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BY DANIEL GORRIE.

CuapTrer I1—Continued.

In the morning the tidings were through the whole village that a new doc- tor had come, and several people became suddenly unwell, for the express purpose, [ presume, ot testing my skill. Three urgent eases I found to be sick headache, and fearing lest my trip to the Haugh might be delayed for two weeks, I hired the best hack the Cross-Keys could afford, and made off for the domicile of the ec- centric Laird. The owner of the hack was very anxious to accompany me, but I preferred making the excursion alone. The weather was mild and delightful ; the trees seemed lovelier in their decay than in the fullness of summer life ; aad the Tweed flowed and murmured softly as the waters of siloah. Half-an hour s riding brought me to the Haugh— sn ancient edifice embosomed among trees. In the prime of its youth it would doubt- less be considered a splendid mansion; but in its old age it had an ungainly ap- pearance, although not altogether desti- tute of a certain picturesque air, After disposing of my hack to a little Jack-of- ail-work urchin, who was looking about for some work to do, or meditating mis- chief, I knocked at the door, and was ushered, by an old serving-woman, into & quaint apartment, crammed with an- tique furniture. The mantle-piece ab- solutely groaned under its load of orna- ments, while a great spreading plume of peacock’s feathers waved triumphantly overall, This must be the Laird’s fancy, T thought and not the taste of Miss Jes- sie. Several pictures iljustrative ot fox- huntiog, and two portraits, adorned the walls. None ot them could be considered as belonging to any particular school, or as masterpieces of art. On the window- blinds a beseiging force was represented as assaulting anot very formidable castle.

While I sat amusing myself with the oddities of the apartment, the door opened and the Laird entered, He was a gray hair- ed,ruddy faced ,shrewd-looking man of fifty or thereabouts. I was rather taken with

his dress. He wore a blue coat of antique cut,knee breeches, long brown gaiters with metal buttons, and his vest was beautified with perpendicular yellow stripes. There was an air of dignity about him when he entered as though he were conscious that he was Laird of the Haugh, and that I had come to consult him about some im- portant business. Being a Justice of the Peace, as [ afterwards learned, he probab- ly wished to impress a stranger with a sense of his official greatness. [ did not know very well whether to address him as Mr. Ramsay or the “Laird;” but he relieved me of the difficulty by saying in broad Scotch, “This is a grand day, sir; hae ye ridden far?’

‘““No,’’ I replied, ‘only from St. Dun- stan. ’

“ Just that—just that,” said the Laird with a peculiartone. ‘ 1 thocht as much when I met the callant leadin’ awa the Cross-Key’s cherger,—puir beast !”’

I handed the Laird the letter of intro- duction. which I had received from one of the medical professors in Edinburgh. He read it very slowly, as though he were spelling and weighing every word, and he had perused it twice from be- ginning to end before he rose and wel- comed me to the Haugh.

“ fle’s a clever man, that professor,”

quoth Laird Ramsay; ‘an’ he speaks o ye, doctor in a flattering way ; but the proof o’ the puddin’ is the preein’ o’t, ye ken. Ye’ve shown some spunk in comin’ sae quick to St Dunstan; but ye’re young eneuch to be on your ain coat tail yet.”

We must begin somewhere and some- iime, Mr. Ramsay,” I rejoined.

“Yo’re richt there,’’? answered the Laird; and then add d witha chuckle, “ but patients dinna like to be made vic- tims o’. However, we'll think aboot that. Ye'll be nane the worse o’ something to eat and driok, I’m thinkin’; an’ to tell the truth, I want to weet my ain whistle.” f. So saying, the Laird o’ the Hague rose and rang the bell, and told the old ser- ving-womap, the handmaiden of the household, to bid Jessie speak to him. In a short time Jessie, a tall, handsome, hearty, fresh-coloured, black-haired beauty, came tripping into the room. The Laird was not very cermonious s0 far as the matter of introduction w:s concerned, but Jessie was ove of thusc frank girls who can introduce them: selves, and make you feel perfectly at home at once. The father and daughter were evidently strongly attached to each other.

‘“ Bring us some wine first, like a gude lass,”? said the Laird, “‘ an’ then we'll

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ye’re ready.”

Jessie, like a dutiful daughter, placed the decanters and glasses on the table. There was an‘elasticity in her step, a grace in her every motion, and an ir- resistible charm in her frank and af- fectionate smile. The Laird did not

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[seem altogether to relish the manner in (which my eyes involuntarily followed her movements ; und rememberiog what mine |host of the Crovs-Keys had told me on the | previous night I resolved to be as circum. Ispect as possible, both in Jook and word. The Lairdof the Haugh pledged the young doctor, and the young doctor pledged the Laird. Meanwhile, Jessie had disuppear- ed to looJ after the substantials. A glass or two of his capital wine warmed Laird Ramsay into a fine conversational mood, and we got-on famously together. After dinner, when the puoch was pro- duced, our intimacy increased, and I be- gan to love the eccentric Laird for the sake of his beautiful and accomplished daughter. I discovered that he had a heavy relish for humorous stories and anecdotes, and I plied him with them in thick succession, until the fountain of laughter ran over in tears. I was deter- mined to take the old gentlemen by storm and Miss Jessie, with quick feminine in

aware of my object. However, I carefully abstained from exciting his suspicion by conversing directly with Jessie, even when he uppeared to be in the most genial and pleasant mood.

The evening was pretty far advanced when I left his hospitable board. ‘Mind, you're to be the doctor o’ St. Dunstan,” he said as I mounted the Cross-Keys charger. ‘We'll hae naebody but your- sel, an’ ye mun be sure an’ come back soon again to the Haugh.” I rode home to mine inn fully resolved tolocate myself in the village, and firmly persuaded that if | had not captivated the Laird’s daugh- ter, I had at least conquered the Laird himself.

To be continued.

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