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Will you receive him?" I said "Yes" on one condition that if the new doctor had anything serious to say he should report it first to me. A little reluctantly Martin's father agreed to my terms and the consulting physician was sent for. He came early the next day a beautiful Ellan morning with a light breeze from the sea bringing the smell of new-mown hay from the meadows lying between.
Sometimes they were the voices of my old people in Ellan, but more frequently, and most importunately, it was Mary's voice, calling me by my name, and crying to me for help as if she were in the shadow of some threatening danger. "Martin! Martin! Martin!"
"I leave you in good hands, but you must let me come to see you again some day," he said, and then with a playful smile he added: "They've got lots of angels up in heaven we must try to keep some of them on earth, you know." That was on the fifth of July, old Midsummer Day, which is our national day in Ellan, and flags were flying over many of the houses in the village.
"Yes," said Duncan, yawning; "this smoking makes one very thirsty. I wish I'd some beer." "Well, why shouldn't we get some?" said Wildney "it would he very jolly." "Get some! What! at this time of night?" "Yes; I'll go now, if you like, to Ellan, and be back before ten." "Nonsense," said Eric; "it aint worth while."
The Stack formed one of the extremities of Ellan Bay, and was a huge mass of isolated schist, accessible at low water, but entirely surrounded at high tide.
Duncan didn't re-enter the study that evening. The next day, about half-past four, Eric found himself on the way to Ellan. As he was starting, Bull caught him up, and said "Are you going to the Anti-muffs?" "Yes; why? are you going too?" "Yes; do you mind our going together?" "Not at all."
If I haven't got a son I've got a son-in-law, and when I get a grandson he'll be the richest man that ever stepped into Castle Raa, and the uncrowned king of Ellan." At that there was a tempest of cheers, which, mingling with the clamour of the storm, made a deafening tumult. "They're saying a dale nowadays about fathers and children daughters being separate beings, and all to that.
I tremble to say what interpretation I put upon all this how it seemed to be a justification of what I did on the night before Martin left Ellan, as if God, knowing he would not return, had prompted me, so that when my dark hour came I might have this great hope for my comforter. And oh how wonderful it was, how strange, how mysterious, how joyful!
But if there's anybody in the island of Ellan who has done that same every day of his life, it's yourself, and never more cruelly and shamefully than in the case we're talking of at this present speaking." "I'm not used to this kind of language from my clergy, Father Donovan," began the Bishop, but before he could say more Father Dan caught him up by crying: "Perhaps not, Monsignor.
It is to come off on the afternoon of the tenth, it seems, my last day in Ellan, after my marriage, but before my departure. How God governs everything! It is really wrong of me to allow Martin to go on. This morning he told me he had bought the special license for our marriage, and this evening he showed me our tickets for Sydney two berths, first cabin, steadiest part of the ship.
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