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The chiefs replied, they had no complaints to make against any one, but intended to go a-hunting early the next morning. Captain Nairn accordingly went to sleep, and the traders retired to their huts, and passed the night in seeming friendship and tranquillity. But next morning, about the break of day, being the 15th day of April, 1715, all were alarmed with the cries of war.
Lord Nairn had been educated to the naval service, and had distinguished himself for bravery. He refused the oaths at the Revolution, and consequently did not take his seat in Parliament. His wife, Margaret, appears to have shared in her husband's enthusiasm, and to have resembled him in courage. In the Earl of Mar's correspondence frequent allusion is made to her under the name of Mrs. Mellor.
Ye're no far from a genius!" "Thanks. I believe I succeeded better than I could have expected, and perhaps than I deserved." They were interrupted then by Nairn, who came hastily into the room. "There's one of the Atlin deck-hands below," he announced. "He's come on here from Horsfield's to say that the boat's ready with a full head of steam up, and the packers ye hired are waiting on the wharf."
Nairn had told her; but, although she had on one occasion had the testimony of her eyes in support of it, Jessy's first statement seemed incredible. "It's impossible!" Jessy smiled in a bitter manner. "It's unpleasant, but it can't be denied. He undoubtedly pays the rent of a shack in the neighborhood I mentioned." Evelyn sat tensely still for a moment or two.
Nairn followed Jessy's retreating figure with distrustful eyes. "Weel," he drawled, "I'm thinking yon besom may have had a hand in the thing." A few minutes later Jessy, standing where the light of a big lamp streamed down upon her through the boughs of a leafless maple, bade Vane farewell at her brother's gate.
She looked at him fixedly, and, to his annoyance, he felt his face grow hot. Mrs. Nairn had quick perceptions, and now and then she was painfully direct. "It struck me that Evelyn was not very comfortable there," he replied. "She seemed out of harmony with her people she didn't belong. The same thing," he went on lamely, "applies to Mopsy." Mrs. Nairn glanced at him with a twinkle in her eyes.
Nairn had done good service to his adopted country, developing her industries with some profit to himself, for he was of Scottish extraction; but, while close at a bargain, he could be generous afterward. In the beginning, he had fought sternly for his own hand, and it was supposed that Mrs.
It remained to adjust the representation of Scotland in the united Parliament. It was at first proposed to allow only thirty-eight members, but the number was finally raised to forty-five. Thirty of these represented the shires. Each shire was to elect one representative, except the three groups of Bute and Caithness, Clackmannan and Kinross, and Nairn and Cromarty.
Nairn had given him a kindly send-off; but nobody appeared in the lighted hall, and after another word with Nairn he went moodily down the steps to join Jessy and Carroll, who were waiting for him below. As the group walked down the garden path, Mrs. Nairn looked at her husband. "I do not know what has come over Evelyn this night," she remarked.
"Nairn promised me an astonishment this evening, but it exceeds all my expectations," he said. "How are your people?" Evelyn informed him that their health was satisfactory and added, watching him the while: "Gerald sent his best remembrances." "Thank you," Vane responded in a casual manner; "I am glad to have them."
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