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Nay, my friend; we must go out into the highways and hedges and force them to come in with kindly sympathy and brotherly aid. John Leslie was the other friend whom Sibyl Warrington had selected from the large circle of Westerton society. Did she really like him?
"You came away early, Hugh," said Aunt Faith; "do you feel well?" "I am tired, aunt; that is all." "It was a pleasant party," continued Aunt Faith; "did you not think so, Sibyl?" "I enjoyed it!" said Sibyl quietly. "It was a rare feast," said Graham; "one seldom meets such a combination of aesthetic talent in Westerton." "Mr. Leslie was not there, however," said Hugh. "Ah, no.
"You have acted discreetly, Westerton," said Mr Trunnion to me one day when I was alone with him in his private room. "Whether Captain Magor was right or not in the fearful accusation he brought against that unhappy man. I know not. The `Vulture' has, I trust, long since sailed.
"Gude luck tae ye up at Westerton, sir; nane but a richt-hearted man wud hae riskit the Tochty in flood. Ye 're boond tae succeed aifter sic a graund beginnin'," for it had spread already that a famous surgeon had come to do his best for Annie, Tammas Mitchell's wife.
Mr Magor, making a nautical bow to Mr Trunnion, and giving another glance towards Captain Roderick, left the room. "Westerton," continued my employer, turning to me, "you have heard all that has been said, and if it were repeated, although the poor man is under an hallucination, it might be the cause of disagreeable reports. You are discreet, I can trust you.
That is my idea of a picnic!" Everybody laughed at this cynical picture, and Aunt Faith said, "I remember just after the war, when a number of our Westerton soldier-boys had returned, it was proposed to celebrate the home-coming by a grand picnic.
Leslie has no near relatives, and although he is loved by his congregation, dread of the fever will keep most of them away; besides, they cannot leave their work. He will be left to hired nurses and you know what Westerton nurses are!" "Go, then, my boy, and may God be with you," said Aunt Faith, with tears in her eyes. The tea-table was soon deserted.
Ordinary carts and plenty of horses were to be found at Westerton, which was our station for Kyllion. Mr. Trelawny had ordered a sleeping-carriage for our party; as soon as the train had started we all turned into our cubicles. That night I slept sound. There was over me a conviction of security which was absolute and supreme.
An artist of world-wide fame had asked permission to paint her head in profile, as a study, and whenever she appeared at a party the strangers present were sure to inquire who she was, and follow her movements with admiring glances, although there were many eyes equally bright, and many forms equally graceful in the gay circle of Westerton society.
Leslie lived and worked. When he first came to Westerton, this chapel was almost deserted, but now it was filled with a congregation of its own, a congregation drawn from the neighboring houses, the laborers and their families whose zeal and liberty according to their means, might have put to shame many a church record in the rich quarters of the town.
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