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To her he had carried Malcolm's narrative of late events, tenfold strengthening her position; but she was anxious in her turn that the revelation concerning his birth should come to him from his father. Hence Malcolm continued in ignorance of the strange dawn that had begun to break on the darkness of his origin.
He obtained a treaty under which the sháh engaged to banish all Englishmen on demand of the French emperor. Thereupon Malcolm was entrusted by Minto with a fresh mission, but never reached the Persian capital, where French influence was still paramount, and the peremptory tone of Malcolm's letters was resented.
Then the boy, Ferguson, a saddler's apprentice from the village of Lone, was called to the stand; and being sworn and examined, testified to the meeting and the conspiracy at midnight before the murder, under the balcony, near Malcolm's Tower, at Castle Lone, to which he had been an eye and ear-witness.
And now by one of those wondrous duplications which are not always at least born of the fancy, the same scene in which he had found Florimel thus seated on the slope of the dune, appeared to be passing again through Malcolm's consciousness, only instead of Florimel was Clementina, and instead of the sun was the moon.
He brought on board with him a lad of Peter's acquaintance, and now fully manned, they set sail again, and by the time the sun appeared were not far from Peterhead. Malcolm's spirits kept rising as they bowled along over the bright cold waters. He never felt so capable as when at sea.
"Well, I suppose, as you are a personal friend of the idiot " His lordship had thought to sting him, and paused for a moment; but Malcolm's manner revealed nothing except waiting watchfulness. " I must employ some one else to get a hold of the fellow for her," he concluded. "Ye winna du that, my lord," cried Malcolm, in a tone of entreaty; but his master chose to misunderstand him.
Change of scene will do Cedric a world of good, and when he is tired of wandering he will settle down more happily. Very likely by that time he will have some idea of what he wants to do;" and Malcolm's sound common-sense carried the day. Dinah spoke very little of her sister.
Presently Anna began to laugh. "Do let us go in and see what it means," she whispered. "Somebody a man, I think is singing 'Rule Britannia' and 'Hark, hark, my soul' by turns, and there is a woman talking or scolding at the same time." "I believe you are right," was Malcolm's answer. "Take care of that last step, child, it is quite worn away."
The thin hand wrung Malcolm's with surprising force; but Malcolm's eyes were a little misty as he went out of the room, for he knew he knew too well that in this life he should never see David Carlyon's face again! Shall I forget on this side of the grave? I promise nothing: you must wait and see, Patient and brave. Shall I forget in peace of Paradise?
Malcolm's attention had, a few minutes before, been drawn to two men of somewhat peculiar appearance, who, applauding louder than any, only pretended to drink, and occasionally interchanged glances of intelligence. It was one of these peculiar looks that first attracted his notice.
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