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It was at Balliol, at the Master's table, and in the early Oxford days, that we first made friends with Lord and Lady Wemyss, who were staying with the Master for the Sunday. I was sitting next to Lord Wemyss, and he presently discovered that I was absent-minded. And I found him so attractive and so human that I soon told him why.
I saw a pale, grave face, and recognised Evan Charteris, who had come in Lady Wemyss' brougham to meet me. I said: "Is she dead? "To which he answered: "'No, but very, very ill. "We drove in silence to 4 Upper Brook Street. Papa, Jack and Godfrey Webb stood in the hall. They stopped me as I passed and said: 'She is no worse'; but I could not listen.
There was need of none. At Varna and in the little towns along the Illyrian coast his pupil and he had often had to share far humbler accommodation. For though Julian Wemyss lived apart from the world, he kept a small yacht to keep him in comfortable touch with the outside markets. The passage to Glasgow was an easy one. A place had been set at dinner for Patsy, but it remained empty.
"The plot thickens," said the intendant; "and by this letter from my correspondent, Ashley Cooper, I find that the king's army is well appointed, and that David Lesley is lieutenant-general; Middleton commands the horse, and Wemyss the artillery. That Wemyss is certainly a good officer, but was not true to the late king: may he behave better to the present!
Early the next month Robert Stevenson must proceed upon his voyage of inspection, part by land, part by sea. 'MY DEAREST JEANNIE, While the people of the inn are getting me a little bit of something to eat, I sit down to tell you that I had a most excellent passage across the water, and got to Wemyss at mid- day.
"You will spend it, my dear," he said smilingly, "that and far more. London is a great place for running away with money! There are so many pretty things to buy." "Can't I give some of it to Stair Garland and his sister Jean?" "I have no doubt that you would like to," said her uncle. "Was there ever a Wemyss yet who could be trusted not to throw away money?
Julian Wemyss of Auchenyards and Wellwood and the best man in the world the wisest too!" He bowed low and withdrew. The lieutenant of the Britomart and the Superintendent of Enlistments were in a state of incipient lunacy. Oh, the fool! They would break him if they could. They would write to the Secretary.
I shall still look forward to seeing you with Lady Wemyss. Believe me always, Yours affectionately, BALLIOL COLLEGE, Sep. 8,1892. Your kind letter was a very sweet consolation to me. It was like you to think of a friend in trouble. Poor Nettleship, whom we have lost, was a man who cannot be replaced certainly not in Oxford. He was a very good man, and had a considerable touch of genius in him.
These vessels were manned by a detachment of his regiment under the following officers: viz.: Major Alexander Heron, Captain Desbrisay, Lieutenant Mackay, Lieutenant Tamser, Ensign Hogan, Ensign Sterling, and Ensigns Wemyss and Howarth, and Adjutant Maxwell; Thomas Eyre, Surgeon and Mate; six sergeants, six corporals, five drummers, and one hundred and twenty-five privates.
Ferris of Cairn Ferris," said the Princess Elsa. "I have never seen your beautiful land, but the best and wisest men I have known have belonged to your nation the courtliest and truest gentlemen, both with sword and tongue." She was silent a moment, and both Patsy Ferris and her father understood that she was thinking of Julian Wemyss.
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