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"Thanks. I want to find Allister and I'm in a hurry." "So you and him are goin' to team it? That'll be high times! Come here, Bud. Look at Andy Lanning. That's him on the horse right before you." A scared, round face peered out at Andrew from behind his mother. "All right, partner. I'll tell you where to find him pretty close. He'll be up the gulch along about now. You know the old shack up there?
Archibald without learning many a thing all the winter long." "Yes, they will not be home before the spring, I hear." "And oh, Madame, by that date you will have forgot that all was not as you wanted it! And no doubt you will give the young things the loving welcome they are certain to be longing for." "I do not know, Allister. The marriage was a great sorrow, and shame, and disappointment to me.
Allister, however, could run as well as the kelpie, and he hung on to the handle of the wimble, giving it another turn at every chance as the beast went floundering on; so that before he reached his pot the wimble had reached his heart, and the kelpie fell dead on the edge of the pot. Then they went home, and when the pig was properly done they had it for supper.
He will not know that I am dying, but will think I have changed my mind as I have done before. I would not let him know if I could; for he would be sure to stay for my sake, and his heart is set on getting home to his mother and the rest. And, father, I want to tell you that it was not Allister that beguiled me from home, but my own foolishness. He has been more than a brother to me.
Shenac said nothing to this; but when Hamish had added a few more particulars, she said, "Perhaps it may seem foolish, Hamish, but I want to go soon." "Because of Evan?" asked her brother. "Partly; or rather, because of Angus Dhu," she said, laughing. "And Allister and Shenac would like it." "But they would never urge it against your will." "No; I suppose not.
"I'll walk a little way with you," said Allister. Hamish and Shenac stood watching them till they passed through the gate, and then Shenac sat down on the doorstep with a sigh, and laid her face upon her hands. Hamish looked a little astonished, but he smiled too. "He will come back again, Shenac," he said at last. "Yes, I know," said she, rising slowly. "I must tell you before he comes.
Allister threw back his head and laughed into the coloured heavens till the echoes came back sharply from the whippoorwill's sanctuary on the hillside. "Never!" he cried heroically, waving the long stick with which he had driven the cows up the lane. "Never! Let me die before I see the day! No, siree!
Go down to the bar and have a few on me." He turned, laughing and waving to them. Then the door closed, and Dozier turned slowly to face his hunted man. Into Andrew's mind came back the words of the great outlaw, Allister: "There's one man I'd think twice about meeting, and that " "Sit down," said Andrew. "And you can take off your belt if you want to. Easy! That's it. Thank you."
Nobody can think it right that Angus Dhu should take our father's land from us; and the elder said nothing about Hugh; and Dan would never bide with Angus Dhu and work our father's land for him. Never! never! Mother, we must try what we can do till Allister comes home." There was not much said after that.
My brother Tom put his feet on the cross-bar of it, leaned back in his corner for you see we had a corner apiece put his hands in his trousers pockets, and stared hard at my father for Tom's corner was well in front of the pulpit. My brother Allister, whose back was to the pulpit, used to learn the paraphrases all the time of the sermon.
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