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Allister brought the other Shenac forward, not at all shyly, quite triumphantly, indeed, and then our Shenac said softly, "When are you coming home, sister Shenac?" With that the startled little creature gave one look into our Shenac's face, and breaking from Allister's gentle hold, she clasped her round the neck, and wept and sobbed in a way that astonished them more than a little.
Is she at home to-day?" said Shenac, with some hesitation, for she would far rather have made her request to Shenac's mother. "Oh yes, she's at home. Go into the house. I daresay her mother will spare her." And he repeated a Gaelic proverb, which being translated into English would mean something like, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
It was wearing out her health and spirits; and it needed all Shenac's strength and courage to get through some of these summer days. It was worse when Hamish went again for a few weeks to his uncle's.
"Oh, but our Shenac's not like the rest of the girls. She's hard and proud, and looks at folk as though she didn't see them. You may laugh, but I have heard folk say it; and so have you, Shenac Dhu." "No, I never did," said Shenac Dhu; "but maybe it's true for all that: there's Sandy McMillan " "And more besides him," said Dan. "There's your father " "My father! Oh, he's no mark.
"I shall be glad and thankful to have our affairs managed by stronger hands and a wiser head than mine." "If stronger and wiser could be found, Shenac, dear," said a new voice, and Shenac's face was bent back, while her brother kissed her on the cheek and lip. "Uncle Angus thinks it would not be easy to do that."
"Something like what you were saying to me just now. You may think how Shenac's black eyes looked when she heard him." Shenac was shocked. "She would not mind what Dan said." "No. It was only when Dan told her that you said it that she seemed to mind," said Hamish gravely. "Dan had no business to tell her," said Shenac hotly; then she paused. "No," said Hamish; "I told him that."
But indeed, indeed, I never thought of telling all this. When I began my story I never meant to put a word of love or marriage in it. I meant to end it at the happy day when Allister came home. But all Shenac's work at home was not done when her good and loving brother took the place she had filled so well.
In Shenac's country, happily, it is not considered a strange thing that a young girl should wish to pursue her education even after she is twenty, so she had no discomfort to encounter on the score of being out of her 'teens.
She need not have hurried so much, for mother came home quite reconciled to the spinning indeed a little proud of all that had been said in Shenac's praise when the matter was laid before the friends they had been to see.
It was with some difficulty that the mother could be made to understand that the wheel was Shenac's bought and paid for. As for Shenac, she could only stand and look at it, saying not a word. Shenac Dhu shook her heartily. "Here I have come all the way in the rain to hear what you would say, and you stand and glower and say nothing at all."
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