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The amiable visitor was shown into the laird's smoking room an apartment with vast walls like a dungeon and on them trophies from the laird's adventurous days, and proceeded to make enquiry whether Mr. Cromarty was disposed to let his shootings for next season, or, if not, whether he could recommend any others.
Malcolm Cromarty was that of the man of fashion dressed for the country, with the single exception of the tie which intimated to the discerning that here was no young man of fashion merely, but likewise a young man of ideas. That he had written, or at least was going to write, or else that he painted or was about to paint, was quite manifest.
"Perhaps you think I oughtn't to have gone to a butler about such a thing, but Bisset is practically one of the family and I didn't give him the least idea of what I was after. I simply drew him on the subject of the Cromarty family history and among other things that didn't so much interest me I found that Mr. Alfred Cromarty was never married and seemed to have had rather a gay reputation."
"That's a cold-blooded way of putting it," said Ned with something like a shiver. "However, what next?" "Sir Malcolm gets £1,000 a year to support him during the life time of Lady Cromarty, and afterwards falls heir to the whole estate. He therefore gains a baronetcy and £1,000 a year immediately, and the estate is brought a stage nearer him. Miss Farmond gets a legacy of £2,000.
But I'm not well read, and I'm not but what's the good in telling you? You're clever enough to see for yourself." For a man who had no intention of paying compliments, Ned Cromarty had a singular gift for administering the pleasantest because it was so evidently the most genuine form of flattery.
He was the youngest of the "boys," even though past his first youth, and the "life" of the ranchmen's quarters, where all liked and some loved him. The women on the porch watched him till he became a mere speck in the distance, and Aunt Sally sighed: "That George Cromarty is as likely a youth as ever I knew.
Yet after his first greeting, and when he was seated under Simon's inscrutable eye, there stole into his own a hint of quite another emotion. If ever an eye revealed apprehension it was Malcolm Cromarty's at that instant. "Well, Mr. Rattar, here I am again, you see," said he with a little laugh; but it was not quite a spontaneous laugh. "I see, Mr. Cromarty," said Simon laconically.
"What will they think of me!" he exclaimed. "You must be sure to tell Miss Farmond and Lady Cromarty too if she hears of this that I came solely to enquire about the shootings and not to poke my nose into their library! Make that very explicit, Bisset."
When of a suitable age he was apprenticed to the trade of his choice that of a working stonemason; and he began his labouring career in a quarry looking out upon the Cromarty Frith. This quarry proved one of his best schools. The remarkable geological formations which it displayed awakened his curiosity.
Cromarty, her daughters, and most of the other ladies of the regiment, with their husbands. The lunch was a banquet, and after it was over the parties were taken round the place, paid a visit to the Zenana, inspected the gardens and stables, and were driven through the park.
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