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At last the day began to dawn; a faint grey light spread over the sea. We could distinguish now the masts of a ship in the far distance. 'There she is, poor thing! said my grandfather, pointing in the direction of the ship. 'She's close on Ainslie Crag I thought so! 'The wind's gone down a bit now, hasn't it? I asked. 'Yes, and the sea's a bit stiller just now, he said.
Six years have passed, a long time for a boy and a dog: Bob Ainslie is off to the wars; I am a medical student, and clerk at Minto House Hospital. Rab I saw almost every week, on the Wednesday; and we had much pleasant intimacy. I found the way to his heart by frequent scratching of his huge head, and an occasional bone.
At half-past ten, she took it away, sighing softly as she put out the light. Ruth wondered, but said nothing, even to Winfield. The grain in the valley was bound in sheaves, and the first colour came on the maples sometimes in a delicate flush, or a flash of gold, and sometimes like a blood-red wound. One morning, when Miss Ainslie came downstairs, Ruth was startled at the change in her.
"I think she should have waited until she came home. It would have been more delicate to let him follow her. To seem to pursue a gentleman, however innocent one may be, is is unmaidenly." Winfield choked, then coughed violently. "Understand me, dear," Miss Ainslie went on, "I do not mean to criticise your aunt she is one of my dearest friends.
His small eyes glittered with sly facetiousness as he shot a twinkle at his sister. She sat very stiff, and traced patterns upon the cloth with the sugar-tongs. "Dr. James M'Murdo O'Brien " said the Professor, sonorously. "Don't, John, don't!" cried Miss Ainslie Grey. "Dr. James M'Murdo O'Brien," continued her brother inexorably, "is a man who has already made his mark upon the science of the day.
"Your honor, I believe you said." "Yes, Miss Ainslie," he replied with dignity; "my honor requires that I should say to you now what I had felt forbidden to say before that, however exalted the opinion you may have formed of me, it could not have equalled that which I cherished for you not for what you did, but for what you were and this feeling, whatever you may think, is still unchanged."
The forest has melted away before the hand of steady industry, and we pass by cultivated fields on our way to the farm of Mr. Ainslie. The clearings have extended till very few trees obstruct our view as we gaze over the farms of the numerous settlers, which are now separated by fences instead of forest trees. But the loveliest spot of all is Hazel-Brook farm.
The first winter they passed in their new home was one of unusual severity for even the rigorous climate of Eastern Canada, and poor Mrs. Ainslie often during that winter regretted the willingness with which she bade adieu to her early home, to take up her abode in the dreary wilderness.
Miss Ainslie waited a moment, then continued, in a different tone: "To-day the lawyer came and made my will. I haven't much just this little house, a small income paid semi-annually, and my my things. All my things are for you the house and the income are for for him." Ruth was crying softly and Miss Ainslie went to her, laying her hand caressingly upon the bowed head.
"No," returned Miss Ainslie, "but she would not let anyone know." Ruth strolled over to the window, thinking that she must be going, and Miss Ainslie still held the picture in her hand. "She had a lover, didn't she?" asked Ruth, idly. "I-I-think so," answered the other, unwillingly. "You remember we quarrelled."
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