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I wish I had the power to describe that mysterious charm which drew to her so many and such various people the high and the low in far-scattered places of the earth but it was too elusive to put in words. Perhaps a large part of it lay in her clear simplicity, her utter lack of pretence or pose.
Even the wildest and dullest members of his far-scattered flock learned in time that life was sacred even the life of a half-dead stranger awash in the surf. That even a deserted or unpeopled wreck should be common property may not seem right to some people; but it seemed right to Father McQueen and surely he should know what was right and what was wrong!
Where they may all lie, I know not. Far-scattered bones, indeed! But if the reader cares to learn how some of them or some part of some of them found their way at length to such honourable sepulture, let him listen to the words of one who was their comrade in life and their apologist when they were dead.
As the Marshes grew blacker the far-scattered tussocks and accretions on its level surface began to loom in exaggerated outline, and two human figures, suddenly emerging erect on the bank of the hidden channel, assumed the proportion of giants. When they had moored their unseen boat, they still appeared for some moments to be moving vaguely and aimlessly round the spot where they had disembarked.
Always a severe Presbyterian, and an uncompromising deacon of a far-scattered and scanty community who occasionally held their service in one of his barns, he grew more rigid, sectarian, and narrow day by day. He was feared, and although neither respected nor loved, his domination and endurance were accepted.
Observing the old doctor jogging along the country roads visiting his far-scattered patients, it occurred to Grenfell that here was not only a pleasant but a useful profession. With his knowledge of medicine the doctor assisted nature in restoring people to health. Man must have a well body if he would be happy and useful. Without a well body man's hands would be idle and his brain dull.
The Crees too pressed down from the North and East, and occupied a great-portion of their territory; the Blackfeet smote them hard on the south-west frontier; and thus, between foes and disease, the Assineboines of to-day have dwindled down into far-scattered remnants of tribes.
Only at the very brink of the flowing waters, and only in far-scattered places along the stream, little clumps of cottonwood-trees gave proof that nature had not left the valley utterly without shade and refuge when the summer's sun beamed hotly down upon the lower lands of the Dakotas. And now only among these scattered oases could even practised eyes catch any sign of life.
Nay, it is this single element, which, acted on by heat or acting through machinery, fetches and carries for us over the wide globe, and is fast weaving into one living web the far-scattered interests of the world.
Mexican faces showed now and then at the doorways of far-scattered groups of adobe huts. Outside of these all was silence a motionless land full of wild, rugged beauty, and thrilling with the spell of mystery and glamour of romance.
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