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We now Steer'd North-West, having the same deepth of Water until near 9 o'Clock, when we began to Depen our Water to 6 1/2 and 7 fathoms. By this I thought that we were far Enough to the Westward of the Cape, and might haul to the Northward with Safety, which we now did, having the Wind at North-East by East, a light breeze.
But I'll tell ye what I wad hae ye do: Mak muckle o' 'm. Gie him tether eneuch. He'll gang frae ill to waur, ye may depen'. He'll steal or a' be dune." "To the best o' my belief, sir, that's no to come, He's stolen already, or I'm sair mista'en." "Ay! Can ye pruv that? That's anither maitter," returned Cupples, beginning to be interested.
De Lawd mowt move me to do most fo' de one what least fitt'n' to" she choked "to die. An' yit ag'in dat mowt depen' on de circumstances o' de time bein'." "Well, it mustn't, Rebecca, it mustn't!" "Y' yass'm no'm'm! Mustn' it?" "No, in any case you must do as I tell you." "Oh, o' co'se! yass'm!" "So promise, now, that in any pinch you'll try first to save your son." "Yass'm."
"Hoots, Grizzie! haud yer tongue, my wuman," said the laird, in the gentlest tone, yet with reproof in it. "Ye ken weel it's no my mother wad grudge me the milk ye wad gie me. It was but my'sel' 'at didna think mysel' worthy o' that same, seein' it's no a week yet sin' bonny Hawkie dee'd!" "An' wad ye hae the Lord's anintit depen' upo' Hawkie?" cried Grizzie with indignation.
"Haud awa', my lord," it said, "an' lat me come at her." "You're not going down so!" said the marquis angrily. "You'll slip to a certainty, and send her to the bottom." "My lord," returned Malcolm, "I ken what I'm aboot, an' ye dinna. I beg 'at ye'll haud ootby, an' no upset the lassie, for something maun depen' upon hersel'. Jist gang awa' back into that ither vout, my lord. I insist upo' 't."
If they could not make good on their contract, the other mill was ever ready to step in. "Eet all depen'," said Ba'tiste more than once during the snowy, frost-caked days in which they watched every freight train that pulled, white-coated, over the range into Tabernacle. "Eet all depen' on the future. Mebbe so, we make eet. Mebbe so, we do not. But we gamble, eh, mon Baree?"
"Ye dinna surely think, mem, 'at God wad lat onything depen' upo' whether a man opent a door in 's ain hoose or no! It's agane a' rizzon!" persisted Malcolm. "There might be reasons we couldn't understand," she replied. "To do what we are warned against from any quarter, without good reason, must be foolhardy at best."
"Wal," hesitated the other, "mebbe dat would depen' on de crime." "Suppose it was murder?" "Ha! We ain' got no men lak' dat in Flambeau." They said good-night, and the old man entered his house to find Alluna waiting for him, a look of worry on her stolid face. "What's wrong?" he inquired. "All night Necia has been weeping." "Is she sick?" He started for the girl's door, but Alluna stopped him.
Only the dead "cluck" of a grounded line answered him. Houston turned to Ba'tiste. "It looks bad." "Oui! But eet depen' on the storm. Eet come this way, near' ev' spring. Las' year the road tie up and the year before. Oh," he shrugged his shoulders, "that is what one get for living in a country where the railroad eet chase eetself all over the mountain before eet get here."
I sees you, Pompey; don't make no difference whether de earthly master does or not. So I does all de little tings to de Lord, Miss 'Vadney, an' de Jedge knows he can depen' on Pompey. Whenever he wants me, I'se here." "That is lovely!" said Evadne softly. "But don't you get dreadfully tired doing the same work over and over? Every day you have to do exactly the same things.
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