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Instead of going home after school to cool his heels in the road until his mother came from the fields, he found it neighbourly to go up to Ballajora and round by the network of paths to Cornaa. That was a long detour, but Cæsar's mill stood there. It nestled down in the low bed of the river that runs through the glen called Ballaglass.
To this he replied, with a roll of the head and a peal of laughter, "Have I now? But you'll die for all." Ballajora Chapel had been three months rehearsing a children's cantata entitled "Under the Palms," and building an arbour of palm branches on a platform for Pete's rugged form to figure in; but Cæsar sat there instead. Still, Pete had his six thousand pounds in mortgage on Ballawhaine.
She was the daughter of Cæsar the Cornaa miller, the founder of Ballajora Chapel, and a mighty man among the Methodists. Katherine went unpunished, but that was the end of Pete's schooling. His learning was not too heavy for a big lad's head to carry a bit of reading if it was all in print, and no writing at all except half-a-dozen capital letters.
They had built a porch for shelter to the chapel, and carved the figure of a slaughtered lamb on a stone in the gable. Another lamb a living lamb was being killed by the butcher of Ballajora as Philip went by the shambles.
He took the road that Pete had haunted as a boy on returning home from school in the days when Kate lived at Cornaa, going through the network of paths by the mill, and over the brow by Ballajora. The new miller was pulling down the thatched cottage in which Kate had been born to put up a slate house.
Last night going home from Ballajora, I saw the corpse-lights coming from the big house to Kirk Christ's Churchyard, with the parson psalming in front of them. The ould man's dying -I've seen his soul. To thy name, O Lord, be all the glory." Pete sold out a second room, and turned the key on it. "Mortal cosy and small this big, ugly mansion is getting, Nancy," he said.
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