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There was, for instance, Finlay McEwen, or McKeowen, as they all pronounced it in that country, who, for a wager, had carried a four-hundred-pound barrel upon each hip across the long bridge over the Scotch River. And next him sat Donald Ross, whose very face, with its halo of white hair, bore benediction with it wherever he went. What a man he must have been in his day!
Neal repeated the story, telling how he knew that his own name was on the list of persons to be arrested. There was a short silence when he had finished. Then James Bigger said "You have not proved that charge. The circumstances are suspicious, but you have proved nothing." Donald Ward bowed. Finlay raised his eyes for the first time since he had been dragged into the vault, and looked round him.
Mrs Murchison would have thought better of them if she had chanced again to overhear. "I wouldn't advise you to have it lined with fur," Advena was saying. The winter had sharply announced itself, and Finlay, to her reproach about his light overcoat, had declared his intention of ordering a buffalo-skin the following day. "And the buffaloes are all gone, you know thirty years ago," she laughed.
I see you are not, and we are not going to run into any unnecessary danger. Finlay will not betray you at once. He will not run out and call soldiers to take you the moment he sees you. He has a deeper plan. He has arranged that a meeting of our leaders will be held in Aeneas Moylin's house to-morrow night.
In a moment they had passed out of sight again, but the moment was enough. Running with the soldiers, his arm gripped by a dragoon, but running with his own free will, was James Finlay. Neal was stung to fury by the sight of this man. He had no doubt at all now that he had to do with a traitor.
So that Christie Cameron, when she came to stay with his aunt in Bross during the few weeks after his ordination and before his departure for Canada, found a fair light for judgement and more than a reasonable disposition to acquiesce in the scale of her merits, as a woman, on the part of Hugh Finlay.
Bella, the daughter of Peter McGregor, was supposed to be dear to Big Mack's heart. "What a peety she could not see him the now," said Finlay Campbell. "Man alive, she would say the word queeck!" "'Tis more than she will do to you whatever, if you cannot keep off that crapeau yonder a little better," said Big Mack, reaching for a Frenchman who kept dodging in upon him with annoying persistence.
These considerations are closely observed by the people of Strabane, the best of whom are steady loyalists. The town is bright, brisk, thriving, and Scotch. Or rather the Scottish element is conspicuous in the main street, with its McCollum and Mackey, its Crawford and Aikin, its Colhoun and Finlay, its Lowry and McAnaw.
"Of town of our dear old London that I suppose I shall never see again," and his mouth hardened. "Do you remember Pall Mall, the Park, the Devonshire and Vivi?" I nodded, and pulled at my cheap cigar. Vivi! Did I remember her? Why, I had often driven the Honourable Victoria Violet Finlay, the girl for she was only eighteen who had once flirted with me when I was in her father's service.
They acted on Rob's suggestion, and, passing rapidly on down the now slightly discolored water, they soon left the Finlay gap behind them. Their journey was but brief, however, for soon they heard the boom of the rapids below them. "On shore, queek!" called Moise to Rob, who was in the bow of the leading boat.
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