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General Rose, who held command at the Arsenal, and had received instructions from Washington to keep peace pending a settlement of the controversy, with a detail of soldiers, had erected a barricade opposite the City Hall on Markam Street and placed a piece of artillery on Louisiana Street, pointing to the river.
Markam went to his cabin and sent his wife's maid to tell each member of the family that he wanted to see them at once. They all made their appearance, suppressing their feelings as well as they could. He said to them very quietly: 'My dears, don't I provide you all with ample allowances? 'Yes, father! they all answered gravely, 'no one could be more generous!
Markam and the elder girls would have liked to make some protest or to do something to relieve their feelings of chagrin at the ridicule which they saw on all faces, but there was a look of fixed determination on the face of the seeming Highlander which awed them a little, and they were silent.
The frequency of the Markam girls' new frocks was a source of envy to their bosom friends and of joy to themselves. Arthur Fernlee Markam had not taken his family into his confidence regarding his new costume.
'There's flies on him, said a tall thin Yankee, pale with sea-sickness, who was on his way to take up his residence for a time as close as he could get to the gates of Balmoral. 'Happy thought! Let us fill our mulls; now's the chance! said a young Oxford man on his way home to Inverness. But presently Mr. Markam heard the voice of his eldest daughter. 'Where is he?
So the two stood facing each other, as though in some weird fascination; and in the rushing of the blood through his brain Markam seemed to hear the words of the prophecy: 'See thyself face to face, and repent ere the quicksand swallow thee. He did stand face to face with himself, he had repented and now he was sinking in the quicksand! The warning and prophecy were coming true.
Markam was deeply touched and thankful for his escape from a horrible death; but the sting of the charge of vanity thus made once more against him came through his humility. He was about to reply angrily, when suddenly a great awe fell upon him as he remembered the warning words of the half-crazy letter-carrier: 'Meet thyself face to face, and repent ere the quicksand shall swallow thee!
Here he learned for the first time of cases where men had led a double existence each nature being quite apart from the other the body being always a reality with one spirit, and a simulacrum with the other. Needless to say that Mr. Markam realised this theory as exactly suiting his own case.
'I shall not, of course, take the claymore and the pistols with me on ordinary occasions, said Markam to himself as he began to undress.
Markam foresaw difficulties if he should by chance find himself in the locality of the clan whose colours he had usurped. The MacCallum at last undertook to have, at Markam's expense, a special pattern woven which would not be exactly the same as any existing tartan, though partaking of the characteristics of many.
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