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"I put my arms on the gate and stood watching her, for many a night I would be thinking of her and me away, and then maybe because she would be feeling an eye on her, she turned round. "'Will ye aye be my lass yet, Mirren? and I was proud to see the red flush rise to her cheeks. "'How many would that be making, Ronny? she cried, and came half way and stopped.
"Give him the whisky quick," cried swart Robin McKelvie; "put it down his throat," but Dol Beag lay still. A young man at the door the same exciseman, Gilchrist, that trotted at Mirren Stuart's coat-tails cried in a thin voice, "Christ, he's deid; ye'll swing for this, Dan McBride," and disappeared in the night.
"I've heard oh, do not be asking me how I will be hearing these things, but the preventive men are lying at the cove waiting for the Gull, and I thought maybe if she came the night, wi' a storm comin' from the southard and them trying to make the port, they might all be taken away and transported, and he would be among them. . . ." "Gilchrist the exciseman, Mirren?"
"Umph," sniffed Ronny, "it's the great company that gathers at Finlays," and indeed Mirren Stuart saved many's the house at that time, for the gangers and excisemen went after her sisters, while old Finlay smiled grimly, and Mirren got hold of the secrets.
And at the outhouse I spoke to fierce Ronny McKinnon as he stood among the crew. "Ronny," said I, "there was a bonny lass putting herself about for ye, or ye might have been listening to mice cheeping instead o' the waves out there." "I've been in many's the ploy," says Ronny, "and the lassies liked me well enough, except just one." "Would her name be Mirren now?" said I.
"And Anne, a ruddy lass, whispered "'Now that you will have the lad you were speaking about through your sleep, Mirren, maybe ye'll be giving me your garters, and between one and the other o' them, it was a red-faced, brave-looking lass that stood wi' me in my mother's kitchen.
Archie hired with a farmer and in time rose to be ploughman; Mirren after learning to be a dressmaker, found to be in service was preferable. What they could spare of their earnings it was their pride to give in order to keep a home for their parents.
To me she bowed coldly enough, but with all the grace of one whose men-folk called themselves Royal, or maybe from Appin especially in their cups. Although it seems the Royal Stuart race were none too particular whatever, but Dan had always his own way with the lassies. "Has the de'il run away wi' the excise-man, Mirren, that you're risking horseflesh among the peat-bogs?"
'But I dare not leave you alone. 'Mirren, you will do as your mother asks you. Your brother needs help: go, and we will follow you a year sooner. 'I thought it all over, said Mirren, 'and it was settled I should go. It was quite a venture for a young lass to go alone so far, but I was not afraid, seeing there were the plain markings of what was my duty.
"Do you think I would be caring, Bryde, if he ran off if you were left with me?" Ah, she was brave in her loving, was the Flower of Nourn. Mirren McKinnon, that was once Mirren Stuart, was dowie that day, and her eyes red with greeting, for her son had gone to the sea, as his father had long ago.
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