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Bruce spent the first part of his holidays in shooting, and the latter weeks in all the gaieties of a wealthy London family. He was naturally self-indulgent, and as no one urged him to make good use of his time, he devoted it to every possible amusement which riches could procure.
"I thought Johnny Gamble pushed him," humbly apologized the colonel. Bruce Townley and the Courtney girls arrived, and in the gay scramble for wraps Johnny had a moment with Constance. "Well, I lose," he said regretfully. "There isn't much chance to make that million between now and four o'clock to-morrow afternoon." "What's the difference?" inquired Constance, smiling contentedly into his eyes.
The most noteworthy of these contests in the early Norman age was the invasion under Edward Bruce, brother of the Scottish king, who brought a great fleet and army to Larne, then as now the Irish port nearest to the northern kingdom.
Early in 1306 he met Comyn, the Lord of Badenoch, to whose treachery he attributed the disclosure of his plans, in the church of the Grey Friars at Dumfries, and after the interchange of a few hot words struck him with his dagger to the ground. It was an outrage that admitted of no forgiveness, and Bruce for very safety was forced to assume the crown six weeks after in the Abbey of Scone.
In memory of this circumstance, the crest of the family of Kirkpatrick is a hand grasping a dagger distilling gouts of blood; the motto, "I mak sikkar." Before the catastrophe was known in the convent, Bruce and his friends had left it some time, and were far on their road to Lochmaben.
I tell him and thee that ere to-morrow's noon be passed the soul of Nigel Bruce shall stand in judgment; not another day, not another hour he lives to blast me with the memory of his treason. The warrant hath been signed, and is on its way to Berwick, to give his body to the hangman and his soul to Satan his death is sealed."
Why she should feel thus she could not account, "unless," said she to herself, "I fear that my suspicion may be guessed at; and should my words or looks betray the royal Bruce to any harm, that moment of undesigned ingratitude would be the last of my life." This explanation seemed ample to herself.
At times Linder and Murdoch would visit him to report progress on the Big Idea, and the three would sit on a bench in the half-built house, sweet with the fragrance of new sawdust, and smoke placidly while they determined matters of policy or administration. It had been something of a disappointment to Grant that Murdoch had not considered Phyllis Bruce one of "the family."
For I can not do you not see I can not? leave my father. Oh, it is like being pulled in two," cried Mrs. Bruce, in great distress. "Be patient, Helen, and hear. We have arranged it all, the boy and I. Next week we are both bound for St. Andrew's." "You?" "You think I shall be useless? That it is a man, and not such a creature as I, who ought to take charge of your boy?"
Sa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ave me!" "Hurrah! hurrah!" cried Bart and Bruce, in a burst of heartfelt joy. "He-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-lp!" came forth once more from Solomon. "All right," cried Bart; and at once the boat pointed towards the place where Solomon was sitting.
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