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"They know how to come by their cattle at a far cheaper rate," said the Major; "but let it be as your Excellency wills." "Let Ranald MacEagh," said Montrose, "select one or two of his followers, men whom he can trust, and who are capable of keeping their own secret and ours; these, with their chief for scout-master-general, shall serve for our guides.
"S'pose old Fox cud nibble round the brule," continued Yankee, nodding his head toward his sorrel horse. "Don't think I will do much drivin' machine business. Rather slow." Yankee spent the summer months selling sewing-machines and new patent churns. "There's plenty of pasture," said Ranald, "and Fox will soon make friends with Lisette. She is very kind, whatever."
"You just cut a natch in the tree, and drive in the spile, and " "Oh, but wait," she cried. "That's just what I wanted to see. How do you make the spile?" "Oh, that is easy," said Ranald. He took up a slightly concave chisel or gouge, and slit a slim slab from off a block of cedar about a foot long. "This is a spile," he exclaimed.
At last, when the summer was over, and the harvest all gathered in, the days were once more shortening for the fall, Ranald drove Lisette one day to the manse, and went straight to the minister's wife and opened up his mind to her. "I cannot keep my promise to my father, Mrs. Murray," he said, going at once to the heart of his trouble. "I cannot keep the anger out of my heart.
Harry had heard in Calcutta of his uncle, Mr Ranald Castleton, who had gone to Penang soon after its establishment as the seat of government of the British possessions in the Straits of Malacca. He had, however, sailed for England some years before, during the previous war, and the ship had, it was supposed, either been lost or captured by the enemy, as she had not afterwards been heard of.
During the hour and a half allowed for dinner, Ranald took his horses to the well, washed off their legs, removed their harness, and led them to a cool spot behind the barn, and there, while they munched their oats, he gave them a good hard rub-down, so that when he brought them into the field again, his team looked as glossy and felt as fresh as before they began the day's work.
"I have never had such pleasure in my life," he said, holding her hand a moment, and looking into her eyes that sparkled with a happy light. "That is," he added, with a swift glance at Maimie, "from music or things like that." Kate caught the glance, and the happy light faded from her eyes. "Good night," said Ranald, offering his hand to Maimie. "I am glad I came now.
Carefully Ranald passed his hand down the arm. "Say nothing," whispered the lieutenant to him. "It's broken. Tie it up some way." Without a word Ranald stripped the bark of a birch tree, and making a case, laid the arm in it and bound it firmly with his silk handkerchief. "We ought to have a sling," he said, turning to Kate.
They had come one early morning, Hughie with Fido "hitched" in a sled driving over the "crust" on the snow banks by the roadside, and his mother on the pony, to make their call upon the sick man. As they drew near the house they heard a sound of hammering. "That's Ranald, mother!" exclaimed Hughie. "Let me go and find him. I don't want to go in."
Makes me think of all the great things I ever saw." "What things?" Kate ventured to say. For a few moments Ranald paused, and then replied: "It makes me think of the big pine trees waving and wailing over me at night, and the big river rolling down with the moonlight on it and other things." "What other things, Ranald," persisted Kate. But Ranald shook his head and sat silent for some time.
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