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"Come and sit down a little, Ranald," she said, kindly; "I have got some books here for you and Don to read." But Ranald would not sit, nor would he wait a moment. "Thank you, ma'am," he said, "but I will need to be going." "Wait, Ranald, a moment," cried Mrs. Murray. She ran into the next room, and in a few moments returned with two or three books and some magazines.
If I might be allowed I'd quote unto you the words which a pretty American girl once used when I asked if I might kiss her 'Wade right in, Bub!" "'Fraid I can't 'wade in' till seven o'clock er Ross-Ellison," answered the horribly embarrassed Major Ranald. "It won't be long." "Right O, I was only thinking of your convenience.
And Ranald gladly listened to her, and threw himself into his study, using his spare hours to such good purpose throughout the summer that he easily kept pace with the class in English, and distanced them in his favorite subject, mathematics. But all these months Mrs. Murray felt that Ranald was carrying with him a load of unrest, and she waited for the time when he would come to her.
I mention these opinions of my father, lest anyone should misjudge the fact of his talking to me as he did. Our horses made very slow progress. It was almost nowhere possible to trot, and we had to plod on, step by step. This made it more easy to converse. "The country looks dreary, doesn't it, Ranald?" he said. "Just like as if everything was dead, father," I replied.
"That's what the canoe did," and then he proceeded to give a graphic account of his varied adventures by land and water during the last six months. As they neared Mr. Raymond's house, Ranald turned to Coley and said: "Now I want you to cut back to the Institute and tell Mr. Locke, if he is there, that I would like him to call around at my office to-morrow.
"Save us from starvation, Ranald," said Ethered, laughing ruefully, "and we will raise a big stone heap here in your honour." "Kolgrim will show you," I said; "let me go to the king." "I am a great ice fisherman," said Harek; "let me go also." Then Heregar laughed in lightness of heart. "Ay, wizard, go also. There will be charms of some sort needed before Ethered sees so much as a scale."
"You are a wiser man than I thought you, Ranald," she said; and so she went from me, and I stayed by the fire, thinking thoughts that were sweet and yet troublous, for beyond tomorrow's fight I could not see. Then the lady came back, and with her she brought a little glove, worn and shapely from the hand that it belonged to. "She bids me give this to her king and warrior," Etheldreda said.
He had little respect for a man who did not know when he had had enough. "What about his job?" he asked. "His job? Oh, I see. His job doesn't worry him much. He's absent on sick-leave. But he's all fit again and I know he will be disappointed if you do not come to-morrow." "I will not go," said Ranald, with final decision, "and you can tell him so, and you can tell him why."
Sir Reginald was there, occupying the centre position, with those of his younger brother, Mr Herbert Castleton, with his wife and their two children, the long lost Ranald, and their daughter Ellen, hers executed when she had just reached her sixteenth summer, and Ranald when he was about nineteen. The features of Ellen fully bore out the description which Dame Halliburt had given of her beauty.
"And when will that be?" interrupted a shareholder, scornfully. "I have every assurance," said Ranald, quietly, "from the premier himself, that the building of the railroad will be started this fall." "Did Sir John A. MacDonald give you a definite promise?" asked the man, in surprise. "Not exactly a promise," said Ranald. A chorus of scornful "Ohs" greeted this admission.
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