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"We couldna very weel. It's to be a three-cornered fight, an' Robert Duncan, brother to Tammas, has it sure." "'Twad be a good one on McCakeron," Neil mused. "To talk up Dunlop, who doesna care a cent for the eldership, an' then spring the Apoos-tate on him." "'Twould be bitter on 'Twenty-One," the cap'en added. He had been diddled by Sandy on a deal of seed-wheat.
I'm terrible i' the drink. I might beat ye." Janet complacently surveyed an arm that was thick as a club from heavy choring. "I'll tak chances o' that." Saunders's heart sank into his boots; but, wiping the sweat from his brow, he made one last desperate effort: "But ye're promised to the the Apoos-tate." "I am no. Father broke that off." Saunders shot his last bolt. "I believe I'm fickle, Janet.
And the name stuck, and he was no more known as the "Englisher." "Any letters for the Apoos-tate?" The postmaster would mouth the question, repeating it after Timmins when he called for his mail. Small boys yelled the obnoxious title as he passed the log school on the corner; wee girls gazed after him, fascinated, as upon one destined for a headlong plunge into the lake of fire and brimstone.
I'd as lief ... as lief ... elect ..." "... the Apoos-tate," said the Devil, though Neil thought that Saunders was talking. "Ay, the Apoos-tate," he agreed. "It wad be a fine joke," the Devil went on by the mouth of Saunders, "to run the Apoos-tate agin' his candidate. McCakeron canna thole the man." "But what if he was elected?" the mariner objected. The Devil was charged with glib argument.
But though, following the cap'en's advice, he joined himself to the elect of Zorra, his change of faith brought him only a change of name. Elder McCakeron officiated at the "christening" which took place in the crowded market the day after Timmins's name had been spread on the kirk register. "An' how is the apoos-tate the morning?" the elder inquired, meeting Timmins.
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