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It will be understood that not all this information was communicated by the aunt, who had too much of the family failing herself to appreciate it thoroughly in others. But as time went on, Archie began to observe an omission in the family chronicle. "Is there not a girl too?" he asked. "Ay: Kirstie.
It's well for you he is such a fool, or else you wouldn't have a chance." "I don't see that at all," said Archie. "Julia always had a sneaking fondness for Harry, and if he had waited would have taken him now. She was very near making a fool of herself with him once, before Lord Ongar turned up." To this Archie said nothing, but he changed color, and it may almost be said of him that he blushed.
Still biting one finger she waited, until: "Foreign office," announced a voice. "Please put me through to Mr. Archie Boden-Shaw," she said. Ere long that official's secretary was inquiring her name, and a moment later: "Is that you, Archie?" said Mollie. "Yes! Mollie speaking. No, please listen, Archie!
"Are you ready to come home now, Phebe?" asked Archie tenderly as he looked at the downcast face beside him and wondered why all women did not wear delightful little black velvet bonnets with one deep red flower against their hair. "Not yet. I haven't done enough," began Phebe, finding it very hard to keep the resolution made a year ago.
While they were in Honolulu a vessel arrived, bound for Japan, and Archie was delighted to find it was the same vessel upon which he had worked his passage from San Francisco on his way to Manila. He went aboard and met some of the friends he had made there, and found that they all knew now who it was they had carried as chore-boy in the galley.
And Lilias smiled in reply. When the service was over, and Mrs Blair and the children had passed out into the kirk-yard, Mrs Graham, the minister's widowed daughter, came and invited them into the manse till it should be time for the service in the afternoon. Mrs Blair went with her; but Archie was shy, and liked better to stay out in the pleasant kirk-yard; and Lilias stayed with him.
But Torarin's mother said to Elsalill: "It was well that you sent for me, for it is not fitting for a maid to sit alone in the house with such a man as Sir Archie. You know full well that a soldier of fortune has neither honour nor conscience." "Did I send for you?" asked Elsalill, astonished. "Yes," answered the old woman.
There's many a cropper a-goin' on just now, an' we can't all expect to come off scot-free." "The voice sounded like that of Fergus," said Archie, "but I can see nothing for smoke now. Is that a man on the ground over there?" "Don't know, Archie. Out o' the way, lad; there's another chance. Must get closer this time."
"There is another that fills my thoughts. Still do I see her before me, and still do I hear the sound of her voice in my ears." And then Elsalill saw that Sir Archie was gazing at one of the massive pillars that upheld the cellar roof. She saw, too, what till then she had not marked, that her foster sister stood beside that pillar and looked upon Sir Archie.
It was a first-class machine worth four or five thousand dollars as it stood, and Archie was cheered by the thought that he enjoyed the friendship of a man who satisfied all his needs with so little trouble. When he returned the Governor was dressing and manifested no surprise that the car awaited his pleasure. "Yes, of course," he remarked absently. "You can always rely on Abe.
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