of the Company,
that the titles to its Mills have been duly
exa nil tied. and that no (mourn brances exit.
Applicants for shares rnny examine these
documents, copies of which may be seen at
1 he Company's offices, and at the var:otis
eIlices 01 the Banks mentioned above.
Tlic.Consumers Cordage Company is pro-
bably the :•econd largestiNlanulacturer
Cardage and Binder Twine in the world,
arid c Ini m s the following very niaterial ad -
\ 0\11! its vompelitors :— •
14. Atop ie capital to conduct its busi-
ne:.s which enablez; it :—
(a) 'Iso buy its raw material in Thrger
tai /it i I ie, and at, lower pr'..eps.
On '1"o uNe only the latest and most im-
proved machinery, 1 hus keeping its mills
m 1 he 1111.01e4 state of erne ebcy.
Le(-norny in NO iing and distributing
its mannlael tired product.
Tbe business euyers so wide a 1 errl-
tory (its )natillnletlirett goods go to almost
CV , ry el vihzed country in the world) .tbat
11 cannot be seriously injured by Joeal trou-
bles ;and 11:' i'N;;I 11#161ct in! I.:•tabli:-Itinents
,oseal tered t hi.; 1 ht. dat.ger (51` severe
hy 11:1. isvery slight.
.111, 1,,,e,••er eosc. 011rodttetion.
00. By maintaining the sliarpe$:t compe-
litio:1 11. W# 11 s
#, e% era; 111 I/1::.j1.. is emtbied
l'clet twe in an 1-4C 17(.1.1,
lu (11(11.
(In. Jty spreading its commercial ex-
penses over :# int pill.
.
1#1 r.i''plaeing- in one hand 11:e pow -has -
big of I 11:o.v late-i•tals mei NI:mut:Let ur-
stipplic, for ;be several Alin..., lima se-
st privet..
11 l'.y• nialimeetiiring Jr 1 11n.SelVe5
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Tn,- Company has always found it n its
lo divide :liee,,ouij s el!ecled 1.11
prodr.clion and ate ('111-
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• ha's. 111#, . 1ind 1W1 ler
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any 1110110poly. II} t.:1,•!# :,opi#;?.• 't,111s;.
1:1 1.1lvt. 1: 11a, 1101 1.rt' OrAnn-
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vnaia, above ieferr# d 11,. 1,) 1.:1111 n
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111:111 10 PET Celli. rel-
meols in i heir 13;11,1:1 hands will
and 11)e t cii#,-s believe that protitA
will be 0)alnlainc#1 1 n 1 h., fill Ili 0. :#4 lhe,cost
:1 3&1101 !cm and dislrinutioa :#1mws each
ea r it in a rkea decrea-e,..
The Di d for the year ending.
tet tiro' otter, 11.'52, et int l 1ihe rate of
tiLi percent. Ater :tattle:ea. 1:;e vase
J.4,4.4,1'4444 1r he (I11v3:) .13: ###/tti its 02 -o -
<41t1 1110;a111011 t-ee Di reel ors
in feel to-vim:that qttArterly
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cent. cart be paid intact shoult& the
sp roll tm for the present ear be as
s•zo 05 the oufloole protnixes, /he
final quarter's ctiv;deind inieht 1)8
increased.
Any farther Intorztiallou nitt
bad at the head olelee of the Cong.
parey at iflontreat
W. SOMERVILLE,
Agent G. N. W. Telegraph and Can-
adian Express Companies,
SEAFORTII,
ONT.
Telegraphic connections everywhere. Low rates
on money packages, and remitters guaranteed against
loos. The convenience and safety of our money
order service ix attracting the attention of and pleas-
ing many patrons. Special rates on produce and
aunty. Toronto train service only hours, Eon-
eal hours. 1228
FARMERS,
ATTENTION.
All parties requiring Farm Machin-
ery, Implements and Repairs, would
do well to call at
Hugh Grieve's Wareroom
- -OPPOSITE--
John Dorsey's Blacksmith Shop
Before purchasing elsewhere, as he
keeps repairs for the Massey -Harris,
Patterson, Wisner, Goody, Mason and
Coleman machinery and implements,
and he is also agent for the Bain
wagon, Massey -Harris binder and
mower, drills, rakes, &c; the Coleman
roller and a full stock of Plows con-
stantly on hand.
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The Old Established.
BROADFOOT'S
Planing Mill and
Sash and Door Factory,
BM.A.M-101VTIEL.
This old and well-known evfnblishment is stilt
running at full blast, and now has better facilities
than ever before to turn out a good s,rticie for *
moderate price. Sash and doors of all patterns al.
ways on hand or made to order. Lumber dressed on
short notice and in any way desired. All kinds of
lunaber for sale on reasonable terms. Sbingles kept
constantly on hand. Estimates for the furnishing
of buildings in whole or in part given on application.
None but the best of material used and workman-
ship guaranteed. Patronage solicited.
1289 J. 11. BROADFOOT, Seeforth.
J. C. SMITH &
MEI.A.1\TICMits.
A General Banking business transacted,.
Farmers' notes discounted,
Drafts bought and sold.
Interest allowed on deposits.
SALE NOTES discounted, or tken for
collection
OFFICE -First door north of Reid; &
Wilson's Hardware Store,
SEAFORTH,
John S. Porter's
Undertaking and Furni-
ture Emporium,
SEAFORTR, - ONTARIO.
O'UTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION.
Funerals furnished on the shortest notiee
and satisfaction gut nnteed. A Urge assort-
ment of Caakete, Coffins and Shrouds, &a,
always on hand of the best quality. The hest
of Embalming Fluid deed free of -charge and3
prices the lowest. Fine Hearse.
S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Resiel
posite the Methodist church in the house
dence — GODERICH STREET, directly
formerly occupied by Dr. Scott,
PUBLIC NOTICE,
The undersigned hereby begs to Notify the citizente
of Settforth and vicinity that he has opened out a
Renovating Establishraent,
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 will ho
thoroughly removed and nicely pressed ILD again,
tasking them look as clean and fresh as when New.
Satisfaction guaranteed. • Charge. moderate.
Shops and residence first door north of Thos. Kidd'a
residence,- andiepposite S. Dicksons.
1266 tf. J. W. f3NELL.
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