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Updated: June 3, 2025
Menie and Monnie remembered the summer days when they did not have to dive down through a hole to get into their house, so Menie said to Monnie one day, "Let's go and ask father if it isn't time to put up the tents." They ran out to find him. He was down on the beach talking with Koko's father and the other men of the village. On the beach were two very long boats.
He and his friends never questioned her truth, but went with her, and she conducted them to her father's house, and lodged them in the hay-loft. It seems that Menie Adams was, however, at the time betrothed to the prelatic curate that had been laid upon the parish, and that, in consequence, aneath her courtesy, she had concealed a very treacherous and wicked intent.
The intercourse betwixt Menie and the young men seemed now of a guarded kind on all sides. Their meeting was only at meals, and Miss Gray was at pains, perhaps by her father's recommendation, to treat them with. the same degree of attention.
His lance touched something soft that wiggled! Menie stood up. He was so excited that he trembled. He knew he had found a seal-hole with a live seal in the snow house! With all his strength he struck his lance down through the snow. The snow house fell in and Menie fell with it, but he kept hold of his lance. The end of the lance was buried in the snow, but it was moving.
"I would rather be just a little Scotch lassie, than a Yankee Queen," said Menie, firmly. There was a laugh, and Menie was indignant at her brothers for joining. "You mean a president's wife. We don't allow queens here in this free country," said Mr Snow. "But it is dreadful that you should hate us so," said the Squire. "I like you, and the Judge. And I like Mrs Merle."
She called to the twins, "Come here, Menie and Monnie." The twins had come in with the others, but they were so short they were out of sight in the crowd. They crawled under the elbows of the grown people and stood beside Koolee. "Look, children," she said to them, "your grandfather, who is dead, sent you this bear. He wants you to send him something.
Under the kettle on a flat stone she placed the lamp. Then the stove was ready. "We shall cook out of doors most of the time," she said to the twins, "but in rainy weather we shall need the lamp." It was only a little while before there was a whole new village ready to live in, with plenty of fish and good fresh water right at hand. Menie and Monnie were happy in their new home.
"It is well that he hears you not," answered Menie Gray, resenting, with natural feeling, the imputation on her lover. Then instantly softening her tone she added, "My voice ought not to aggravate, but to soothe your quarrel. Mr. Hartley, I plight my word to you that you do Richard wrong."
"Miss Graeme, my dear," said Mrs Snow, hoarsely, "go ben and sit with your father a while. It will rest you, and I'll bide with Menie here." Graeme rose, and kissing her sister, softly went away. Not into the study, however, but out into the darkness, where the March wind moaned so drearily among the leafless elms, that she might weep out the tears which she had been struggling with so long.
May He have him in His keeping." "And he will come yet." "Yes, I have little doubt. But I'll no' set myself to the hewing out of broken cisterns this while again. The Lord kens best." After that night Mrs Snow never left the house for many hours at a time till Menie went away. Graeme never told her father of the sorrow that was drawing near.
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