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Chairman, I move that Colonel Peavy and Amos Ridings escort the nominee to the platform." The motion was put and carried amid laughter. As they dragged Bradley out of his chair and pushed him up the aisle, everybody laughed and cheered. William Councill kicked the Colonel as he went past and Robie hit him a sounding slap between the shoulders. The Colonel bore it all with astonishing good nature.
But, oh! how how shall I tell you the rest! I had hardly looked upon the face of the younger stranger, when I saw my own features in the countenance of my long lost Robie! The lady was his wife the Count's bonny daughter; and the bairns were their bairns.
Thank God, I am rich enough to pay you well for taking such a fearful risk and shall be only too glad to reward your unselfish deed." "Not a shilling!" replied Robie proudly. "I am not doing this thing for pay. It is for the old Captain's little girl, that I have held in these arms many a day and for the old Captain himself.
'Come down by the beech trunk you must leave no footprint in the border- -quickly, before Robie can get back! I am the hen-wife here: I keep the key; you must go into the hen-house for the moment. I was by her side at once. Both cast a hasty glance at the blank windows of the cottage and so much as was visible of the garden alleys; it seemed there was none to observe us.
I recollect when I was there last, for it's some years since Government first sot up the Spy System; there was a great feed given to a Mr. Robe, or Robie, or some such name, an out and out Tory.
I will tell her all about my discovering you, and about your answers, and the cheering of the volunteers; and the officers coming up and taking your hand, and congratulating me upon having such a son. O Robie, man! I will tell her everything! It will be such a meeting as there has not been in the memory of man.
Fraser, tells me that by my looks and speaking he cannot think me so ill as imagined. You will think the same by my writing the above. It is a satisfaction to me to have been able to write this letter, such as it is. And now I have nothing but Compts. and love to send to all my friends to Robie Hepburn as my oldest and nearest my heart my blessings to his family, as to the Kers and Congaltons.
"Of course it is," he replied, "just uncle Robie. The old captain never went to sea that Robie Foster did not go as first mate. And a blessed day it was when I came to be first mate of this jail-ship; though I never thought to see the old captain's bonnie bird among my boarders." "And do you think I really am a witch, uncle Robie?" "Of course ye are.
"O Robie, my bairn! my only bairn!" cried she, weeping, and addressing our son, "try ye to prevail upon your faither to gie up his mad resolution. If he leave us, he will mak you faitherless and me a widow." "Mother," said the laddie, gallantly, "the French are landed, and my faither maun help to drive them into the sea.
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