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Updated: June 22, 2025
"A prohibitive price for you." said Drake. "Nonsense! I'm going to do a flutter on my own, you know, and plunge against you." It was explained to her that only bookmakers bet against horses, but the gentleman with the beard volunteered to reverse positions, and take Glory's ten to one against Ellan Vannin. "In what?" "Oh h'm in thick 'uns, of course."
In this deplorable state of body and mind, was I jogging on towards the Tweed, by the side of the small river called Ellan, when, just at the narrowest part of the glen, whom should I meet full in the face but the very being in all the universe of God would the most gladly have shunned.
That I never did so was due to the fact that, not knowing what legal powers my father might have to compel my return to Ellan, the terror that sat on me like a nightmare was that of being made the subject of a public quarrel between my father and my husband, concerning the legitimacy of my unborn child, with the shame and disgrace which that would bring not only upon me but upon Martin.
The two shook hands in silence, and as they left each other they felt that while things continued thus their friendship could not last. It was a sad thought for both. Next morning Wildney received a severe flogging, but gained great reputation by not betraying his companion, and refusing to drop the least hint as to their means of getting out, or their purpose in visiting Ellan.
It was to be Hugh, because that had been the name of the heads of the O'Neills through all the ages, as far back as the legendary days in which, as it was believed, they had been the Kings of Ellan. My mother was no less overjoyed.
Beaching Ellan, it suddenly struck him that he didn't know where they were going to buy the beer. He asked Wildney. "Oh, I see you're not half up to snuff," said Wildney, whose courage had risen; "I'll show you." He led to a little low public-house, whence tipsy songs were booming, and tapped at a side door three times.
You must not regret it either, dearest, or reproach yourself in any way, for when we stand together before God's footstool He will see that from the beginning I was yours and you were mine, and He will cover us with the wings of His loving mercy. Then don't think, dear, that I have ever looked upon what happened afterwards first in Ellan and then in London as, in any sense, a punishment.
I once heard him say that the money tumbled into his chest like crushed oats out of a crown shaft, but what happened at last was never fully explained to me. Something I heard of a collision with the law and of a forced assignment of his interests. All that is material to my story is that at forty-five years of age he returned to Ellan.
And then I was going down into the deep Antarctic night, where no sound from the living world could reach me. What would happen before I could get back? Only God could say. Notwithstanding my father's anxiety to leave Rome we travelled slowly and it was a week before we reached Ellan.
He continued to look at me with a tender expression until we said good-bye; but after the carriage door had been closed and the engine had throbbed, and the guard had whistled, I thought I had never seen his strong face so stern as when the train moved from the platform. We reached Ellan towards the close of the following day.
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