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Oh, how Shenac missed him in all things where Dan was concerned! She had not realised before how great had been the influence of Hamish over his brother, or, indeed, over them all. A laughing remark from Hamish would do more to put Dan right than any amount of angry expostulation or silent forbearance from her. Oh, how she missed him! How were they to get through harvest-time without him?
So the garden was entered by a sort of stile a board was placed with one end on the ground, and the other on the middle rail of the fence and it was on this that Shenac sat down. "Hamish," she said after a little, "what do you think of my asking John Firinn to plough the land for the wheat and to sow it too, for that matter?"
You could not make him believe that he had done such a foolish thing as that two years ago. Two years! It might be ten for the difference they have made in Dan. He only came back from the Grand River two days ago, and Shenac has not ceased wondering and laughing at the change in him. It is not merely his new-fashioned coat and astonishing waistcoat that have changed him.
Mrs More was a pale, quiet woman, with a grave but kind manner, which put Shenac at her ease at once, though she had not seen her since her marriage, which was more than five years before. She had always been very kind to the children when she lived at home, and the memory of this gave Shenac courage to ask her help out of at least one of her difficulties.
"Well, it goes past me," said Shenac. "But it is all nonsense going every night, Dan so far too." "There are plenty of folk who go further," said Dan. "You should go yourself, Shenac." "I have something else to do," said Shenac. "Everybody goes," continued Dan; and he repeated the names of many people, far and near, who were in the new kirk night after night.
"It was Dan's plan, not mine," said Shenac. "Though once I would have liked to do it," she added candidly. "No, Shenac," said Hamish; "you wanted to burn it. Don't you mind?" "O Hamish!" exclaimed Shenac. Angus Dhu smiled. "That would be a pity. They are good rails the very best. And if they were put up too soon, they can be taken down again. You have heard from your brother again?"
Our wool you are going back soon, and if the waggon goes, will you ask your father to let our wool go to the mill? The carding takes so long, and my mother is not so strong as she used to be. And that is one of the things I cannot abide. The weary little wheel is bad enough. Will you ask your father, Christie?" Mrs More laughed. "That is but a small favour, Shenac.
She could move about and chat with her concerning the cream-cheese made for the occasion, and of the cake made by Shenac Dhu from a recipe sent by Christie More, of which her mother had stood in doubt till it was cut, but no longer. Then there were the new dishes of the bride, which graced the table pure white, with just a little spray of blue. They were quite beautiful, Shenac thought.
"That's the elder's way of heaping coals on my head good man!" "What do you suppose the elder cares about a girl like you, or Angus Dhu either?" asked Hamish with a shrug. Shenac laughed, but had no time to answer.
Dan shouted, "Well done, Hamish, lad!" in the distance; and little Flora risked being too late for the school, in her eagerness to gather a bunch of spring flowers for him. As for Shenac, she was altogether triumphant. There was no cloud of care darkening the brightness of her loving eyes, no fear from the past or for the future resting on her face.
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