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'My mither, than? suggested Shargar, with hesitation. 'Ye maun haud yer face to the fac'. 'Ay, ay. But gin they said onything, ye ken aboot her. 'Gin ony man-body says a word agen yer mither, ye maun jist knock him doon upo' the spot. 'But I michtna be able. 'Ye could try, ony gait. 'He micht knock me down, ye ken. 'Weel, gae doon than. 'Ay.
I heard auld Horny say something aboot lyin' to there for a bit, to tak a keg or something aboord. The boys looked at each other, bade Alan good-night, and walked away. 'Hoo far is 't to Stonehaven, Shargar? said Robert. 'I dinna richtly ken. Maybe frae twal to fifteen mile. Robert stood still. Shargar saw his face pale as death, and contorted with the effort to control his feelings.
I did think of endowing a hospital; but I'm not sure that it isn't better to endow a good man than a hospital. I'll think about it. I won't say anything about Shargar either, till I see how he goes on. I might give him a job, though, now and then. But where to fall in with him prowling about after jobs? He threw himself back in his seat, and laughed with a delight he had rarely felt.
While he sat there, Robert, thinking him snug in the garret, was walking quietly home from the shoemaker's; and his first impulse on entering was to run up and recount the particulars of his interview with Alexander. Thereupon he went to the bed to lay hold of him and shake him. But his searching hands found no Shargar. Becoming alarmed, he ran down-stairs to beg a light from Betty.
Robert was astonished at the change that had passed upon Shargar. His departure had cast him upon his own resources, and allowed the individuality repressed by every event of his history, even by his worship of Robert, to begin to develop itself. Miserable for a few weeks, he had revived in the fancy that to work hard at school would give him some chance of rejoining Robert.
Had he succeeded in persuading himself that he was, there is no saying to what lengths of indifference about others the chosen prig might have advanced by this time. He made one attempt to open the subject with Shargar. 'Shargar, what think ye? he said suddenly, one day. 'Gin a de'il war to repent, wad God forgie him?
Nor had he leaned long before Robert found that he had fainted. In desperation he began to hoist the tall form upon his back, when he heard the quick step of a runner behind him and the words 'Gie 'im to me, Robert; gie 'im to me. I can carry 'im fine. 'Haud awa' wi' ye, returned Robert; and again Shargar fell behind.
She gaed aboot the country sae muckle, an' they say the gipsies she gaed amang 's a dreadfu' auld fowk, an' hae the wisdom o' the Egyptians 'at Moses wad hae naething to do wi'. 'Whaur is she noo? 'I dinna ken. She may turn up ony day. 'There's ae thing, though, Shargar: gin ye want to be a gentleman, ye maunna gang keekin' that gate intil ither fowk's affairs. 'Weel, I maun gie 't up.
From the Pier-head to the Rubislaw Road, he knew, if not every court, yet every thoroughfare and short cut. And Aberdeen began to know him. He was very soon recognized as trustworthy, and had pretty nearly as much to do as he could manage. Shargar, therefore, was all over the city like a cracker, and could have told at almost any hour where Dr.
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