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Updated: June 2, 2025
In the toils of her bodily trouble, beset by mental terrors, she had fled away from her baby, her husband, and her home, pursued by God knows what phantoms of disease. But she would get better, she would come back. "Hush, bogh, hush, then," he whimpered tenderly. "Mammie will come home again. Still and for all she'll come back."
There was nothing. The child, awakened by the draught of the night air, began to cry from the cradle. He took it up and hushed it with baby words of tenderness in a breaking voice. "Hush, bogh, hush! Mammie will come to it, then. Mammie will come for all." He lit a candle and crept through the house, carrying the light about with him.
"Perhaps the doctor was right for all. Maybe the child isn't willing to stay with us now the mother is gone; maybe it's wanting away, poor thing. And who knows? Wouldn't trust but the mother is waiting for the lil bogh yonder waiting and waiting on the shore there, and 'ticing and 'ticing -I've heard of the like, anyway." Philip groaned. His brain reeled; his legs grew cold as stones.
"Moo-o," said the little one. "Look at that now!" said Pete rapturously. "She knows what the dog says too," said Nancy. "What does Dempster say, bogh?" "Bow-wow," said the child. "Bless me soul!" said Pete, turning to Philip with amazement at the child's supernatural wisdom.
As she did so, with all eyes upon her, the wedding-ring on her finger flashed in the light and was seen by everybody. "Look at that, though," cried Black Tom. "There's the wife for a husband, if you plaze. Ashamed of showing it, is she? Not she, the bogh." Then there was much giggling among the younger women, and cries of "Aw, the poor girl! Going to church has been making her left-handed!"
Pete, at Grannie's lap, was stroking the child's arm and her forehead with the tenderness of a woman. "The bogh millish! Seems aisier now, doesn't she, Grannie? Quieter, anyway? Not coughing so much, is she?" The doctor came at the moment, and Cæsar entered the room behind him with a face of funereal resignation. "See," cried Pete; "there's your lil patient, doctor.
'You can make me marry her, said he, 'but you can't make me live with her, he said, and he was away down the road like the dust." "I don't think I'll go to Douglas to-day, mother," said Kate in a broken voice. "I'm not so very well, after all." "Aw, the bogh!" said Grannie. "Making too sure of herself, was she? It's the way with them all when they're mending."
And when she saw the old man she said, 'So you've come at last, boy; but you've been keeping me long, bogh, you've been keeping me long. And then she died. Wasn't that strange?" Her dark eyes looked up at him and her mouth quivered. "Was it witchcraft, then?" said Philip. "Oh, no; it was only because he was her husband. That was the hold she had of him.
Nancy paused with the long brush in her hand in the kitchen, and Granny stopped at her knitting in the bar. "That's something like, now," said Nancy. "Poor thing, poor Kirry! What wonder if she was a bit out of her head, the bogh, and her not well since her wedding?"
And then, all being gone and the long strain over, Pete snatched the puling child out of Nancy's arms, and kissed it and wept over it. "Give her to me, the bogh," he cried, hoarse as a raven, and then sat on the stool before the fire, and rocked the little one and himself together. "If I hadn't something innocent to lay hould of I should be going mad, that I should. Oh, Katherine bogh!
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