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Updated: June 16, 2025
"You've seen Allister?" At first it seemed that La Roche would not speak; then his wide, thin lips writhed back from his teeth. "Yes." "Where is he?" "Gone to the happy hunting grounds." The silence came and the pulse in it. One by one, by a natural instinct, the men looked about them sharply into the night and made sure of their weapons.
"And it's nineteen you are to-day, hinny," she cried, looking at Christina fondly. Christina made a wry face. "Yes, isn't it awful? I don't want to be so old." "Hut, tut, old," laughed Uncle Neil. "Your mother and father were on their way from the Old Country when she was nineteen, and Allister was a baby."
And he still delayed until every possible point of friction had been noted, every danger considered, and a check appointed for it, every method of advance and retreat gone over. "A good general," Allister was fond of saying, "plans in two ways: for an absolute victory and for an absolute defeat.
"Why should she be?" asked Allister, who still stood behind his sister, passing his hand caressingly over her hair. "Oh, you don't know our Shenac," said Dan, nodding wisely, as though he could give some important information on the subject. The rest laughed. "I'm not sure that I know anybody's Shenac very well," said Allister gravely; "but in time I hope to do so."
Shenac Bhan's heart beat so strongly that she thought her mother must hear it in her bed; but she could not put her thought in words "Allister is coming home." Shenac Dhu spoke first. "Hamish Shenac, I told my father that Allister would never leave our Evan alone to die among strangers." She paused, looking eagerly first at one and then at the other.
Sure as death, Madame, you would have had to go to the Dower House, which is but a mean little place, though big enough, no doubt, for all the friends and acquaintances that would have troubled themselves to know you there." "You are not complimentary, Allister. I think I have few friends who would not have followed me to the Dower House." "Surely, Madame, you may as well think so.
Christina would have been very much dismayed at this some months earlier, but in the face of the stupendous events of her life the loss of property or even of the chance of wealth seemed trivial. She said so to Allister and was glad to find that he agreed with her. "I found that out since I was home last," he declared.
She would speak of the coming home of Allister as certain and near at hand, and she would tell of all that was to be done and said, of the house that he was to build, and of the gowns that Shenac Bhan was to wear, while her aunt would listen contentedly for a while. And when the old shadow came back, and the old moan rose, she would just begin and go over it all again.
But he did not come, and in a little while Hamish broke the tidings to his mother, how they had heard that Allister was to have sailed on a certain day, but his Cousin Evan having been taken ill, they were to wait for another ship; but they would be sure to come soon.
"It's just driftin' into my head, sort of misty," murmured Andrew, "that you've been thinkin' about double-crossin' me." "Suppose," said the marshal, "I was to ride into Martindale with you in front of me. That'd make a pretty good picture, Andy. Allister dead, and you taken alive. Not to speak of ten thousand I dollars as a background. That would sort of round off my work.
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