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He was not a man of many words, and he said little to anyone about his son; but in his heart he believed that he had been beguiled away by the son of Angus Bhan, and bitter resentment rose within him at the thought. A few months passed away, and there came a letter from Allister, written soon after his arrival in California. His cousin Evan Dhu was with him.
"Oh, as to his making shoes, you mind Paul made tents; and his sermons are just like other folk's sermons: I see no difference." "The texts are like other folk's, you mean," said Shenac Dhu slyly. "I daresay you take a nap when he's preaching." "No," said Shenac Bhan, not at all offended; "that's just the difference. I never sleep in the school-house.
There was no groomsman nor bridesmaid, for Shenac Bhan could hardly stand in her black dress, and Shenac Dhu would have no one else; and there were no guests out of the two families.
"Why should I not do the same?" "You are not me. Everybody has not my strength of mind," said Shenac Dhu, nodding gravely. "Toch! you cut yours that it might grow long and thick like our Shenac's," said Dan, who had been with them for some time. "Think of your hair, and look at this." And he lifted the fair curls admiringly. Shenac Bhan laughed. "It's an awful bother, Dan."
"I shall never be afraid of Allister," said Shenac Bhan gravely; "and indeed, Hamish, I don't think it is quite kind in you to think I like my own way best of all " "I did not mean that, Shenac," said her brother. "But you are afraid I will not like to give up to Allister. You need not at least, I think you need not," she added meditatively.
"Think how long it will take to grow again; and it is beautiful hair," she added, as she came near and passed her fingers through it. "Nonsense, Christie, she's not in earnest," persisted Shenac Dhu. With a quick, impatient motion, Shenac Bhan took the shears from her cousin's hand and severed one two three of the bright curls from the mass. Shenac Dhu uttered a cry.
"No," said Hamish; "he would never do that, if he knew it in time to stay. We can but wait and see." "Wait and see!" Shenac Bhan echoed the words in her heart. If they had heard that he was to stay for months, or even for years, she thought she could bear it better than this long suspense. "Shenac," said her cousin, reading her thought, "you would not have Allister come and leave him?
O Shenac, he has such a pretty print this time blue and white." "But could you not see his pretty things last night? And are you to get a dress of the blue and white?" asked Shenac Bhan. "Of course I could see them, but I could not take a good look at them because my father was there.
Glancing round the room, he stood still on the door-mat with a comical look of indecision on his face. "I don't suppose you want to see me enough to pay for the tracks I shall make on the floor," he said to Shenac Bhan. "I don't know as I should have come round this way this time, only I've got something for you something you'll be glad to have."
Nobody seems afraid for them except my father; and it is not fear with him. He has never settled down in the old way since the letter came saying that Allister would bring Evan home." Yes, they needed Hamish more than they knew. It was the anxiety for the mother, the sleepless nights and unoccupied days, that, all together, unnerved Shenac Bhan.
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