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They carried the candle to every nook and corner of the cloisters, no result arising from it. Hamish and Tom climbed over and searched the burial-ground. He was not there. No signs, for their keen eyes, or for any others, remained of the night's work: the college boys were cautious. A couple of matches, half-burnt, lay on the ground in the north quadrangle, but they told nothing.
"Not that. That alone would have been nothing; but, coupled with other circumstances, it assumed a certain weight. Hamish, I will tell you. Do you remember the trouble you were in at the time owing money in the town?" A smile parted Hamish's lips; he seemed half inclined to make fun of the reminiscence. "I remember it well enough. What of that?"
Papa must have been thinking of that when he thanked God that the trouble had not fallen upon Hamish." "Did he do that?" asked Arthur, eagerly. "Yes, just now. 'Thank God that the cloud did not fall upon Hamish! he exclaimed. 'It had been far worse for us then." Arthur listened. Had he wanted anything to confirm him in the sacrifice he was making, those words of his father's would have done it.
Alfred Dove who was a shade coarser than Mr. Dove, if anything unless prepared to say that security could be given. His father's he thought he might command: but he was not sure of that, under present circumstances, without first speaking to Hamish. He turned his steps to Guild Street, his unhappy position pressing with unusual weight upon his feelings.
It was in vain that Hamish proved to him that in doctrine and discipline in everything, indeed, except one thing, which could not affect them in this country the new folk were just like the old. This only made the matter less excusable in the eyes of Angus Dhu.
It was a new kind of arithmetic, his friend Rugg, the peddler, told him. He knew Hamish liked that sort of thing, and so he had brought it to him. Hamish was quite occupied with it. He forgot the hay, and the rain, and even his own rheumatic pains, in the interest with which he pored over it. Shenac did not grudge him his pleasure.
Her cheeks are too sun-browned for the cheeks of an actress. "Well, sir?" Hamish said, at length; and Macleod started. "Very well, then," he said, impatiently, "why don't you go on deck and find out where the leakage of the skylight is?" Hamish was not used to being addressed in this fashion, and walked away with a proud and hurt air.
"Oh, Keith!" said she, "the whole house is in commotion; and Hamish is for murdering some of the lads; and there is no one would dare to bring the news to you. The two young buzzards have escaped!" "I know it," he said. "I let them out myself."
"You told me at Borcette that you were fully persuaded of Arthur's innocence; you were ready to ridicule me for casting a doubt upon it," Mr. Channing remarked to him in a low tone, as they crossed the hall. "I have never been otherwise than persuaded of it," said Mr. Huntley. "He is innocent as you, or as I." "And yet you join Mr. Galloway in assuming that he and Hamish sent back the money!
But her life told what her lips could not, and in a thousand ways it became evident to those at home, and to all who saw her, that something had happened to Shenac that she was at peace with herself and with all the world as she had not been before; and as for Hamish, he said to himself many a time, "It does not matter what happens to Shenac now. All will be well with her, now and always."
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