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Inglis, leaning against a post for a little while in silent prayer, looked on us and said, "The walls of Jerusalem were built in troublous times, and why not the Mission House on Tanna? But let us rest for this day, and pray for these poor Heathen." We retired to a Native house that had been temporarily granted to us for rest, and there pled before God for them all.
They will think that we are afraid." The boy stilled himself instantly at the word, and looked up at his brother with a pale sort of smile. "No, William, I am not afraid, and if indeed we must die I will not disgrace you. Be never feared of that. Yet I thought on our mother's loneliness. She will miss me sore, for she fleeched and pled with me not to come, yet I would not listen to her."
"It is an old friend merely passing through London. How wicked of me to forget that she wrote to say that she might dash in at any hour." "Please!" pled Robin, prettily. "I can run away at once. Fraulein Hirsch must have come back. Please " "The lady asked me particularly to say that she has only a few minutes to stay, as she is catching a train," the footman decorously ventured.
After a few moments the boy Ranald slipped away after him to beg that he might be allowed to go with him to-morrow. Stealing silently through the bushes he came to where he could see the kneeling figure of his uncle swaying up and down, and caught the sounds of words broken with groans: "Let me go, O Lord! Let me go!" He pled now in Gaelic and again in English.
For a month she struggled against aching silences, wild reproaches and accusations she pled with him, made quiet, pitiful little love to him, and he laughed at her bitterly and then she, too, slipped gradually into silence and a shadowy, impenetrable barrier dropped between them.
The collapse was harder and more complete than usual, and the little sufferer would have died there had he not been found by Dave and Irene in the course of their rides. Dave, after a moment's examination, drew his revolver, but Irene pled for the life of the unfortunate. "Oh, don't kill it, Dave," she cried. "You couldn't kill it! Let's get the wagon and take it home.
I raved an' prayed an' pled wi' th' lass to let me carry her across th' seas, wheer I'd heerd tell theer was help fur such loike; but she pled back i' her broken, patient way that it wouldna be reet, an' happen it wur the Lord's will. She didna say much to th' sojer. I scarce heerd her speak to him more than once, when she axed him to let her go away by hersen.
It was thought by many, that her advocate might have made great use of her visible consternation, and pled that she was by herself; for in truth she had every appearance of being so.
The Missionaries on the spot had long felt this, and had loudly and earnestly pled for a new and larger Vessel, or a Vessel with Steam Auxiliary power, or some arrangement whereby the work of God on these Islands might be overtaken, without unnecessary exposure of life, and without the dreaded perils that accrue to a small sailing Vessel such as the Dayspring alike from deadly calms and from treacherous gales.
She had pled with him before, and knelt and wept and abased herself before him. She had done all that the love that tore her heartstrings the love that made it so much more difficult to see her child suffer than to suffer herself, the love that every moment painted the bare room at home, and her daughter prostrate there in shame and despair she had done all that even love could suggest.
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