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But Ailsa was pleased. That was his great concern. Ailsa was living the life he had always desired for her, and he was free to roam the wilderness at his will. He blessed the day that had brought Murray McTavish into the enterprise. Just now Allan had been away from the Fort nearly the whole of the open season. His return was awaited by all.
I remember one lovely moonlight evening, off the Irish coast, when our ship was slipping along before a light westerly air, just enough of it for everything to draw, and the ship as steady as Ailsa Crag, so that everybody got on deck, even the chronically sea-sick passengers of the steerage.
He was in a blind fury, and scarcely knew what he was doing, when he swung round and fired at a hare behind him...." There was a moment's intense pause before he finished in a low voice "and the shot killed the poor girl he was to have married in a week." "O, how terrible!..." Ailsa gasped, and went white to the lips. "How terrible! Poor man! O, poor man!"
Kenric looked to the crowd that stood behind the judge's seat, and there he saw Ailsa Redmain standing with her brother Allan; and Ailsa's eyes glistened with approval of what Kenric had just spoken, and he took new courage. "Men of Bute," said Sir Oscar Redmain, turning to the ruthmen, "ye have heard what has passed. It is now for you to pronounce judgment upon the accused man. What say you?"
Then a pocket torch spat out a sudden ray of light; and by it both the half-throttled boy and the wholly frightened girl could see the man who had thus intruded himself upon their notice. "Oh, it is you it is you again, Mr. Cleek?" said Ailsa with something between a laugh and a sigh of relief as she recognized him.
The ghost of a smile a grim one altered the Colonel's expression for a second, then faded. He looked at Ailsa curiously. Then: "Have you anything to tell me that perhaps I may be entitled to know about, Ailsa?" "No." "I see. I beg your pardon. If you ever are perplexed in doubt I shall always " "Thank you," she said faintly. . . . "And I am so sorry "
Anything that I perhaps have a faint shadow of a right to know?" For a long time they rode in silence, her question unanswered. A narrow cart road less of a road than a lane led east. He turned his horse into it. For a moment no sound broke the silence save the monotonous clank of his sabre and the creak of girth and saddle. "Ailsa!" "Yes, Phil."
Benton passed them by the stables, but they knew only that Colonel Arran, lying on a litter, had been placed in an ambulance which had started for Azalea Court House. This was confirmed by Dr. Connor, who came hurrying by and who halted to scowl heartily at Ailsa. "No more of that!" he said roughly. "When I want a nurse on the firing line I'll detail her.
The living-room in Ailsa Mowbray's home was full of that comfort which makes life something more than a mere existence in places where the elements are wholly antagonistic. The big square wood-stove was tinted ruddily by the fierce heat of the blazing logs within. Carefully trimmed oil lamps shed a mellow, but ample, light upon furnishings of unusual quality.
And by the same mail came the first letter Ailsa had been well enough to write him since her transfer North on the transport Long Branch.
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