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It soon grew to be Donald's chiefest pleasure to be with his boy, and he found more and more irksome the bonds of business which permitted him so few intervals of leisure to visit the farm. At last one day he said to Katie, "Katie, couldn't ye make your mind up to come up to Charlottetown? I'd get ye a good house, an' ye could have who ye'd like to live wi' ye.
"To see ye, Mike," was the ending of her sentence, as she trotted to Donald's gift and began to cuddle it. "Yo' haint erbeen ter see Lou fer er long, long ..." The piping voice trailed off into silence. "Why, Lou, sweetheart. What is the matter? Don't you know your own Smiles?" pleaded the deeply distressed girl, as she gathered the child to her breast.
The gentlemen were out nearly all day, riding or driving; the ladies with them a part of the time. The evening was enlivened with music and conversation, and all retired to rest at a seasonable hour; the two guests expecting to take leave of their hospitable entertainers the next morning. Darkness and silence reigned for some hours, then the shining of a bright light into Donald's eyes awoke him.
And, cocking his bonnet proudly, he commenced the task of finding his way back to the city; a task which, after a good many unnecessary, but, from his ignorance of the localities, unavoidable deviations, he at length accomplished. Donald's most anxious desire now was to find a "public" in which to quarter for the night; but, the hour being late, this was no easy matter.
"Oh, please don't be frightened, I'm not going to scratch you. We wood people don't fight with your kind of animal, they're too unpleasant at close range." She paused, and then went on more steadily. "I came here ... I didn't know just why I was coming, perhaps to plead with you for Donald's sake. That doesn't look much as though I loved him ... in the way you insinuate, does it?
In an instant a full meaning of the situation flashed into Donald's mind. The camp was deserted of all except the infirm and very aged. All the others men, women, children, and even the very dogs had gone to participate in the festivities of the up-river camps to which so many white prisoners had that day been taken.
You just have to remember not to shear flocks this way in summer, for the wool would be cut so close that your sheep would be wild with flies and sunburn before their coats grew long enough to protect them." They had now reached the plant, where they were to meet Donald's father and Thornton; they mounted the steps of the low building and went in.
Donald's strange, but striking attire, in truth, had attracted all eyes; and much did those who beheld it wonder in all the earth to what country it belonged. But simple wonder and admiration were not the only sensations which Donald's garb produced on the masquers. His kilt had other effects.
Div ye no see yon's Bible langidge oot o' a Prophet, or maybe Kings, and Donald wes usin't in a feegurative capaucity?" Burnbrae gave up the contest in despair, feeling himself that Old Testament allusions were risky, and that Donald's quotation was less than felicitous.
Overpowered by passionate memories, he fell back exhausted. Tears were streaming down the cheeks of Esther. Sir Donald's vision was obscured by mists. He turned away his face. Punish such criminal? It is more likely that both these would incur liability as "accessories after the fact." In a few minutes strength for further confessions returned. "I often met Pierre and Paul Lanier in Calcutta.
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