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The soutar's humour, however, aided by his violin, was a strong antidote against these evil influences. 'I doobt I'm gaein' to dee, Robert, he said at length one evening as the lad sat by his bedside. 'Weel, that winna do ye nae ill, answered Robert, adding with just a touch of bitterness 'ye needna care aboot that. 'I do not care aboot the deein' o' 't.
'Gude nicht to ye, said Robert, with the fiddle-case under his arm. The shoemaker looked up, with his hands bound in his threads. 'Ye're no gaein' to tak her frae me the nicht? 'Ay am I, but I'll fess her back again. I'm no gaein' to Jericho wi' her. 'Gang to Hecklebirnie wi' her, and that's three mile ayont hell. 'Na; we maun win farther nor that. There canna, be muckle fiddlin' there.
"'Pon ma life, he's gaein' daft!" was his comment as he turned away to Kenmuir. And again the mourners were left alone. "A few hours noo, Wullie," the little man wailed, "and she'll be gane. We won her, Wullie, you and I, won her fair: she's lit the hoose for us; she's softened a' for us and God kens we needed it; she was the ae thing we had to look to and love.
Haud ye the licht upo' yer ain face, lass, an' there 's feow 'll hae the hert to luik again." "Haith, mem, there's twa sic like o' 's!" returned Jean bitterly, and bounced from the room. "That's true tu," said her mistress adding after the door was shut, "It's a peety we cudna haud on thegither." "I'm gaein' noo, Jean," she called into the kitchen as she crossed the threshold at eight o'clock.
But, 'deed, it's that onygait, forit's nigh whaur ye tak yer walks abro'd. But gien ye war to luik in at the door, and cry, Steenie! sune wud ye see whether I was in the hoose or no! I thank ye sair for this hoose: I'm gaein to hae a rich and a happy time upo' this hill o' Zion, whaur the feet o' the ae man gangs walkin!
He had ridden but a short distance when he was overtaken by a boy on a fast pony, who pulled up as he neared him. "Whaur are ye for?" asked Malcolm. "I'm gaein' for Mistress Cat'nach," answered the boy. "Gang yer w'ys than, an' dinna haud the deid waitin'," said Malcolm with a shudder. The boy cast a look of dismay behind him and galloped off. The snow still fell and the night was dark.
"Why, ye see, as I've telt ye, I'm booked to ship wi' the black `sheik' I've heerd them ca' him. Well, from what I ha'e seed and heerd there's nae doot they're gaein' to separate an' tak different roads. I didna ken muckle o' what they saved, but I could mak oot two words I ha'e often heerd while cruisin' in the Gulf o' Guinea.
He made straucht for the bed, as I thoucht. The Lord preserve's! thoucht I, is he gaein to lie doon wi' 's ain corp? but he turnt awa', an' roon' the fit o' the bed to the ither side o' 't, an' I saw nae mair; an' for a while, auntie Jean sat her lane wi' the deid, for I lay upo' the flure, an' naither h'ard nor saw.
As they took leave of each other a little later than they had intended, Mrs. Bremner cast a glance at the gathering clouds, and said, 'I doobt, lassie, it's gaein to ding on afore the nicht! I wuss we war hame the twa o' 's! Gien it cam on to snaw and blaw baith, we micht hae ill winnin there! 'Noucht's to fear, auntie, returned Phemy. 'It's a heap ower warm to snaw.
''Cause theirs was a great muckle toon, wi' sic a heap o' hooses that there wasna room for kirkyards; sae they tuik them ootside the toon, and gaed aneth wi' them a'thegither. For there they howkit a lot o' passages like trances, and here and there a wee roomy like, wi' ither trances gaein frae them this gait and that.
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