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j a he cried, mockingly, ere I had gone fifty yards: “so the beggar would 1 on horseback, would he? Pri Foes fore a fall. The pauper who 1 ises alms to-day may to-mor- ro dispute with the dogs fcr a bone. | Even Highlander may find it hard to feed on his pride.” I turned quickly on my heel, under
a frantic impulse to go back and rend my tormentor on the spot. Perhaps it was the vision of jeering faces that
deterrsi me, for the crowd were chief- ly his friends, or it may have been an acute sense of my physical disability, but I only called out in a frenzy of ‘They txugh best who laugh
last. I'll silence your tinkler tongue yet,” and held on my way, my rage so furious that passers-by stared at me, my brain throbbing with the fellest purposes of revenge.
Poor fool! One brief moment's prescience, one glimpse of the future, and the keen-edged sword that fate held imaninent over my head would very specdily have checked my passion and turned my mind to other things
than petty aims of vengeance. Yet such foreknowledge would not have di- minished my sense of wrong. My en- emy’s evil influence was predominant, and, littie as I guessed, it was to shape my whole subsequent career.
On reaching my rooms I found a let- ter from home awaiting me. The su- perscription was my father’s, a cir- cumstance that at another time and
in a calmer mood would immediately have struck me as peculiar, since my mother was the invariable correspon- dent at Kilburnie. But just then I had not @yes to observe. One thing
and one thing alone I saw and thought of—the detested object my wrath. He loomed upon my distréected mind like a portentous fate, shutting out all
of
else. Instead of making hast» to learn the news, | crushed the letter in my
hand and strode about the apartment, darkening it with violent language.
A: length I tore the envelope and read the letter. The effect was as if a fevered man were to plunge into an icy flood and have all his flaming cur- rents chilled in an instant. I seemed to have passed in a moment from one
dreadful state of existence into an- other still more dreadful. I had leap- ; ed, in the words of our poet, from i “heii heat to aretic cold,” from the
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region of anger into that of despair, and for awhile I was paralyzed. At first I read ‘ncredulousty, thinking that
fury must “ve disordered my brain.
Hoiding my again, and yet the first, int
wad in my hand, I read again, hoping to prove rpretation wrong. But re- perusal ‘only brought out the fatal truth the more clearly. Then I thought that my father must have been mad when he wrote, but that hypothesis also had to »« abandoned. The letter indeed was mercilessly sane and ex- plicit.
It was a voluminous document, cov- ering a full half-dozen sheets of large, closely-written paper. That I mizht the better understand the crisis which had come upon and the course of events leading up to it, my father re-
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lated The history of all the preceding gienerations ur house. My ances- tors, according to the partial! his- torian, were rnen of rare virtues and
splendid acccmplishments, brave, gen-
erous, aud weli-favoured, aiming ever at keeping their honour bright and their hall full of good cheer for their friends. Their hospitality shone con-
spicuous in ages more princely than a pride
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Cultivate his good-will, and by the grace of God he may befriend you.” l read this letter a dozen times, daz- ed by its news, sickened at heart by | its misplaced and tragic hopefulness. | Locking the door to prevent intrusion, I sat down and tried to think. What
denly laid upon me ? What was I j asked to do? Not half an hour be- tore Peter had publicly ground his heel in the dust to signify how he would crush me,and I had answered in angry defiance. Now J] was to plead for his favour, his help, his good-will. i was to court his scorn, to invite him to heap insults and humiliations on my head. He might taunt me and tempt me, call his companions to join him in making sport of me, he might spit on me, treat me like a dog, and I could give nothing in return but the crouching subserviency which a dog
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liking forever than turn traitor to , those I loved. Help? Yes, 7 wowld help. If neeczssary I would go to Dunéeé and be deaf and dumb under
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that had its touch of pathos, *‘ No man of them was ever known to do what | did not become a Kilgour or Kilburnie.”’ } But he was constrained to add, “Though I am afraid they were nm always as wise as Solomon.”
The eulogy was the preface to a very bitter tale. Bog and crag and moor- land but ill fit people with a chivalrous } spirit and a lavish hand. The Kii-} gours having exhausted the treasury
in keeping open house began to bor- row. Then bit by bit the estate pass-
ed away, till only a remnant remainec. “When I came into possession of it,’ wrote my father, with a stroke of sar-
donic humour, “it wes like succeed ing to an almshouse.’””’ Then he went on to tell of the incessant attacks
harpies—Israclitisii usurers, aided wy conscienceless ‘lawyers—and how thes harpies were now “closing in like ra- venous beasts «of prey howling for blood. Wherefore it comes,” contin-
ued the letter, ‘that things are press- ing hard on vs ai this present and I and your mcther are sore distress- ed.” There was, however, a change of keeping the foe “ beyend the gates by temporizing until time as [, the sole hope of the family, should be able to come to the rescue. The man- ner in which I was to bring relief was
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by beating the harpies at their own game. In other words, I was to re- trieve our fallen fertunes by turning
lawyer forthwith.
“After much meditation,” pursued my father, “the law commends itself to me as a high and honorable profes- sion. A lawyer in our family would fairly set us on our feet again. Law- yers are all rogues, Andrew, .as I know to my cost, but you might get along enough spoon to sur with the best of them. Once started, once rising, none knows where vou right stop. You might be my Lord Advocate yet, and go to court and make a great name and get influence, and then we could cock our bonnets an¢ whistle with the hizhest of them.”
This was bad enough and hopeless enough, but the pinch was yet to come. That my progress migrht be facilitated, I was to begin my legal career in the office of Thomas Clephane, in Dundee— that is to say, I was to put myself completely and uncenditionally in my enemy’s power. My father thanked Heaven that I had an opportunity of maxing so good a start. “ I will write
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Grubbing, and whether I wouldn’t come down and get more. I closed the window, firmly resolved to make no response. Words are but wind, and they would not turn me from my purpose. But the clamour wax- ing louder and more aggressive, so that I could not write with any de- gree of self-possession, I put out my
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“and it lie#’seéure fh he will admit you on favourable terms. Delay not, my son. Let our straits be a spur to your resolution. We look
my mind that
to you to save us, and I am sure we dade not look in vain. I have a dim memory of hearing you once say that your cousin, who will naturally be
your uncle’s partner and your fellow student
successor, is at the university.
burden that had been so sud-
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owes to 1ts master.
I sprang to my feet and began to pace the room in a tumult of revolt end indignation. No, by Heaven, it should never be! Never as long as he
drew breath would Peter Clephane call me slave. To be snubbed, con- temned, jeered at, treated as a crea- ture of the mire everv time the hu-
mour seized him, was a prospect to be cancelled at on¢e. He must be aware of our condition. Already he had flung at me the gibe that I was a pav- per foretaste of f} treatment I might expect at his hands. My father could have no knowledge of what his vyproposal meant. He weuld not willingly deliver me bound into the hands of my worst enemy. And then, with a subduing and sobering effect, it struck home to my heart that all this was but the
and given me a
rebellion of a selfich pride. The in- dividual has his rights, private feel- ings have their place and vyalue, but
1o weigh them against the claims of auty is impious. Could I be guilty of such impiety ? Could I turn a reedless ear to the call for help that rad renched me? No, a thousand times, no! Better suffer any hn-
miliation; hetter sacrifice freedom and
Peter’s persecution. would
He could lay on, never so much as pro-
The gloaming came, and my land- lady entered with’ a light. The cheer- ful glow of lamp and fire strength- ened my resolution. My writing ma- terials were on the table, and I sat cown eagerly to reply that I would in all particulars according to my father’s wishes. As I wrote my j:altry objections grew less and less till they were no more than a vague shadow at the back of my mind! My spirits rose, the prospect brightened. I was almost glad of the cpportunity that had arisen to do something prac- tical. [I would throw myself into my new studies with all my soul anld— who knew ? I might yet realize my father’s dream, and be a legal lumin- and restore the fortunes of my family. I had read of such things; I would make my life a romance.
My sheet was perhaps half full when all at once there arose a great shout- ing under my window. I stopped to hearken, but unable to distinguish what was said I raised the sash and thrust out my head. The moon, which near the full, shone in an un- clouded sky, so that the light was good. Below I saw half a dozen familiar figures, and in their midst, | leer on his face was Peter Clephane. He broke inte a tirade of reviling and mockery as as he saw me, asking me how I liked my
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head again to beg them to go peace-
ably away. I was received with a volley of very ill-smelling slime and @ shout of derisive laughter.
“That’s a slight expression of our
respect and esteem for a scabby High- jand man,” cried Peter. “How does st taste 7”
I shook off the filth with a dizzy head and a sharp constriction of the throat that.made me gasp. I did not speak—I could not, but there was a fascination that held my eyes fast on my enemy. As I did not withdraw, I was bespattered a second time. They shouted in their glee louder than ever, Peter's voice being high over all. The rising tumult within drowned the roise without. I did not hear what
was said. Lights began to leap in a fantastic maze before my sight, and there was a sound in my ears like the vicious song “f a million bullets. i cleaned myself again as well as pos- sible, my assailants screaming in an ecstasy of joy at my plight, then turning backward I clapped ‘on my bonnet and descended the siairs. My appearance outside was the sig- ral fer another and a fiercer storm of ridicule. But my passion was al- ready running high, and needed no fresh tempest of derision to make it surge. Walking straight up to Peter and looking him in the two eyes 50
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XAMINER, CHASLOTTETOWN APRIL 4, 1898.
At the hack of the house there was an unused plot of ground covered by 2
scft sward. It offered a desirable seclu- sicn, and thither I led them. They took the thing as a fresh jest, making bois-
ttle aware that tingled
intent
terously merry over it, li of
the tricity
the deadly
maddening along my veins that had brought me there. Immediately upon entering the closure I threw off my coat and waist-
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oat, slipped the braces frem my shoul- ders to have freer play, and tighten- ed the belt about my waist. Peter
stood regarding me with a look partly of curiosity, partly of contempt.
‘I think you had better strip,” I said, quietly. “I want no advantage.” There was no longer any thought of the qriunled arm
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Tue Qvueen’s, Toronto, Feby. 22nd, 1897 To Wuom 1T MAY CONCERN:
In connection with my visit to Canada as Pianist te Madame Albani, I have had occasion to observe various makes of pianos, and have been much impressed with the advances which are being made in the art of piano construc- tion in this young and flourishing country. One of the most recent instruments to arrest my attention—and I might say one of the best —is the well known “Bell” Piano. Its tone is admirable throughout, and the touch firm and responsive— just what we musicians like—in fact, an excellent piano in every respect. The new Orchastral Attachment (which i understand can be obtained on “Bell” pianos only) is also an excellent feature, and one which will doubtless excite inter- est with all classes. I do not hesitate to say that I consider ihe “Beli” piano a good, honest instrument, and so recom- mend it to any intending purchaser.
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