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It was Mr Macalister who spoke; but Margot hardly recognised the voice, hardly recognised the face, which, for all its pallor and quiver of pain, was yet strong and calm. All trace of the peevish discontent that had hung like a cloud over the man had vanished like a mist; his bowed back seemed to have straightened itself and grown erect; the whining voice was composed and full of courage.
"It's your turn, I'll admit; but I will pay you well " Macalister interrupted him-"Ye'll maybe think it's a bit mair than fooling ere I'm done wi' ye," he said. "But speakin' o' pay... and thank ye for reminding me. Ower there they riped ma pooches, an' took a'thing I had."
Macalister at the Port Said hospital, and that medical missionary who had come home on the Celebes on sick leave from Mukden.
The forward wall of the firing trench was built up with wicker-work facings and the officer drew out a thick switch. "You will speak," he said, "or I shall flay you in strips and then shoot you." Macalister said nothing, and was slashed so heavily across the face that the stick broke in the striker's hands.
She was soon out of sight, and in less than half an hour Mrs. Lorrimer, Jane Macalister, and every other member of the picnic party, were gathered round the prostrate figure of little Nora. She was more conscious now, and looked eagerly for one face, the solace of all sick children. "Let Mummie hold my hand," she said. Mrs.
Jane Macalister will stay and help your mother to-night until we can get the services of a proper nurse. Take the children back as soon as you can, Molly. God bless you, my love." The Squire stepped into the doctor's brougham and was driven rapidly away. Molly raised her hand to her forehead. "I feel stunned," she said. "Nora was the gayest and the brightest and the prettiest of us all.
"It doesn't matter at all," said Philip. "One has to take one's chance." He moved back to the table from which he had got up to talk to Macalister. He was dumfounded; his head suddenly began to ache furiously; but he did not want them to think him unmanly. He sat on for an hour. He laughed feverishly at everything they said. At last he got up to go.
"If I've said anything you're no likin' and that I'm sorry for masel', I apologize," he said. The officer glared at him with narrowed eyes. "That'll not do," he said coldly. "When I say 'beg' you'll beg, and you will go on your knees to beg. Do you hear? Kneel!" Macalister stood rigid. At a word, two of the soldiers placed themselves in position again, with their bayonets at the prisoner's breast.
A dim light in the distance presently guided her steps, and she soon found herself standing, out of breath and a good deal blown, in the presence of Molly and Jane Macalister. They were both clothed from head to foot in long brown-holland aprons. Jane was vigorously dusting and brushing a heap of dilapidated books, which Molly was arranging in orderly piles on the floor.
By Saturday, Boris, Kitty, and Nell were to all appearance just as they were before, and even the elder members of the family behaved, as Jane Macalister expressed it, "like sensible Christians." In the Thornton household, too, the first overwhelming shock of Sir John's approaching marriage had passed by.
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