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"Ye've been carryin' on this trade ever sin yir father dee'd, and the Glen didna notis. But ma word, they've fund ye oot at laist, an' they're gaein' tae mak ye suffer for a' yir ill usage. Div ye understand noo?" said Jamie, savagely. For a while MacLure was silent, and then he only said: "It's little a' did for the puir bodies; but ye hev a gude hert, Jamie, a rael good hert."
"A've hed the same masel in sic circumstances; they come on sudden," said Jamie. "A' wager there 'ill be a new bit in the laist prayer the day, an' somethin' worth hearin'." And the fathers went into kirk in great expectation.
"It took me," said Jamie Soutar to Milton afterwards, "the feck o' ten meenuts tae howk him 'an' Jess oot ae snawy nicht when Drums turned bad sudden, and if he didna try to excuse himself for no hearing me at aince wi' some story aboot juist comin' in frae Glen Urtach, and no bein' in his bed for the laist twa nichts.
"Ye may as weel shut aff the steam, Jeems," Peter explained to our engine-driver, "an' gie them ten meenuts. It's been by ordinar' at Drumtochty Free Kirk laist Sabbath nicht, and Drumsheugh 'ill no move till he hears the end o't." And as soon as the Muirtown train had removed all strangers, that worthy man opened the campaign.
What scheme have you got in your head? You'd better let me know, at once." "What schame, Barry?" "Well what schame, if you like that better." "I've no schame in my head, that I know of at laist " and then Anty blushed. It would evidently be easy enough to make the poor girl tell her own secret. "Well, go on at laist " "I don't know what you mane, Barry.
"It wud hae been temptin' Providence tae cross the muir," Whinnie explained, "and it's a fell stap roond; a' doot we're laist." "See, Jamie," said Drumsheugh, as he went to the house, "gin there be ony antern body in sicht afore we begin; we maun mak allooances the day wi' twa feet o' sna on the grund, tae say naethin' o' drifts."
Not that I'm in the laist in life surprised at anything he'd do; but I thought that you, Mr Daly, wouldn't put your hands to such work as that." Daly felt the rebuke, and felt it strongly, too; but now that he was embarked in the business, he must put the best face he could upon it. Still it was a moment or two before he could answer the young farmer.
"Quite done with it, my lord; and done with fortune-hunting too. I've seen enough this last time back to cure me altogether at laist, I hope so." "She doesn't mean to make any will, then?"
"Ay, Pether," proceeded this benevolent hypocrite, forgetting everything but the image that was before him "Ay, in troth, your own children your own children, poor things, without a morsel to put into their mouths; and your wife, Pether, that you love betther than than aye, than a station dinner, a thousand times sittin' with a pale face and a breaking, or, maybe, a broken heart, looking on at their privations and their miserable destitution, without being able to render them the laist assistance.
"Kilt!" cried Larry, forgetting his caution in his excitement; "faix he was, an' Bunco did it, too blissin's on his dirty face putt the ball betune his two eyes an' took the laist bit of skin off yer own nose, but the blood was spoutin' from ye like wather, an' if it hadn't bin that the cliver feller knowed all about tyin' up an' there, honey, I wint an' forgot don't mind me och! sure, he's off again!"
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