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Katie worked all day and watched all night, and scorned the idea of weariness, but the Ythan water that trickled around her milk-pans in the dairy, carried daily some tears of hers down to the Black Pool. "It is grandfather I'm thinking about," said she one day when she burst out crying in Miss Betsey's sight.
It seemed to her the strangest thing that her grandfather should speak to her in this way, and that she should have courage to answer him. He sat down on a seat by the door, and leaned his chin on the hand that rested on his staff, and looked away over Ythan fields to the hills beyond.
Nor was there; but the rich man had spoken of a possible visit to Canada during the summer, and he had promised that if this took place he should come to Gershom and discuss the matter of the mills on the spot, and though Jacob said little about it, he permitted himself to hope much from the visit. The season opened cheerfully at Ythan Brae.
The younger children were not yet considered to be beyond such teaching as they had at the Scott school-house, so that there had been little coming and going to the village, and all the talk that had been indulged in there as to their affairs had hurt no one at Ythan. They had their own talks, that is, Davie and Katie had.
I cannot bear to hear you say such things, as though we were just trying him." "Well, and is not that just what we are bidden do? It's no' me that is saying grandfather is to be forsaken in his old age." "And I'm sure its no' me. Grandfather forsaken! Never. And, Davie, the loss of Ythan even wouldna mean that to grandfather.
And you'll need grace and wisdom from above, as well, whether your work lie in high places with the great men of the earth, or just sowing and reaping in Ythan Brae. And as for Katie and her care of you, there's many a true word spoken in jest, and you maun be a good laddie, Davie."
It was not known whether they had gone together, but Jacob soon came home again, and as far as he was concerned, everything was as before. But after a time there came heavy tidings to Ythan Brae. Hugh Fleming was dead in the very flower of his youth "with all his sins on his head;" his father cried out in the agony of the knowledge.
The machine was brought to Ythan that night, and when Mr Fleming came out in the morning operations had long been commenced in Mr Hemmenway's best style, and Davie was occupying his place on the high seat of the machine, and driving "the team" steadily round the great square, which was growing beautifully less at every turn. Not quite the whole neighbourhood came to look on, but a good many did.
And then the river bank on the Varney place was not, in Mr Holt's opinion, the best place for the new mills and the new village. It was not to be compared to the point just below which Bear's Creek, or, as the Flemings called it, Ythan Brae, flowed into the Beaver, and this also belonged to Mr Fleming. Jacob would have liked to make his beginning there.
The success of this visit encouraged Clifton to try more in the minister's company. For a reason that it was not difficult to understand, Jacob in his rounds had not taken him to visit at Mr Fleming's, nor had any one else, and Clifton, remembering his own visit there, took the introduction of Mr Maxwell at Ythan Brae into his own hands, and Elizabeth went with him.
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