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I'll jist gang and see what's the mischeef." He was moving away, but Lady Florimel stopped him. "No, no, Malcolm!" she said. "It's very silly of me, I dare say; but I've been so frightened. They're such a set of geese Mrs Courthope, and the butler, and all of them! Don't leave me, please." "I maun gang and see what's amiss, my leddy," answered Malcolm; "but ye can come wi' me gien ye like.
When the cook said she didna think muckle o' John Knox, and the ither that she wouldna give saxpence tae hear the discourse o' Maister Donald McSnaw o' the true kirk, I kenned it was time for me tae leave them tae a higher Judge. There was four in family, the general, my leddy, Maister Mordaunt, and Miss Gabriel, and it wasna long before I found that a' wasna just exactly as it should be.
Miss Delacour put on her 'thistle' gown, assisted by Magsie, who ingratiatingly declared that she looked 'that weel ye hardly kent her. 'You are a good girl, Margaret, answered Miss Delacour, 'and if I can I will help you in life. 'Thank ye, my leddy; thank ye.
Then, realizing the fact, he gave expression to his feeling by grinning in a convulsive kind of way and clapping her once or twice on the shoulder next him. "Od! I niver! Didna the leddy " Baubie cut him short. "Sed I widna bide," she observed curtly and significantly.
He seemed to be wondering if she were not making sport of him. "Why should I carry a six-shooter if I did not?" he asked. This convinced her that his revolver was a part of his play cowboy costume. He had come out of the East thinking that desperado etiquette of the Bad Lands was opéra bouffe. "Leddy is a dead shot. He will give you no chance!" she insisted. "I should think not," Jack mused.
I again attempted to bring him back to the subject of Diana; but although on most occasions and subjects he used a freedom of speech which I had no great delight in listening to, yet upon that alone which was most interesting to me, he kept a degree of scrupulous reserve, and contented himself with intimating, "that he hoped the leddy would be soon in a quieter country than this was like to be for one while."
"As lang's yer lordship likes Will I gang an' walk aboot, mem my leddy, till his lordship's made up his min'? Wad that please him, duv ye think?" he said, in the tone of one who seeks advice. But the girl only smiled, and the marquis said, "Go to the devil." "I maun luik to yer lordship for the necessar' directions," rejoined Malcolm.
There was murder, murder from behind, in the catlike quickness of his movement; but Jim Galway was equally quick. He threw his whole weight toward Leddy in a catapult leap, as he grasped Leddy's wrist and bore it down. Jack faced about in alert readiness.
"No," said Lady Florimel consequentially; "the difference is not so great as to prevent their meeting on a level of courtesy." "I dinna freely ken what that means; but gien 't be yer leddyship's wull to mak a yerl o' me, I'm no to raise ony objections." He uttered it definitively, and stood silent. "Well?" said the girl. "What's yer wull, my leddy?" returned Malcolm, as if roused from a reverie.
But what if Betty should take a fancy to change her bed? or some friend of his grannie's should come to spend the night? How would the bonny leddy like it? What a risk she would run! If he put her under the bed, the mice would get at her strings nay, perhaps, knaw a hole right through her beautiful body.
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