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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'
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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
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E. Pepper, R.R.1, Brucefleld; E. R G.
Jarmouth, Brodhagen; James Watt,
Blyth; C. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; •
Wm, Yeo, Holmesville.
DSRE:OTIORS '
Alex. Bro•ad•foot, Seaforth No. 3;
James Sh•oldice, Walton; Wm. Knox,
F ondesboro; George Leonhardt,
Bornholm No. 1; John Pepper, Bruce -
field; James Connolly, Goderich;
Alex, McEwing, Blyth No. 1; Thom-
as Moylan, Seaforth No. 5; Wm. R.
Archibald, Seaforth No. 4.
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)