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Even in the moment of danger and utmost excitement he could not refuse tribute to the enemy. Nevertheless he snatched up a rifle and was firing as fast as he could into the gray ranks. John and Carstairs were doing the same and the trench held by the Strangers was a continuous red blaze. There was so much fire and smoke and so much whirling snow that John could not see clearly.
Do you know that until yon Sir Gilbert Carstairs came here, not so long since, to take up his title and his house and the estate, he'd never set foot in the place, never been near the place, this thirty year? Man! his own father, old Sir Alec, and his own sister, Mrs. Ralston of Craig, had never clapped eyes on him since he went away from Hathercleugh a youngster of one-and-twenty!"
Hare turned, with only a polite show of reluctance to his host and Miss Carstairs, and drew near. Politics interested him far more than the staunchest ship that ever sailed.
"I have; and I cannot say anything more. You must let me go in." "If they say that it's all right at Carstairs, then will you love me?" "They won't say that it's all right; and papa won't think that it's right. It's very wrong. You haven't been to Oxford yet, and you'll have to remain there for three years. I think it's very ill-natured of you to come and talk to me like this.
He took out of his package a heart-shaped pendant, with a much-worn gold chain attached to it, and turned it over to show an engraved inscription on the reverse side. "There's the motto," he said. "You see Who Will, Shall. Whose is it?" "God bless us!" exclaimed Mr. Portlethorpe. "The Carstairs motto! Aye! their motto for many a hundred years! Lindsey, this is an extraordinary thing!
"But you've got a little Helen, too, haven't you?" interposed the little girl with wisdom and tact beyond her years. "Yes." "And you said she was very poor and had no Christmas." "Yes." "For her sake, John," said William Carstairs. "Indeed you must not think you have been punished alone. I have been punished, too. I'll help you begin again. Here" he stepped closer to his brother "is my hand."
And we shall be placed in a very unenviable position if Sir Gilbert Carstairs turns up with a perfectly good explanation of all this mystery." Mr. Lindsey pointed a finger at me. "He can't explain that!" he exclaimed. "He left that lad to drown! Is that attempted murder, or isn't it? I tell you, I'll have that man in the dock never mind who he is! Hugh, pass me the railway guide."
Insist on his getting in touch with Glasgow it's there, without doubt, that Lady Carstairs went off, and where Sir Gilbert would meet her; let him start inquiries about the shipping offices and the like. And that's all and get your bit of sleep."
"And where does this come from?" said the man, flinging his arm up and confronting the magnificent room. "It came from the old farm. There was oil on it and I sold it for a great price. I was happily married. I came here and have been successful in business. Half of it all is yours." "I won't take it." "John," said William Carstairs, "I offered you money once and you struck it out of my hand.
Her doing menial work about the house would injure no one. It is her presence there, the presence of a woman who has falsely pretended to be married, when she knew very well that she had no husband." "When she knew that she had two," said Lady Margaret. "And fancy, Lady Margaret, Lady Bracy absolutely asked her to go to Carstairs! That woman was always infatuated about Dr. Wortle.
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