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Amos and Aubrey released their hold, Kathleen screamed with excitement, and away bounded the goats down the driveway, with Sir Wemyss after them on horseback, for fear anything might happen. But nothing did happen, and in ten minutes back they came to receive congratulations from everybody. "Are they all right, Billy?" I cried. "Yes, Miss Tats.
I never have, but I know I could. Anyhow I mean to try. To-morrow, let's go at it and prune the trees." "It is not the proper season to prune trees," observed Sir Wemyss. "That should be done in the early spring, before the sap begins to run." Jimmie looked disappointed.
He has wirelessed back asking me, on political grounds, to delay removing the troops "until our attack is renewed in a few days' time." Bravo, the Admiral! Still; if there are to be even a few days' delay I must land somewhere as mules and horses are dying. And, practically, Alexandria is the only port possible. Wemyss has just sent me over the following letter.
I said, "Yes," and that the Navy were with me in that view, a statement confirmed by de Robeck and Wemyss who nodded their heads. Birdwood said he only wanted to be quite clear about it, and there the matter dropped. Actually I had thought a lot about that possibility. To a man of my temperament there was every temptation to have a go in and revenge the loss of the battleships forthwith.
French Fleet, General d'Amade, General Braithwaite, Admiral Wemyss, Captain Pollen, Myself. De Robeck greeted me in the friendliest fashion. He is a fine looking man with great charm of manner. After a word or two to d'Amade and being introduced to Wemyss, Guépratte and Keyes, we sat down round a table and the Admiral began.
"'It's a curious fact, observed the Lord Lieutenant to me, 'and one which Wemyss Reid specially notes in his biography, that my father produced the greater part of his poetry between 1830 and 1840, just when he was going most into Society." "And you've gone in a good deal for writing verses yourself, following in your father's footsteps, have you not, Mrs.
Wemyss sat at the end of the table nearest to the fire. "Eben," said Stair Garland, setting his elbows squarely on the table and leaning forward, "you are an intelligent man and you will understand that since the Bothy has been surrounded by an armed force and we may expect an assault any hour, your position has very much changed. We took you, to a very great extent, on your own statement.
But fortunately the English are a sensible race, and Sir Wemyss and his bride, perhaps because of the reasonable way the duchess came around when she found her daughter bent upon marrying Sir Wemyss, were so good-humoured and so plainly determined to see naught but good in America and naught but fun in Americans that they took everything in good part.
Lady Mary made the acquaintance in 1758 of Sir James Steuart, and his wife, Lady Frances, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Wemyss and sister of the Jacobite Lord Elcho. Steuart, when making the grand tour, had met the exiled Stuarts at Rome, and had become attached to their cause. When the Young Pretender landed in Scotland in 1745, Steuart threw in his lot with him.
There was never a man more beloved more deeply mourned. The autumn of 1896 brought me a great loss in the death of an intimate friend, Lady Wemyss as marked a personality in her own circle as was her indomitable husband, the famous Lord Elcho, of the Volunteer movement, on the bigger stage.
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