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The Seaforth News, 1937-04-01, Page 6,RGI sax. THE SEAFORTH NEWS THURSDAY, AP.R'IL 1, 1937 "IGod •bless Inc!' Mr. Hodson was driven to exclaim at Last, "what is a man of your ability doing in a place like this? !America—where a young fellow with his twits about hint can push himself forward?" "1 would rather be "where the dun deer lie,?" said he. with a kind of bashful laugh. "You read 'Kingsley?" the other said, still marc astonished. "My brother lends' me his books 'from time to timer' Ronald said, mod- estly, 'He's a Free C•iturch minister in Glasgow," aA .Free Church minister? lie trent through college, then?" 'Wes sir; he took his degree at Ab- erdeen." "Buts -but," said the new -comer- ---who had come upon a state of af- fairs he could nal understand at all— "who was your father, thea? He sent your brother to college, I presume?" 'Oh. no sir. My father is a small farmer down the Lammermuir way; and •he just gave my brother Andrew his wages like the rest, and Andrew saved up for the classes." "You are not a highlander, then?" "But half-and-half, like my name, sir," he said, .(and all the shyness was gone now•; he spoke to this stranger frankly and simply, as he would have spoken to a shepherd on the hillside), "My mother was Highland. She was a Macdonald; and so she •would have called me Ronald; it's _ .a common name tri' them." .Jr. Hodson stared at hint for a second or two in silence. "Weil," said he, slowly, 't4 don't know. Different men have different ways of looking at things, d think if I tvere your age, and had your Intel- lingence, I would try for something better than .being a game -keeper." "I am very ,well content, sir." said the other, placidly "and I eouldna be more than that anywhere else. 'It's a healthy life; and a healthy life is the best of anything --at least that is my ..vay of thinking. I wadna like to try the wan; 1 doubt it wouldna 'gree wi' me," Anil then he rose to his feet. "I beg your pardon, sir: I've been keep- ing ye Late." \\'cid," \1r, 'Hodson said, nothing loath to let him go; for although he had arrived at the conviction that here was a valuable htmtan life, of exceptional quality and distinction, being •l.teing absolutely thrown away and wasted, still he had not formed the arguments by which he might try to save it for the .general good, and for the particular good of the palm.: matt himself. ile wanted time to think ov- er this matter—and itt cool Mood; for there is no doubt that he had been Surprise'} tuul fascinated by the intel- ieetnal boldness and incisiveness of the younger man's opinion,, and by the chance sarcasms that had escaped Jtim. 'I could get him It toad opening in Chicago anon month" he wits think- ing do .himself, when the keeper had left, ''but upon my semi I don't know the ural that is tit to ,become that mates master. \\'lay. I'd start a news- paper For hint myself, and stake ]aim editor—and if he can't write, he has got mother wit enough to guide them that car -but he and 1 world be quarrelling in a week. That fellow is not to be driven .by anybody." He now rang the bell for a caudle, and the slim and yellow -haired :delay showed hint upstairs to 'his room., which he found to he comfortably warns, for there was a blaring peat fire in ithe.grate, sc'en'ting all the air with its delicious odor. He bade her good -night, and turned to open his alressing bag; but at the same nutm- eat he heard voices without, and. be- ing of aninquiring turn of mind, he went to the window. The first thing he saw was that outside a beautiful clear moonlight was now shining, the. leafless elm -trees and the it:ea'vy-foli- aged pines throwing shanp black sha- dows across the white roar!, .And this laughing and jesting at the floor of the inn? Surely he heart) 'Ronaid's voice there—the gayest of any—am- ong the gibes that scented to form rto • Great he•I•tc�tv!'9s4ei 1 RISAII 1111 to himself, "rich a voice—and all Eu- rope waiting Inc a new tenor! But at seven or eight and twenty I suppose he is beyond training," The refrain became more and more distant: "•\\'hen the kye coupe haute,. \\'hen the kye come haute, "I'w•mst the glnctntin' and the mirk, \\'hen the kye come Mune," Roth the keeper and the little trot- ting terrier had 1i,appcared now, hav- ing turned ;t Corner of the road where there was a dump of tree;, 'l'lte trav- eler who had wandered into these re- mote wilds sat down fora minute nr two to ,ant up his inu•-tigatinn, of the reining, and they were those: ':Acco tint: of the deer scent .haiku; but there tray hare been had shunt- ing this last year, as he says. The sal- mon -fishing sounds More likely: and then Carry could conte with us in elle itoat, which would make it less dull for her. \ny haw, I have discovered the most remarkable man I have stet with as yet in the old country: and to think of his being throw array like thati" ('Hf4Y1'Eiil TI \\'e stay now follow Ronald Strang .a, he walks along to his cottage.. .t hie h, with lth it, kennels told its ,hail 4n• hanging up the slain deet, stand, on a little plateau by the roar! -side, a short distance front the iota. The moonlight nigltt 1s white and heanti- ful, hut far iron' 'lienar for the gold- en plover are whistling mil calling ,loan the 1 ,eh nide, ;and the snipe are setuliug their melon. harsh note ar- s the ntnorlaud water.. \loreover, 17t himself ,rears to .lie in a gay mood ri't•rliatln glad to he over the mbar- rn.smeltt of a first meeting with tate s rutderl, and he i.: conversing am- icably with his little terrier. '?'Ito gub- iart is rat. \Vliethn•r Itt, wise little Harry knows all that i, -aid need not ho determined: haat he looks up from time to time and wags 'lei, stroll() of a tail as he trot: placidly along. .1ntl so they gel tap to the cottage and enter, Inc the outer door is on the latch, thieves are being unheard of in this remote neighborhood; though here Harry hesitate., for he is uncertain whether he is to he invited into the parlor or not. But the next moment all consideration of this four -footed friend is striven out of his master's head. Ronald had expected to find the parlor em•pty,•.arid has little sister, at present his sole housekeeper, retired to rest. But the moment he opens the door he finds that not only is site there, .sitting by the fable near to the solitary lamp, but that site bass a com- pattinn with her. \ nd well he .knows who that mut be. "?)ear tate Miss I).ougla:s1" he ex- claimed, "'hate T kept you so late?" The young lady, who now rose, with some thing of a flush over her features --for she had been startled by his sudden entrance—was certainly an extraordinarily pretty creature: not much handsome, or distinguished, their farewells for the night? Then ,here was the shutting of a door; and in the silence that ensued he sate the solitary, straight -limbed, dean -made figureof a man stride top tite white road, a little dog trotting behind him. "Come along, Harry, my lad," tite nt'au said to his small companion, and that, sure enough, has the 'keeper's voice: And then, in the stillness of r the moonlight night, this watcher and lis- tener was startled to he)tr a clear and powerful tenor voice suddenly begin to sing—in a careless fashion, in is true, as if it were but to cheer the homeward -going. " Come, all ye jolly shepherds That whistle through the glen, I'll tell ye of a secret That courtiers dinna ken; \\'hat is the greatest bliss That elle tongue ti titan can name?— "Cis to woo a bonnie lassie \\'then. the .kye come haute." or .striking, as altogether pretty and winning .and gentle -looking, She was obviously of a pure 'Highland type: he figure slender and •graeeftul, the head small and beautifully 'formed; he forehead rather square .for •a wo- nan, .but getting its proper curve ;rout the soft andpretty hair; the fea- tures refined and intelligent; the mouth sensitive; the expression a cur - lona sort 01 seeking to please, as it were, and ready to form itself inti an tiiund'ant gratitude Inc the smallest act of kindness, 011 course much of this look twat mvin:tr to her eyes, ,:hich were the true Highland eyes; of a blue -gray these were, with some- what dark lashes; wide apart and shy incl apprehensive, they rentiti(led one of the startled eyes of some wild firth mal; 'hut they were entirely !inmate in their quick sympathy, iii their gentle- ness, in their appealto all the world, ,s it were, for a favoring worst, As for her voice—w'e'll, if she used but few of the ordinary Highland phrases, site had undoubtedly a considerable trace of Highland accent; for, although •iter Sather was an Edinburgh man, 'het mother (as the elderly lady very soot let her neighbors know) was one o the Stuarts of 'G'leuigask acrd Orosay' and then again Meenie diad lived n•ea:r Iy all her life in the `Highlands, her father never having risen above the position of a parish doctor. and wel- coming even such local removals :ts served no improve his position itt how ever slight a way. "`Maggie," 'said bliss Douglas (ani the beautiful wide -apart eyes were hill of a shy apology) "was feeling a little lonely, and. 1 did not like to leave her." "Batt if 1 had known," said he, " would not have staid so fate. That gentleman ghat is corm about th shooting is a curious mean; it's no tit • salmon and the grouse and the deer he wants to ‘know about only; it's ev erythin;g in the. country, 'Now, ?i1 tg- gie lass, get yet to bed, IAnd 1 will see yntt down the road, Miss Doug- las," 'I inked there is no need for that,' said Meenic with downcast eyes. "\Vnuld ye have a 'bogie run awe • wish ye?" be said, good-naturedly. .And ss. site 'bade good -night to the little \lagg•de, and took up cont • books and dran ing • she had .brought Ito beguile the time withal; and the 1 she %vent cut into the clear night, fol- lowed by the young gamekeeper. "no sure I'm much obliged to ye, \d itt d)onglas," was the respectft I answer, "for the trouble ye sake wit t her. It's an 'wkward thing, to be .,a' bar from .school. 1'nt thin king ,1' I have to send her to my ,brother in Glasgow, and get her put to school there." -Oh, indeed, indeed," said she, 'that tall he a change, non', -\ nil nho Took after the untag,' for you, Ronal,!?" She aridres eat him :bus quite ns.( orally. IOU! nithnnt Shyness: for nit one ever dreamed of calling him any- thing else "Well, I snppn t Mrs. 3! Crcgo• trill give the plata a redd tap Getting to rights front time to time, But a keeper has but half learned his bitti- nc+s that canna shift for himself (here's sante of the up -conn try lodge, with ne're a woman -body within dozen utiles o' them." "It is vitae brother the tninisict that :Maggie will be going to?" .ht said. "i)It, ye.; he 1 married, and has t family of his own( she will be eons fortabit• there," "Well, it is strange," said 'site, "that vet should bane a hrnther in d;las .tow and 1 a sister, and that your mo- ther should be itt Highland and taint too." lint this. it putting- himself' and her on much too common a footing; and ire w•ai, always on Iii; gnarl against that, however Inc her tiennle- nt as and gond-nature ntigitt lead her. "'When i; your father enmiltg hack. :Mks Douglas?" said he, "Well, 1 really do not know," she said. "I do not think he has ever had so tvirle a district to attend to. and we are never pure of Itis being at haute." t must be jery lonely for a young, lady brought tap like yon," he ventur- ed to say, "that ye should have no companions, .?ltd for your mother, ton; l 'wonder she van stand it." "O'h no, \lee me ,aid; "'for the people are so friendly with us, And I do not know of any place that, 1 like. better," Ry this time they were, come to the little wooden gate of the garden, and he opened that for her. Before Iltem uis the cottage, with its windows, de- portio') of the a'lflatns of a Bttr:n's, rite the moonlight on the panes, a blothertec'Il, ar a 7"an•nah.i'1'1, are goer. dined away from their •lawftit em- ployment, gain a fleeting popularity` in their native village, perhaps attain.: to the dignity of a notice in, a 'Glas-. gow or Esliniburgh newspaper, and subsequently and almost inevitably' die of drink itt the most abject mis- ery- of disappointin ent• No; if he hail any ambition, it was not in that dir- ection; it was rather that he :should be known as the smartest ;leer -stalk - been shut in when they left. Be also ler 'and the best trainer of dogs itt discovered, when they got home, that his sister Maggie had been 'so intent puzzilittg over some arithmetical mys- teries than Sdeeni•e.had 'been explain- ing to her that she had still further delayed going to bed. "'W'hat, wwitat. said he, good-thuan- °redly, "not in bed yet, lass?" "Well, 1 don't know how 11 is, Ronald," the little girl said; and she rose with a sigh, and gathered up her, belongings. "When Meenie takes the hook everything's ;quite clear, and when she's away, 1 canna make it out at a"' •'\\'ell, off wi' ye now, 'Pass, and sleep over it; if 1 catch ye waiting up for me again yell get a tallcin'g." The little red-headed, 'freckle -faced lassie was standing at the door hesi- tating. -Ronald," said she, timidly, "wiry clo ye call Meenie ,t\hiss Douglas?' It's no friendly." ' "'When ye're a bin older, lass, yell understand," ire said, with a laugh. The little girl was distressed in a vague way, inc she lad formed a warm affection .for 'Meenie Douglas, and it seemed Imard and strange that her own brother should shote himself so distant in manner, ' And .what a night it was—or rather, might have been—for two ?'overs! Tile wide waters ,df the lo'c,lt lay still and smooth, with a 'broad pathwvay of silver stretching away into the dusk Of the eastern Stills; not a breath Of wind. stirred 'bush or .tree; and if Ben C'le'brig !n the south was mostly a balk of shadow, far tttway before 'them in the ;northern skies rose the great shou'ld'ers of Ben Loyal, pal11'! in the moonlight. the hatches of 'snowy showing white up near the stars. 'I'Itey 'had left 'behind them the little haml'e't, which merely consisted of a few cottages and the inn; they were alone in this pale, silent tvorlrl. And down there, beneath the little bridge, ran the 'placid Muria] water: and if they had a Bible with them?— and 'would stand each on one side of the stream? ---and 'clasp hands across? It wtis a night for lovers' .vows, "Maggie is getting on well with iter lesson, the pretty young lady said, in that gentle voice of iters, "She is very diligent." "1)n you think she;, proudInc she's 1101 that," the little girl made bold to say. "Hire ye never heard o' :the Stu- arts of Glengask?" said he; and he added, gristly: "My eretes, if ye were two or three years older, I'm think- ing :Mrs. Douglas would have told ye ere naw lion- Sir :\lex atides used an call on them in Edinburgh every time he carte north, \lost, folk have heard that story, But however, when \lem- ie, as ye like to call her, goes to live in Edinburgh or Glasgow, or some u' the big towns, of coarse .she'll be i)ouglas to every one, as she ought to he here, only that she's ta- ken a fancy :to you, and, my lass, fairly .spoils ye with her kindness. But at this moment, as he turned Now', off with ye, and (Ilona fish your over this mass of scraps anal frag- head about what 1 or any one else stents, there was one , much more is to you, ye should be proud en- in search of, and when he found it calls her; if she's content to be \leen- audacious than Elie rest, that he west ouglt." whimsical fancy got into his head. If As ,,ono as she was gone he stir- he were to .make out a fair copy of red up the ;teats. lit his pipe, and the roughly scrawled lines, and fold drew in a chair to the small table that up, and address it to \scenic. near the tire, 41 was his first pipe hist to •see hots it looked so? Re tool: that evening, and he wished to have out his blotting -pad, and selected the it in comfort, ,And then, to Bass the hest sheet 01 note -paper he could tion•, he unlocked and opened n find; and theta he wrote (with a clrttwes in the table, turd began to touch of amusement, and perhaps c, rummage through the papers collect- something else, too, in his mind, the cd there all .lauds of shreds and voile) thus; fragments they were, scored over amostly in pencil, and many of them bearing marks as ii the writing had been done outside in the rain. The fact was that in idle times, when there was no trapping to be done, or shooting of hnodie-crows, or breaking in of y ough clogs. ite would while away maty an hour on the hillside or ,along the shares of the loch by stringing verses together, Tit(•y were done for alttlt,Cntent's sake. Sometimes he ,lotted them down, sometimes Ite did not. If oc- casionally w'•hen he hacf to write a letter to a friend of his at 'Tongue, or make some request of his •brother in Glasgow, he part 'these- epistles into jingling rhyme, that was about all the publication his poetical efforts ever achieved. and the etas most particular to conceal Froin the 'gentry' who canoe down to the shooting any knowledge that he scribbled a't all. lHe knew it would he against hint. 1 -Te lead no wish to (figure as one of those local poets I(asyd alas! they have been and are too numerous in Stcnitland) who, fording within thein some small Su therl'andshire, He 'knew where his strength lay, and where 'he found coutettt _And theta there was another reason why he. could not court news- papers applause .with these idle rhymes .of his. They were nearly all about Meenie Douglas, 'Meenieolatry was'written all across those scribbled sheets. IAatd of course that was a Clark ;secret .known only to himself; and indeed it amused hint, as he turn - ed. over the loose lca.ves, to think that all the Stuarts of G'lengastk and Oro- say land that most severe and ter- rible of them all, 'albs. Douglas) could not in the least preve'n't his saying to Meenie just whatever Ire pleased—with in tate wooden confines of 'his drawer, And what had he not said? Sometimes it .vas 'hint a bit of careless singing: "Roses white, roses red, (Roses in the lane, 'Pell me, noses red and white, Where is Meenie ,gene? "0 is she on 'L'och Loyal's side, Or up by Mudal Water? In vain the wild cloves itt the woods 'Every where have sought her, "Roses 'w'hite, .roses red, ?Roses in the l'an'e, Tell are, roses red and white, Where is Meenie !gave?" \Veil, now, supposing you are far away up on Ben 'Clebrig's slopes, a guns over your shoulder, and idly loo'Icing osnt for a white hare or a ptarmigan, and if you take to hung-, ming these careless .rhymes to some such tune as "Cherry 'Ripe," wito is to hinder? The strongest of ail the south wind's cannot canny the tidings to ICdletigavk, nor yet Ito 01 -say's shores, And so the whole country- side—every hill and stream and wootl tura rock --cane to be associated with :%1 colic, and saturated with the praise and glory of her. Why, he made the very mountains 'fight about Iter) "Ben Loyal spake to Ben Clebrig, And they thundered their note of war: "You look down on your sheep and your. sheep -folds; I see the .ocean afar, "'You look down on the huts and .the hamlets, ,And the trivial tasks of men; I' see the great ships sailing Along the northern main.' "Ben Slcbrig laughed, and the laughter iS•hook heaven and earth and sea; "('here is something in that small hamlet That is fair enough for me— "'Ay, fairer than all your sailing ships Stack with the morning flame; A fresh young Hower from the hand of It ori -- Rose \I:eenie i, her nantel' PROFESSIONAL CARDS Medical DIR. E. tA. Mcis1iA5'T1lBR-;Grad:uate of the Faculty of Medicine, Univers- ity of Toronto, and of the New York Post 'Gradua'te School and Hospital. Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office on 1-1igh street. Phone 27, Office fully equipped for x-ray diagnosis and for ultra s'h'ort wave electric treatment, ultra vio'le't sun lamp .treatment and infra red electric treatment. Nurse in attendance. showing the neat red blinds within, She cavo hint her hand for a second t;noel night. Ronald," said she; pleasantly. Good night Miss 19oitRlas. ,ail he \laggie must not keep you up so late again," And therewith he walked bark. again along the white road, and only now perceived that by same accident his faithful companion Harry had "(1 wilt thou be my dear love? 1 \1eenic and Meenie/— .0 wilt thou be my ain love? (\1y sweet Meenie). "Were you wi' me upon the hill, 11's 1 would gtir the dogs be still, \Ve'erl lie our lane and kiss our fall, tAly love Meenie). "Abomt the burn a wild bush grow, (7!eertie and \feeie), Arid on the .bush there blooms a rose (7lt street Meenie); And wad ye tak the rose free me, And wear it where it fain would be. 1l's to your arms that 1 would flee t Rose -sweet Meenie), 1 -le carefully folded the paper, and <tdalrestsed it .outside, so: "Miss Wml'helinina Stuart D'ou'glas, "Miss Wilhelmina Stuart Douglas, Care of James Douglas, Esq„ Iver-Mudal. Sutherlandsltire." And then he heli) it out at al -oft: - length and regarded it, and laughed in a contemptuous kind of way tat itis own 'folly, "Well," lie was 't'hinking to himself, If it were not for Stuart of IGlentossic T stippose the day might conte when I could send her a letter titre that; but as it is if they were to hear of any such madness, IClenga.sdr and all his (cath and Iden would be for setting the heather on ifa•e." ;Tie tossed the letterbads: on, .di 1Iottif g -pad, a111 rose and went and stood opposite the b'laz'ing . petits, This movement aroused the attention of the little terrier, who immediately DR, GILB'EIRT C. JARROTT -- Graduate Graduate of 'Faoudty of Medicine, Un- iversity of Western Ontario, Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, 'Office 413 Go•derich street West. Prone '317. Hours 2430 p.m.,. 7,30-9 pal. Other' hours by appoint- ment. Successor to Dr. Ohas, Mackay: DR. H. H•i7GIH ROSS, Physician and Surgeon Late of London Hos- pital, London, England. 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Parties desirous to effect insurance or transact other business, will be promptly attended to by applications to any of Inc above named officers addressed to their respective post - offices. juwtped up fromhis snooze and be - gall to whimper his expectation. Sitrang's 'Heart smote him, "IGod bless nsi" he said aloud. "When a lass ;gets into a man's head there's room Inc',nothing ,else; he'll forget his best friends, IlIere, Harry, come along, and I''11 get ye your sup- per, my Haan." 'He folded up the blotting -pad' and 'locked it in the drawer, blew owit the canddles..caltetU (Harry to follow him 'Where th into the kitchen, e small ter- rier was dully provided for .and left on guard. Titen• he .sought out his own. swami ,room. I -le was whistling as he went; and 'if he dreamed of anything that night, tut, i, hfhut; ge sure it Wats' holt of Onee 'might and majesty of ISar 'Alex'ander Stuart of Gletngas!k and Otrosay: These verses' to Meenie were playthings .:.. anti fan cies i 1 but !for icJle hours. (To Be Continued)