The Huron Expositor, 1892-11-18, Page 6DONALD •ROSS OF II MIRA.
BY 'WILLIAM BLACK.
CHAPTER I.
GODIVA.
Well, Mary, it is a pretty plaything to
have given ytiu-a Highland estate !-and
no doubtaltyour fine schemes will come
right. Bat you will have to change t three
things first."
" Yes?"
"And these are human nature and. the soil
and climate of Snot1and."
" Avaant, Mephistopheles ! and go and
give that porter a shilling."
The twcospeekers *ere on the platform of
the Invershin station--; ori the Highland line
of railway. One of them was a- tall young
woman of distinguished presence and some-
what imperious cerriage.as you could.gather
at a first glance; but the next second, if she
happened to turn her face towards you, you
would have perceived thst her expression
meatet nothing bat a bland geatleness and a
prevdiling and excellent geod humor. Per-
haps it was the elimple in her cheek that did
it --a dimple that came there reedily when-
ever she regarded any one, and that seemed
Vs say that she was very willing to be /stele-
edand, to plane ; at all events, she found it
easy, or had hitherto found it easy, to make
friends. For the rest, she was an erect and
elegant figure; her complexion far; her
eyes gray -green and full of light; her abund-
ant hair of a sunny -brown; her fattens
regular enough and fine enough for all prac-
tical purposes. It wats of Olio young woman
that her friend and now her travelling com-
paction, Kate Glendenning, was in the habit
of seying
• di There's one thing I will confess about
• Mary Stanley -she's not quite honest. She
its tea happy. She is so happy in herself
that she wants every one shermeets to share
in her content, and she is apt to say clever
and flattering little things that are not quite_
true. It is for no selfish purpose -quite the
reverse; still, you mustn't believe all that
Mary says to you."
Thus Kate Glendenning spoke of ber dear-
est friend; but if anyone else had ventured
i
to say similar things n her presence -then,
neid right swiftly, there would have been
- pretty tempests and &ghee of eye -lightning.
And now there came up to Miss Stanley a
short, dumpy, red-haired and red -bearded
man of extraordinary breadth of shoulder
and bulk of frame. HD had a MiteSiV8 head
despite his diminutive height; his mouth,
drawn heavily down at each end, betokened
a determined will, not to say a dogged ob-
stinacy; and his small clear blue eyes, be
sides being sharp and intelligent, had a mai •
ous kind, of cold aggressiveness in them -
that is to say, when be was not talking t
one whom it was hiainterest to propitiate,
for then he could assume a sortnf clams)
humility, both in manner and speech.
Thi e was Mr. David Purdie, solicitor, of
Inverness. An Troieh Bheag lhearg-that
is to say, the Little Red Dwarf -the people
out at Lochgarra called him; but Mr. Pur -
die did not know that:
"The carriage is quite ready, Miss Stan-
ley," said he, in his slow, deliberate, south -
country accent, and therewith:al the three of
them passed round to the back of the station
and eatered the wagonette, Mr. Pardie
modestly taking arseat by the driver. The
two young ladies were Well wrapped up, for
it was in the beginning of April, and they
had fifty miles before them, oat to the At-
lantic coast. Kate Glendenning, in looking
after her companion's abundantfurs and
rugs, rather affected to play the part of
maid, for this shrewd aral sensible lass, who
was iterather poor circumstances, was quite
content to accept a salary from her friend
who was so much better off, and she per-
formed her various selfiimposed duties with
a tact and discretion beyond all praise.
And an they drove away on this clear,
shining afternoon, Mary Stanleys face was
something to study. She was all eagerness
and impatience; the color mantled in her
cheeks ; her brain was so busy that she
had scarcely a word for her neighbor. For
she had heard a good deal, and read much
more, in Parliamentary debates and else-
where, of the sufferings of the crofters, of
-
the iniquities that had been practised on
them by tyranniced landlords and factors, of
the lamentations of the poor homelesti ones
thrust forth from their native shores; and
now; in this little bit of the world that had
so unexpectedly become hers, and in 4s far
as she was able, wrong was to be put:right,
amends were to be made, and peace and
amity, and comfort and prosperity were to
be established forever and ever. Perhaps
the transcendental vision of the Prophet
Isaiah was haunting her. "The wilderness
and the solitary place shall be glad . and
the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the
rose." Andif she were to summon beck the
poor exiles who had been banished -banish-
ed to the slums of Glasgow, perchance, or
the far plains of Manitoba ? . . . "And
the ransomed of the Lord shall return and
come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy
upon their heads; they shell obtain joy and
gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away." To be sure, as they now drove
along the wide and fertile valley that is pen•
etra.ted by the Kyle of Sutherland, She did
not meet with much evidence of the destitu-
tion she had been led to expect.
She had heard of bleak wastes and sterile
altitudes, of ruined huts and clisrhantled
ateedings; hat here, under the softly -wood-
ed hills, were long and level stretches of
arable land, the ploughmen busy at their
work ; the occasional crofts were very far
indeed from being hovels, and the people
whom they saw in the bits of gardens or
tending the cattle looked well clothed and
well fed. She ventured to hint something
of this to her companion, and Kate,glancing
at her, began to giggle.
"I really believe you are disappointed,
Mary. Is there not misery enough for you?
Brit never fear. If its misery you're in
search of you have seldom far to go frit in
this world. Only I must tell you this -if
you're, so eager to relieve distrese-athat
there is more of wretchedness and crime and
squalor aad piteous human suffering in a
single square mile of the slums of London or
New York than you'll find in the whole of
the Highlands of Scotland."
"That may be," said Miss Stanley; in her
cairn and equable fashion. "Bat, you see,
Kathehen, I have no call that way. I do
not feel a ditect responsibility as I do in this
case---"
"It is a responsibility you are melting for
yourself," her friend seidne " Yoti know
very well it was not for that your necle left
you the property ; it was merely to spite's
your father and your brothers."
" There was a little more," NV tho goed-
natured reply, (for she did not seem to re-
sent this ri ference to her amiable relative.)
"I think it was to spite the peop1e out there
as well. My uncle and they never could get
on, and he was not a man who liked to t)be
thwarted ; and, of course, he iniagirted that
• I, being a woman, would not interfere ; that
I would leave the estate to be managed by
• Mr. Pardie, and simply receive the rents.
Well," she continated-a.nd here she lower-
ed her voice somewhat, and there was a
touch of color in her face that was perhaps
the expression of some definite resolve-" I
may allow Mr. Purdie to manage' the estate
or I may not. But if he does continue to
manage the estate it will be under my direc-
tion.'
Kathchen looked at herand laughed a
"I don't think Mr. Purdie knows ,whom
he his got to deal with," said she, under her
breath.
•They atopped that night at Oykel Bridge.
lYfies Stanley invited Mr. Purdie to dine
with them, bat he declinethe op. tbe ground
that he had business in the neighborhood -
an odd excuse, for the inn and its dependen-
cies constitate the remote little hamlet. The
two young women polled the evening by e
,t
theolselves and talked; the One with gener-
ous ardor entering into all her wonderful
scheine_a, the other (who knew the country
and4 the people) interposing now and again
with a little modifying information. But
really Kathchen was not unsympathetic.
Her eyes, which were the attractive feature
of lier face, sometimes expressed a trifle of
derbure amusement; but she was not a quer-
rehtome or argumentative creature; ancl,be-
sidOs, there is something in all fine humani-
tarian projects that one would rather believe
and welcome.
Next morning they resumed their drive,
and very soon entered a much wilder coun-
try than that of the preceding day. Wild-
er, but nevertheless beautifut--with its
range upon range of russet hills, wine -stain,
ed?here and therg with shadow; ite woods
of leafless birch of a soft, yellow and brown,
with now and again the sudden biue scythe.
sweep of tho river. For now they were
traversing the lonely district of upper Strath
Ottkel. Far ahead of them rose the giant
bulk of Ben More, .Assynt, its higher shoul-
ders a solid mass of White. The sunlight
arOund them was cheerful, no -deubte and
yet there was a strange sense of solitariness,
of yoicelessness ; and Mary, who was -lees
concerned about the beauty Of the landscape
than about certain preblems haunting her
mihd, called out to Mr. Purdie, who was
again up beide the driver. •
" Mr. Purdie, why are there no people
living in this country 7"
"Because there's nothing for them to live
was the laconic answer. "It's fit for
nothingbut for grazing sheep -and for
grouse., '
"Ye --the hills,perhaps," said she, "But
loek along the valley -by the side of theti
river."
e' Aye, it's fine land, that," said he, grim-
ly; "for a wheen pesewepes 1" And. indeed;
the plovers were the only visible living
things, jerking about in the air, dipping
stiddenly to the ground and swiftly rising
again, with their curious squeaking call,
and the soft velvet fluffing of their wiogs.
However, all thin was nothing. By-and-
by theedhad left the Oylcel strath, and had
entered upon afar higher and bleaker re-
gion, the desolation of which appalled her.
There vras not even the solitary shepherd's
cottage they had seen down in the other
'alley; here was nothing but a wilderness
Of brown and ragged moorland, with deep
black clefts of peat, and an oceasional small
tarn, without a bn3h along it shores, its
waters driven a deep blue bY the wind.
Away in the west they could make out the
bpectral shapes of the Amsynt mountains-
Coul Beg, Coul More, and Suilvan-remote
and visionary through the universal haze of
the heather burning ; but -here, all around
them, were these endless and featureless and
melancholy undulations : and the silence was
now unbroken even by the curious bleating
of the plovers; once, and once only, they
heard the k.oaree and distant croak of a
raven. .
Kathchen," said Mary, in a sort of piti-
ous dismay, as she looked abroad over those
sombre solitudes, "you have been all along
the Ross and Cromarty coast; is it like
that?"
'Plenty of it wore," was the reply.
"And -and -my place; is it like that ?"
"1 have never been in Lochgarra."
"But -if it is like that, what am I to do
for my people ?"
"The best yoa can," said Kathchen,
cheerfully.
It seemed an interminable drive. And
then, in the afternoon, a premature dark-
ness came slowly over. The mountains in
the north gradually receded out of sight,
and heavy, steadY rain began to fall. The
two girls sat huddled together underneath
one umbrella, listening to thepattering foot-
falls of the horses and the grinding of the
wheels on the road, and when they ventur-
ed to peep forth from their shelter they be-
held but the same monotonous teatures in
the landscape --masses of wet rook and dark,
russet heather, black swamps, low and bare
hills, and now and again the gray glimmer
of a stream or tarn. It was a cheerless out-
look, continually changing, and yet ever the
same; and hour after hour the rain came
&Ivo wearily. There was hardly a word
said between thaw two. Whither had fled
Mary Stanley's dreams of a shining blue sea,
a sunny coast line and a happy peasantry
busy in their fields and gardens, their white'
cottages radiant in the morning light. Kath-
chen, ow -the other hand, was inclined to
laugh ruefully.
Isn't ita good thing, Mary, that duty
brought us here? If it had been pleitsure
we should be calling ourselves awful fools."
But quite of a sudden this hopeless resig-
nation vanished, and a wild excitement took
its place.
"Miss Stanley," Mr, Purdie called to her,
"we've come to the much." •
The what?"
"The march -the boundary of your es -
Instantly ehe had the oarriage, stopped,
and nothing would do but that she must get
.down and set foot on her own land. More-
over, when • Kathchen ; took the umbrella,
they found. that the *in had ceased,
and that the weatern slides were lightening
somewhat.
" Thet is the march,' said Mr. Purdie,
pointing to a low, irregular moss -grown wall
-obviously a very ancient landmark -"and
it goes right over the hill and down againlo
the Garra.".
Leaving the highway else stepped across
the ditch, and stood on the moist, soft peat
land.
" And this is mine !" she said to liath-
°ben, with an odd expression of face. "This
is absolutely mine. Nobody can dispute my
posseasion of it. This piece of the solid
world actually belongs to me."
"And I suppotse your rights extend as
deep as ever you like," said Kathcben.
"You might go all the way through, and
have a waik on the streets of Melbourne and
get dry, and come back."
But Mary's quick eye had caught sight of
what was to her the most important feature
of the surrounding landscape. It was a cot-
tage perched on a knoll above a burn -or,
rather, it was the ruins of a cottage, the
gables standing roofless, the thatch long ago
away by the winds, the beams and
fallee stones lying among the withered net-
tles, altogether a melancholy sight.
'Now, isn't it shameful ?" she exclaimed,
in hot indignation: "Look at that ! The
very first thing I meet with. Do you won-
der that people should talk about the High.
and landlords? Some poor wretch has been
driven away -perhaps at this very moment
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• of men-livtle clumps of buildings clustered
• together just over & stretch of flat land that
had clearly been rebovered from the river
bed. Crofts, no doubt; each slated cottage
surrounded by its huddled dependency of
thatched barns and byres.
I AS the wagonette drew near to the first of
theseirude little settlements th ei women dis-
appeared into the out -houses, and the
children hid behind the peat stacks; but
there remained standing at the door of the
cottage an elderly man, who regarded the
strangers with a grave, and perhapi. rather
sullen, curiosity.
"`Mr. Purdie," said Mary, in an under-
tone, "is that one of my tenants ?"
"Yee, certainly; that is James Mac-
donald."
"1 wish to make his acquaintance," said
she; and she stopped the carriage and got
out.
There was no sort of fear or unnecesteary
bashfulness about this -young woman. She
walked right up the bank to the door of the
cottage. The short, thick -set man standing
there bad something of a Russian cast of
countenance, with a heavy gray beard,
shaggy eyebrows, and small,suspicious eyes.
His clothes were weatheriworn aiOto color
and much mended ; but they were not in
the least squalid, and he had a red woolen
comforter round his neck.
"Good evening !" said she, with a most
winning smile.
But the propitiating dimple that had
hitherto been all conquering was of no avail
here. He looked at her. He did not raise
hiseap.
"Cha
'n' eit beurla agam," said he with a
sort of affected indifference.
She was taken aback only for a moment.
" What dose he say ?,' she asked of Mr.
Purdie, who had followed her.
"He says be has naeEnglieb," the factor
answered, and then he added vindictively,
"-but he would haye plenty of English if
he wanted to tell you of his grievances -soh,
aye plenty! Start him on ,that, and he'll
find plenty of English. ,Fle's one of the
most ill-condeetioned men in the whole
place -and I suppose be has enough English
to understand that."
• "Tell him who I am," said she, rather
disappointedly, for she had set out with the
determination to get to know all the circum-
stances and wants and wishes of her ten-
ants, especially of the gooier ones, without
the intervention of any factor.
Hereupon Mr. Purdie, in unnecestarily
severe tones, as it seemed to' her, addressed
a few sentences in Gaelic toi the stubborn -
looking old man, who, in turn, and with no
abatement of his hostile attitude, replied in
the same tongue. But to Mary's surpriee he
sudrIenly added fixing moose eyes upon
he
"She-no my laird! Rosa of Heimra-
my laird.. Yodng Donald -rhe my laird.
She no my laird at ahl !"
"Oh, but that is absurd, you know,"
Mary said, eagerly,and with a quick delight
that she could enter into direct communica-
tion with him. "You forget -.--you are mis-
taken -my uncle bought the estate from the
late Mr. Ross of Heimra. Surely you un-
derstand that? Surely you know that? The
whole place was bought in open market.
Mr. Rosser:4d the land and all the rights be-
longing to it ---yes, and the obligations, too;
and my uncle bought it, Don't you under-
stand?!'
The man turned away his eyes and sulkily
muttered something in Gaelic.
" What is it ?" asked Mary, compelled to
appeal once more to the factor.
"Like the scoundrel's impertinencersaid
the Little Red Dwarf, darting an angry
look at the crofter. "He says the English-
man -that is your uncle, Mies Stanley -the
Englishman bought the land, but not the
hearts of the people."
"And that is quite right !" Mary exclaim-
ed. "That is quite right and true. Tell
him I quite.agree with him. But tell him
this -tell him that if my uncle did not buy
the hearts of the peop e, I mean to win
them."
"Oh, Mary," Kathleen struck in, rather
shamefacedly, " Don't talk like that! They
won't understand you. Be practice!, Ask
him what complaiut he has to make about
his farm-aak him what he wants-"
"I can tell ye that beforehand 1" said Mr.
Purdie, in his irascible acorn; "He wants
more arable land, and he wants more pas-
ture, and both for nothing. And no doubt
he would like a stem -plow thrown in, and
maybe a score, or two o' black-facefl weth-
ers--"
But Mary intetrupted. She had formed
for herself some idea before she came to
this country as to how° she meant to pro-
ceed,
"Mr. Pudic," said she, in her clear'rm.
way, "1 wish you to ask this man if he has
anything to complain of, and I wish you to
tell me precisely what he says."
Tiki Troia Bheag Dhearg being thus order-
edifobeyede but he scowh3d upon the stubborn
crofter, and it *au apparent there was no
love lost on the other side either. As the
end of their brief and unwilling conversa-
tion the factor made.his report.
"Well, there were many things he would
like -who could doubt that ?-but in
especcial he wants the pasture of Meall-na-
Cruagan dividedemong the crofters of this
district and the tax for the dike taken off
the rent. But Meall-na•Crugan never did
belong to the crofters at any time, and it is
a part of Mr. Watson's sheep farm ; he has
it under lease."
• "1 will look into that afterwarda," said
she. "What is the tax you mentioned ?"
" Well, when the dike along there-, the
embankment," said the factor, "was built
to keep the river from flooding the land, the
interest of the money expended was added
on to the rentnof the crofts, as was natural;
and that's what they call a tax."
"How lout/ have they been paying that
tax ?" she asked.
"It is about thirty years since the dike
was built."
"Thirty years !" she said. "Thirty
years ! These poor people have been pay-
ing a tax all this time for an embankment
built to improve the property. Really, Mr, ,
Purdie '
"They get the value of it," he said,
as testily_ as he dared. "The land is no
longer flooded-"
"Tellthie man," said she, with some
color mounting to her faim, "that the tax
for the dike is abolished -here and now !"
" Godiva !" said Kathchen, in an under-
tone, with a bit of a titter.
in Canada or in Australia, he is thinking of
the old home, and forgetting all the rain and
discomfort. Mr. Purdie t"
" Yes, ma'am," said he, coming a bit P
nearer; andKathchen looked on, wondering
what his doom was going to be.
"Who lived in that house ?" Miss Stanley
demanded.
"The schoolmaster." was the reply.
"The schoolmaster ! And where is he
He's in his own house," the factor said. a
"We built him a new one, and a better one, m
to be nearer the schOol and the village; and c
when he moved it waselaardly worth while f
keeping the old one in repair."
"Ob," she eadclot little disconcerted. "Oh, t
resdly. Then no one was sent away -from nt
that cottage ?"
"No, no; not at all -not at all," said he,
and he followed her to the wagonette and t
politely shut the door after her, while n
Kathchen's face maintained an admirable t
gravity.
As they drove on again, the afternoon e
seemed inclined to clear; the skies were lo
banking up, and there were faint streaka of f
lemon -yellow among the heavy purple clouds t
in the west. And very soon now the road
made a sweep to the left, bringing them in t
sight of the Connan, a small but turbulent s
tributary of !the Garra. Here &leo 'they o
ncountered tte first signs of the hahltations C
d
And the factor would have proteated from
is own point of view. But this young
woman's heart was all -aflame. She eared
otbing for ridicule nor for any sort of more
ractical opposition. Here was some defin-
te :wrong that she could put right. She
idnot want to hear from Mr. Purdie, or
rom anybody else, what neighboring land-
ords might think, or what encouragement
t might give the crofters to make other and
more impossible domande.
"I don't care what other laudlords may
ay 1" said she, with firm lips. "You tell
e that I implrove my property, and then
heap theee poor people with the coat! And
or thirty years they have been paying?
Well, I wish you to say to this man that
he tax no longer exista-from this mo-
ent it no longer exists -it is not to
&heard of again !"
The factor made a brief communication ;
he taciturn crofter answered not a word-
ot a word of recognition, much less of
hanks. But Mary Stanley was not to be
aunted by this incivility. As she descend -
d to the wagonette her face wore a proud
ok-right and justice should be done, as
ar as she was able, in this her small sphere;
he rest was with the gods.
And again they drove on;' but now was
here not some subtle softening of the air,
ome moist odor of the sea, some indication
f the neighborhood of the Atlantic shores?
!early they were getting down to the
Children Cry for Pitchers Castor's.
•
coast. Arid, unhappily, as they went on,
the land around them seemed to be getting
Worse and worse. -if there could be a worse.
A wilderness of crags and knolls -of Hebri-
dean- gneiss mostly ; patches of swamp,
with black -gullies of peat; sterile hills that
would have threatened • a hoodie crow with
starvation -such appeared to be Miss Stan-
ley's newly -found property. But a very
curious incident now occurred to withdraw
her attention from these immediate sur-
roundings -an incident the meaning of
• which she was to learn subsequently. They
had come in sight of a level space that bad
evidently at one time been a lake, but was
now • a waste of etonee, with a touch of
green slime and a few' withered rushes here.
and there, and in the . middle of this space
on a mound that had apparently been con-
nected with .the mainland, was a heap of
scattered blocks that looked like the tum-
ble down ruins of some ancient fort.
" What is that, Mr. Purdie ?" she called
out, still anxious for all possible -infor-
mation. .
A malignant grin came over tbe face of
the Little Red Dwarf.
"That," 'said be, " was once Castle
Heimra, and now it is nothing." r
He had acaroely uttered the words when
the driver slashed at the neck of one of the
horses and both (animals sprang forward
with a jerk -a jerk so sudden and violent
that Mr. Purdie was nearly pitched head-
long from his seat. He threw a savage
glance at the driver, but he dared not say
anything -the two ladies were within hear-
ing. Later on that evening Mary, recalled
this little incident, and seemed to under-
stand.
Behold, at last, the sea !-a sernicircular
bay sheltered by long black headlands; be-
yond that the wide gray plain, white tipped
with flashing and hurrying waves, and out
towards the horizon a small but precipitous
island, a heavy surge springing high along
its southern crags.
but she had time only for the briefest
glance, for here was the village -her own
village! -with its smithy, its school -room,
its inn, its grocery store, that was also a
post -office, and thereafter a number of - not
very picturesque cottagea scattered about
amid hits of poor garden, just above the
shore. Nay, at the same moment she
caught eight of Lochgarra House -her home
that was to be -an odd-looking buildiag
that seemed half a jail and half a baronial
cestle,but.avas prettily situated among some
larch woods on a promontory on the other
Side of the bay. Of course they had driven
through the little township almost directly,
and now she could turn to the sea again -
that looked strangely mournful and distant
in the wan twilight. -
"But where's the yacht ?" she exclaim-
ed.
" What yacht ?" her companion asked,
with some surprise.
"Why, the yacht I saw. a minute ago -
just before we curie to the village ; it was
out yonder -close to the ieland--"
"Oh, nonsense, Mary !" said Kathchen,
"You may have seen a fishing -smack or a
lobster -boat; but a yacht at this time of the
year 1-" •
"1 declare to you I saw a yaalit, for I
noticed how white the sails were, even in
the twilight," Mary insisted; and then she
appealed to the factor: "Mr. Purdie,
didn't you eee a yacht out there a minute or
two ago ?" e
"No, I did not," he made answer; and
-then he in his turn addressed the driver.
"Did you, John ?"
"No," said the driver, looking straight
ahead of him, and with a curiously impas-
aive expression of face -an expression of
face that convinced Mr. Purdie, who
was prone to suspicion, that the man bad
lied.
It
was a kind of bewilderment to her, this
taking possession -the going up the wide
stone steps, the gazing round the lofty oak
hall, the finding herself waited upon by
those shy -eyed, soft-spoken Highland maids.
But when she was in the retirement of her
own room, whither she had been accompani-
ed by the faithful Kathchen, one thing stood
out clear to her mind from amid all the long
day's doings. .
"Kathchen," said she -and she was
I
pacing up and down the room or going from
window to window without looking out,
as was sometimes her habit when she was
excited-" I mean to have my own way in
this. It is not enough that the tax should
be abolished -it is not enough. No doubt
those poor people were saved from the risk
of floods ; but, onithe other hand, the pro-
perty was permanently improved, and it is
monstrous that they should be expected to
go on paying forever. I tell you they have
paid too much already, and I mean to See
things made right. What do I oare for Mr.
Purdie or the neighboring landlords ?" If
Mr. Purdie has any business to talk of when
he comes along this evening -well, my
little piece of business must take preced-
ence. I am going to give Mr. Purdie the
first of his instructions." She paused for a
second, and then she spoke with rather a
proud and determined air: "Fifteen years
of that tax to be remitted and returned ! "
" Godiva !" said Kathchen again, but
etlymeree. was not much sarcasm in her smiling
CHAPTER II.
YOUNG DONALD.
"And if I am not the laird," said Miss
Stanley, as the three of them took their
places at the table -for Mr. Purdie had ac-
cepted an invitation, and had come along
from the inn to dine with the two young
ladies-" if I am not the laird, I want to
know who is the laird; I want to know all
about my rival. What was it the stubborn
old crofter called him Young Donald -
young Ross of Heinnra-well, tell me all
about him, Mr. Purdie."
But to Mary's surprise the Little Red
Dwarf remained sternly mute. Yet there
was no one in the room besides .themselves
but the maid who was waiting at the table
-a tall and • good-looking. ',Highland lass,
vvhose pretty way of speech and gentle
manner and shy eyes had already made a
pleasant impreesion on her young mistress
All the same, the factor remained silent
until the girl had gone.
"1 would just advise ye, Mies Stanley,"
said he, rather moderating Isis voice, which
ordinarily was inclined to be aggressive and
rancous-" I would just advise ye to have a
care what ye say before these people.
They're all in a pact, and they're sly and -
cunning just beyond belief -aye, and ready
to do ye a mischief, the thrawn, ill -willed
creatures." _
"Oh, Mr. Purdie," Mary protested in her
good humored way, "you musn't try to
prejudice me like that! I have already had
a little talk with Barbara, and I could not
but think of what Dr. Johnson said, that
every Highland'girl is a gentlewoman."
"And not a word they utter is to be be-
lieved -no not with a bible in their hands,"
the factor went on, in spite of her remon-
strance: "Mise Stanley, did ye hear me
ask the driver as we came through the vil-
lage if he had seen the yacht out by Heimra
Island -the yacht that ye saw with your own
eyes? He said no, he had not seen it, and I
knew by his face he was lying to me."
"But, Mr. Purdie," said Mary again,
"you did not see the yacht either: And I
may have been mistaken."
"Ye were not mietaken," said the factor,
with vicious emphasis, "for well I know
what that was. That was nothing else than
young Ross coming back from one of his
smuggling expeditions -the thieving, poach-
ing scoundrel !-and little thinking that I
would be coming out to Lochgarra this very
afternoon. But be even with my gentle-
. (Continued on e 7
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Children Cry for Pitel,'s Castoria.
You need n't go to Florida, but take
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
Of Pure Norwegian Cod Liver
011 and Hypophosphites.
It will STRENOTHEN WEAK LUNGS,
STOP THE COUGH, AND CHECK all
WASTING DISEASES. A remarkable
flesh producer and it is almost as Palat-
able as Milk. Be sure to get the genuine
put up in salmon -colored wrappers.
Pespared only by Seat k Bowne,
You
Need
Wall Paper
OIL
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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.
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been awarded
ancl Excellence.
Its UNEQUALLED QUALITY has given
it the largest sale in the world. -
You can use " Sunlight " for all pur-
poses, and in either hard or soft Water.
Don't use washing pOwders as with -
other soaps. "Sunlight " is better without.
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KIPPEN MILLS.
Always Ready to Er I've the Public
by Giving Go Flour.
JOHN McNEVIN "
Begs to inform hie friends and the public) that he is
again able to give his personal attention to bueiness,
and having engaged Mr. John, B. Austin, *thor• -
oughly competent,practicalmiller,he is peeparetitodo
GRISTING AND CHOPPING
On the shorted notice, and most reagonable terms
to all who may call.
Satisfaction guaranteed every time.
trial solicited.
JOHN MoNEVIN, Kippena
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Ha] dvware Merchants, Seaforth.
The Old Established.
BROADFoOTS
Planing Mill and
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ash and Door Facility,
This old and well-known establishment le still
running at full blast, and now has better facilities
'a •than ever before ,to turn out a good article for a
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
lumber for sale on reasonable terms. Shingles 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. H. BROADFOOT, Seaforth.
WC/UM.; PT. 817NLIM-IT LEVEIZ. DIMS., LIMITED
NEAR 13IREENBEA1)
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 ealf, Leicester
ram and ewe lambs, got by the 1st prize winner at
the Toronto Industrial this year. Choice Berkshires
of both sexes. Lucknow station within three miles.
E. GAUNT & SONS, St. Helen P. 0., Ontario.
. 1297-tf
Wellington,
GOING NORTH-.
Ethel
Brunie
Bluevale...........
Wingham..
GOING SOUTH-
Wingham
Bluevale
Bruesele
Ethel..........
Grey and Bruce.
Passenger.
3.00r.L 9.25
8.13 9.45
8.27 9.52
8.37 10.02
Passenger.
8.46 ..M.11.20
6.65
6.66 11.86
7.10 11.59
' 7.22 12.14
Mixed.
P.M. 9.00 p.m.
9.38
10.10
11.20
Mixed.
A. M. 7.25 P.M.
7.66
8.50
• 9.26
• London, Enron and Bruce.
Gortoe NORTH -
London, depart
Exeter
Hensall.
Kippen.
Brucefield .
Clinton
Londeaboro
Blyth
Belgrave. .
Winghain arrive
GOING SOUTH-
Wingham, depart es .
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro
Clinton'
Brucefield
Kippen..
Hensel'
Exeter
• . • - • . •
Paesenger. '
8.16A.M. 4.40?.le
9.10 5.46
• 9.28 6.00
9.34 • 8.07
9.42
10.00 6.46
10.19 7.03
10.28 7.12
10.42 7.26
11.00 7.60
Passenger
6.48e.m. 3.45r.m.
7.03 4.06
7.16 4.20
7.23 4.23
7.66 4.50
8.16 5.12
8.24 5.21
8.32 5.30
8.50 5.46
Grand Trunk Railway.
Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton station as
follows : i
GOING WRIT- SRAFORTH. CLINTON.
Pialenger .. .. .. 1.12?. M. 1.28s. m.
Passenger... .. .. - 9.00 r. a. 9.17 P. M.
Mixed Train_ .. - 9.20 a. ft. 10.05A.n,
Mixed Train. ii.15 r. m. 6.56 P.m.
Gonne Eva -
Passenger. .. .. .. 7.69 A. M. 7.48 4. 11.
Passenger .. .. .. - 3.00 r. N. 2.41p. *
Mixed Tram_ - - - 6.30r m. 4.55p. at.
Freight Train.. .. 4.25r. at 3.80 r. *
J. C. SMITH & CO
NOVEMBER 18, 1892
V ETERINARY,
TORN GRIEVE, V. S., honor graduate of Ontario
tJ Veterinary College. Ail diseases of Domestic
Animals treated. Calls promptly attended to and
Charges moderate. Vete rinary Dentistry a specialty
Office and residence over W. N. • Wateore Sewing
Machine Shop, Seaforth, 1112tf
MIRANK S. Beattie, V. S., graduate of Ontario Vet
erinary College, Toronto, Member of the Vet
erinary Medical Society, etc,, treats all diseases of
the Domesticated Animals. All cello promptly at-
tended to either by day or night. Charges trioder.
ate. Special attention given sc veterinary deals -
try. Office on Main Street, Seaforth, one door
south of Kidd'e Ilardware store. " 1112
QEAFORTH HORSE INFIRMARY.-Oorner of Jar-
° vis and Goderich Streets, next door to the Pres-
byterian Church, Seaforth, Ont. All ali ses of
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, or any of the do a sticated
animals, eucceesfully treated at Ws, insrmary or
elsewhere, on the ahortest notice. shargeo at )(ler-
ate. JAMES W. ELDER, Vetetinary Surgesn. P
S. -A Loge stook of Yei6212ary Medicines sept con
stantly on hand
LEGAL
10 S. HAYS, successor to the late firm of Dickson
& Hays, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary public, &c.
Meney to loan. Office-Cardrio's block, Main Street
Seaforth. 1285
HIGGINS & LEIVNON,
Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public, &e. Offices -
120 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, and Seaforth,
Ontario. Seaforth• Office -Whitney's Block, Main
Street. Money to loan. • Thomas MuiroN HIGGINS.
.TAMES LUNNON. 1291
1LJfATTUEW MORRIf3ON, waiton, Insurance
.01. Agent, Commissioner for taking afildtwitet
Conveyances, &o. Money to loan at the lowest rates.
M. MORRISON, Walton.
BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, &c.
J. Office -Rooms, five doors north ofCommercial
.1totei, ground floor, next door to C. L. Papst's
Jewelry store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderich
agents -Cameron, Holt and Cameron. •1215
GARROW & PROUDPOOT, Barristers, Solicitors,
Am, Goderioh, Ontario. J. T. GARIOW. Q. 0.;
WM. PROUDPOOT. 684
nAMERON, HOLT & HOLMES, Barristers So -
Honors ChnnacrY, 140.,Gtoderich, Ow IM.0.
OAWOROM, Q. C., Pnuar Hour, DITIMST Morass.
ANNING & SCOTT, Baristere, 801101SOIS, COD
.111 veyanoere, &o. Solicitors for the ftBant o4
Johnoton, Tisdale k Gale. Money to loan Office -
Elliott Block, Clinton, Ontario. L. R. MAXIMS
Janos Soorr. 761
pcii HOLM/WED, =sown to the, late firm
e McCaughey4 Lichneeted, Barrister, So.
tor, Conveyancer and Notary. Solicitor for the
Canadian Bank of Commeroe. Money to lend. Farms
for tale. Oce in flootfee Block, Main Street,
Seaforth.
•
W. .0AMERON SMITH,
BARRISTER.
Solicitor of Superior Court, Commissioner for
taking Affidavits in the High Court
of Justice, Conveyancer,
HENSALL, Money to Lend
ONTARIO.
DENTISTRY.
"E't W. TWEDDLE, Dentist, Office over Hamilton
& McInnes' Shoe Stare, corner Main end John
Streets, Seaforth, Ontario. Nitrous Oxide Gas ad-
ministered for the painless extrsootion of teeth, 1169
DR. G. FRANKLIN BELDEN, Dentist. Gas ad-
ministrated for painless extraction of teeth.
Office over Johnson's Hardware Store, Seaforth.
• '1226
01 AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will
..11,1, visit Herniall at Hodgens' Hotel
every Monday. 1288
•T__T- KINSMAN, Dentist, L. D. S.,
Isl. Exeter, Ont. Will be at Zuriohs
at the Huron Hotel, en the Last
THURSDAY IN EACH MONTH, and at
Murdock's Hotel, Hensel', on the FIRST AND THIRD
FRIDAY in each month. Teeth extracted with the
leieb pain postale. All work first-class at liberal
rates.
971
DR. C. H. INGRAM, 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. -Plates secured firmly in the mouth by
Yemens' Patent Valve.
MONEY- TO LOAN.
liiriONEY TO LOAN. -Straight loans at 6 per
I11 oent., with the privilege ta borroweo of
repaying part of the principal money id any time.
Apply to F. HOLMESTED, BarrLstez, Seaforth.
MEDICAL
DR. C. SHEPPARD, Physician and Sur on Bay-
field, Onterio, successor to Dr. W, .
1225.62
9 DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY,
OFFICE, Goderich Street, opposite Methodist
-Ohurch,Seaforth. RESIDENCE, next Agricultural
Grounde.
33.A.1\TICM1=ZS-
,
A General Banking businesa transacted.
Farmers' notes diecounted,
Drafts bonght- and sold.
Interest allowed on deposits:
SALE NOTES discounted, or taken for
collection
OFFICE -First door north of Reid &
Wilson's hardware Store.
SEAFORTH.
(John S. Porter's
Undertaking and Furni-
SEAFIllarfie EmPri ONTARIO.
OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION.
Funerals furniehed on the shorted notice
and satisfaction gui anteett A large assort-
ment of Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, &o.,
always on hand of the best (*tatty. The best
of Embalming Fluid ased free of charge and
prices the lowest, Fine Hearse.
S. T. FOLMES, Funeral Director. Resi-
dence - GODERICH STREET, directly op-
posite the Methodist church in the house
formerly occupied by Dr. Scott.
1211111113111111111.111
PUBLIC NOTICE.
The undersigned hereby begs 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 front Oil, Pitch, Tar, Paint or Grease will be
thoroughly removed and nicely pressed up again,
making them look as clean and fresh as when new.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Charges moderate.
Shops and residenci3 first doer north of Thos. Kidd's
residence, and_opposite S. Dicksons.
1266 tf. J. W. SNELL.
OIL CAKE 1 1
Car lots delivered to your nearest
station.
Farmers and Feeders
Oan dub tether and take a
few tuns each and get rock bottom
prices.
ALFRED BOYD,
1 Wellington Street East,
Toronto.
1249
J. G. SCOTT, M, D. C. M., (Ann Arbor and Vic-
toria,) M. C. P. S. 0.
C. MACKAY, M. D. C. M.. (Trinity,) F. T. M. C.,
M. C. P. 8.0.
•
-D E. COOPER, M. D., Physician, Surgeon and
Aceoucher, Constance, Ont. 1127
DR. ELLIOTT, Brucefield, Lioentiate Royal
College of Physloians and Surgeons, &lin.
burgh. Brucefleld, Ont. 980
RW. BRUCE SMITH, M. D, M, Member of
. the College of Phyeicians and Surgeone, &o.,
Seaforth, Ontario. Offiee and reeidenes same as
ocoupisd by Dr. Veneto. 848
- -
A LEX. BETHUNE? M. D., Fellow of the Royal
sels College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston.
Successor to Dr. 7ifackid. Office lately oocupled
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 the Conn.
. _ty of Huron. Sales attended In a I parts of
the County. All ordere left at Tam Exeoarroit
Office will be promptly attended to.
WM. M'CLOY,
Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales prompt-
ly attended to, charges moderate and eatisfaction
guaranteed. Orders by mail addressed to Chiselhorst
Post Office or left at his residence, Lot 2, Concession
11, Tuckersmith, will receive prompt ettention. •
1296-tf
G; DUFF,
AUCTIONEER FOR THE COUNTY, Conveyancer,
Collector, Book-keeper and Accountant Real Estate,
Life, Accident and Fire Lnsurance Agent; Money to
Loan, Correspondence, &c. Parties requiring hie
services in any of these branches will receive
prompt attention. °MOB IN DALEY% BLOCK, Ore
stenuo, MAIN STRUT, SRIPORTH. 1111!
McKillop Directory for 1892.
JOHN BENNEWIES, Reeve, Brodhagen P. 0.
JOHN MORRISON, Deputy Reeve Winthrop.
DANIEL MANLEY, Councillor, Be'echwood.
JAMES EVANS, Councillor, Beechwood.
WILLIAM ABCHIBALD, Councillor, Leadbury.
JOHN C. MORRISON Clerk, Winthrop.
SOLOMON 3. SHANNON, Treasurer, Winthrop.
WM. EVANS, Assessor, Beeoliwood.
CHARLES DODDS, Collector, Seaforth.
R. W. B. SMITH, M. D., Medical Health Officer,
Seaforth.
WM. McG1VINS, Sanitary Inspector, Leacinury.
HURON AND BRUCE
• Loan and Investment
00MP
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- end
North Street, Godbrich. -
HORACE HORTON,
MANAGIM,
Goderich, August 6thi1885•
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