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Ninian rolled on the ground and laughed afresh; then feebly observed: "That's what I generally do with mine. But pockets! What of them?" "Huh! it's all very well for you to lie there and snicker. I lost the chance of my life that time. What's the use of a repertation for hittin' a pin at the distance I have if you can't hit a fool when he's close alongside?"
And the legend of his slumber seems to body forth the story of that Celtic race, deprived for so many centuries of their authentic speech, surviving with their ancestral inheritance of melancholy perversity and patient, unfortunate courage. Ninian Traquair was "cruallie slochtered" by the Crozers at the kirk-door of Balweary, anno 1482.
But he could not remember it. "Odd that I never heard of her before." He put on his dressing-gown, and opened the door of his room. "I'll ask old Ninian," he said, as he went out. Ninian, who had been yawning so heavily downstairs, was now sitting up in bed, reading a copy of the Engineer. "Hilloa," he exclaimed as Henry entered the room in response to his "Come in!"
"We'd better get some one to look after her," Gilbert proposed when Ninian had gone. "Magnolia's no damn good!..." "No, sir, I ain't ... not with dead people I ain't!" "Clear out, Magnolia!" Gilbert shouted at her. "Go and make the beds or sit in the kitchen or something!" "Yes, sir, certainly, sir!" Magnolia answered, and then she left the room.
There was a noise like the sound of a taxi-cab drawing up in front of the house, and presently the bell rang, and then, after a moment or two, the door opened, and Mrs. Graham came hurrying into the room. "Ninian! Where's Ninian?" she said wildly to Henry. "He's here, Mrs. Graham!" She went to him and clutched him tightly to her. "Oh, my dear, my dear," she said.
Remember Mullally, the ... the boiled worm!" he continued, "an' say you won't go!" "But my father was at Oxford," said Roger quietly. "Your father was a parson and didn't know any better," Gilbert replied. "And that reminds me, if one of us becomes a parson, the rest of us give him the chuck. Is that agreed?" Ninian held up both his hands. "Carried unanimous!" he said. "I don't know!"
Henry had exclaimed in astonishment. And then he remembered that Harper spoke of fairies as intimately as other men speak of their friends.... "Good God!" he thought, "where am I?" and wondered what Ninian Graham would make of Ernest Harper.
The little burn, or brook, of Bannock, running through rugged ground covered with wood, protected his right, and the village of St. Ninian was in front. He divided his little army into four parts: the first under his brother Edward; the second under Douglas and young Walter, High Steward of Scotland; the third under Randolph; and the fourth body, the reserve, under his own command.
"It'll get there just as soon if you post it to-morrow," said Gilbert. Mary left them. "I'm going up to mother," she said, as she got up from the tea table. "She's awfully sorry she couldn't be down to welcome you," she added to Henry who had moved to open the door for her. "I hope she'll soon be better," he answered. When she had gone, Ninian got up and cursed lustily.
"That child," said Ina, "must not see so much of that Larkin boy. She's just a little, little girl." "Of course she mustn't," said Dwight sharply, "and if I was her mother " "Oh stop that!" said Ina, sotto voce, at the church steps. To every one with whom they spoke in the aisle after church, Ina announced their news: Had they heard? Lulu married Dwight's brother Ninian in the city yesterday.
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