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"She is saying, Nanny," Gavin broke in, almost gaily for a minister, "that she saw me recently wearing a cloak. You know I have no such thing." "Na," Nanny answered artlessly, "you have just the thin brown coat wi' the braid round it, forby the ane you have on the now."
After a longer time than he was aware of, Gavin realised that his boots were chirping and his trousers streaked with mud. Then he abandoned the search and hastened homewards in a rage. From the hill to the manse the nearest way is down two fields, and the little minister descended them rapidly. Thrums, which is red in daylight, was grey and still as the cemetery.
He gathered up his parcels and hurried away; and once more the bells set themselves to the tune of "Blue Bonnets" and played "March, March, Why, ma lads, dinna' ye March Forward in Order?" as he drove home. Auntie Elspie was talking to Hughie Reid in deep conference when Gavin arrived at the farm, and on the way home she was so silent, that he was worried over her.
And it was the sound of her drums that had penetrated to the hills of Orchard Glen and had set Gavin Grant's heart throbbing in time to its beat. Mrs. Johnnie Dunn had gone into town that morning with her milk as usual, and on her return she went out to the hay field to see if her two underlings had been attending to business in her absence.
"You seemed surprised to see me this afternoon," said he as he followed Roke to the porch and closed the door behind them. "Yet Mr. Hade had told you I was coming here. He had told you, and he had told you to have some one ready to show me over the island." As he spoke Gavin indicated with a nod a man who was trotting across the sandy clearing toward them.
I was no strong man even in those days, but I carried him to the school-house, the dog crawling after us. Gavin I put upon my bed, and I lay down beside him, holding him close to me, that some of the heat of my body might be taken in by his. When he was able to look at me, however, it was not with understanding, and in vain did my anxiety press him with questions.
For as the last of the unseen things had been slid through the aperture. another sound had focused all his attention, and had sent queer little quivers up his spine. The sound had been a long-drawn hiss. And Gavin Brice understood. Now he knew why the softly falling bodies had slithered so oddly down the short distance between window and floor.
"It is my mother," Gavin said, though he need not have explained, unless he wanted the gypsy to know that he was a bachelor. "Only your mother?" "Only! Let me tell you she may suffer more than you for your behaviour to-night!" "How can she?" "If you are caught, will it not be discovered that I helped you to escape?" "But you said you did not." "Yes, I helped you," Gavin admitted.
Ay, he's a noble man. After he gaed awa my father made me learn the names o' the apostles frae Luke sixth, and he says to me, 'Miss out Bartholomew, he says, 'for he did little, and put Gavin Dishart in his place." Feeling as old as he sometimes tried to look, Gavin turned homeward. Margaret was already listening for him. You may be sure she knew his step.
"Ah," said Babbie, waving the Church aside, "what I want to know is whether he is a single man." "He is not," Gavin replied; "but why do you want to know that?" "Because single men are such gossips. I am sorry he is not single, as I want him to repeat to everybody what I told him." "Trust him to tell Susy," said Nanny, "and Susy to tell the town." "His wife is a gossip?"
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