The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-03-27
TALES. OF THE BORDERS
PRESCRIPTIONS;
on, THE TWENTV-aNTH or SEPTEMBER.
BY ALKxANrER cAnPBKLL.


On the following morning, he announce,
bis intention Of going TO PEBBLES, whittier b
was supposed TO have gone before but nov
his manner Of going was changed. lie pur
posed taking the coach, which. as it passe,
within some miles Of Whitecraiss. he intend
ed to wait for, and on departing
"You will not hear of me till to morrow
/ night" he sail 81 can now face man
would that I could, with the same conf
dence, bold up my countenance to God
Alice Scott" he continued, a. lie looked L
the Rirl, II will not forget you 10 nv a.
sence. Your day Of sorrow has been loug
but there may yet be 29th Of September
even to you"
1 Aud, taking the maiden kindly in hi,
arms, be whispered some words in her ear
/ in which the magic syllables Of a name she
/ tTembled to hear were mixed. Her eyes ex.
hibited 4 momentary brightness, deep sigh
/ heav d her bosom, ana again her head de-
clinei, with a whisper on her lips-"Neyer
I o, never y In moment after, be was gone;
ard the widow was left 10 ascertain from
Alice what be had said, 10 bring again, even
Tor a moment, the blood to her cheek.
On the day sfter, there was a crowd Of
people in the Town-lIail OF PEBBLES, and the
anctioneer was reading aloud the articles OF
roup of the lands Of Whitecraigs. Mr.. Col
vile WIS there in high hopes; bat there
we're others, too, who seemed inclined to dis.
appoint them. The property was set up at
! re price of fifteen thousand pounds, and
that sum was soon offered 5y the holder OF
the mortgage. Other bodies quickly follow
ed, and a competition commenced, which
soon raised the price to eighteen thoAsand,
Al which IL seemed 1estiaed 10 be gi7eh TO
Haugkton. The other competitors appeared
tmid; and sev veral declared themselves done,
one by one, until no one was expected to ai-
vance pound higher. All Was silence, save
for the voice Of the auctiOneer; ard he had
already begun bis ominous once, twice,
when voice which had not yet been heard,
cried-sEighteen thousand two hundred" !"
The hammer was suspended, aud all ~ es
turned TO vieN the doughty asss liant, who
would, at the end Of the day, yanQuish the
champion who had rs yet retained the ield.
Those ewes recognized in the bidder a man
poorly clothed. ard more like an alan s-seeker
q an THE purchaser Of an estate-no other
as ths man than Mr.. Wallace. The auc-
tioneer looked at him; hers looked and
wondered; and Haaghton gloomed, as be
advanced another hundred; and that was
81 IN followed by hundred more, W hich led
ID competition that seemed to be embitter.
ed on the one hand by pride and contempt,
and on the other by determination. Han
dred upon hundred followed in rapid sueces
sion, till Haughton gave up in despair, and
q shout rang through the ball as the ham
mer fell, aud the estate was declared the
property OF the humble stranger, whom nc
one knew, and whom no one would have
considered wcst ia more than the clothes 5s
carried on bis back. A certificate of bank
er at Peebles--that be held IN his hands
funds, belonging to the purchaser, OF greater
amount than the price-satisfied the judgs
Of the rouP; and the party were divided il
circles, conversing on the strange turn which
had been given to the sale Of Whitecraigs
On the same night, Wallace returned te
Homestead, and sat down composedly to ths
humble meal that ha6 been prepared foi
hun BY the widow. Alice was in her usua
seat; spA the placiditJ of manner which
distlng gulshed them from ordinary sufferers
spoke their usual obedience TO the Dlvin,
will.
This day, the property Of Whitecraig
has changed masters " said be.
"And who has purchased its'' inquired
the mother.
HE who is now sitting before youf' re
piled be.
Alice turned her bead to look at him; til
mother sat mute With surprise; while b.
rose and fastened the door
'It is even So" he continued, as be agaiI
sat down; SD sid Scott, the brother of you
husband, and .he uncle Of Alice, has thi
day purchased Whitecraigs."
A faint screen from the mother followe,
this announcement, and, recovering herself
she again fixed her eyes on the stranger.
"It is true," continued be; 81 am ia
brother Of your deceased husband. For Lw
years after you we're married to Adam, Yo
would, dop5tless, hear him speak Of me, a
then engaged n calling Of which ma
now be ashamed, for | was one Of the nos
daring smuggiers on the Solway. The 29u
OF September, IL, dawned upon me, ye
with hands 1nsulied in the blood of mar
but the sun Of that day set upon me as pre-
scribed BY God and my country. Ny nam
was read on the house walls, and execratio
followed my steps, as | few from cave /
cave. Yet who could have told that day i
which my evil spirit wrought its create,
4 AAhAAp4 0%NA 6Ot4a " ~ ethmt " HAApcC CF1tAtti
! shades closed upon . repentant soulv'
He paused, and placed has hand on b
brow, ~
These things are to me as an o. dream,
; replied the widow, locking roun her, as
in search of memorials Of stationary spac
my husband never afteFw-sds menticne
your name, save TO iniyrm me that you ha
: died in the West Indies; yet now see h
import Of bis devotion, in the coming roun
OF the day that shamed the honest family
whom he Belonged
sand it Was 20 save that shame, aud
secure my safety under an assumed nan.
that, after ! few to the islands Of the ives
got intelligence Of my death sent to SEQ
land. What other than the issue Of th
day must have been in the view Of the gre,
Disposer Of events. when, in addition TO Il
grace He poured on the heart OF the slime
He invested the arm that had been Iiftt
against His creatures with the prospsrii
shat fIlsd my eafIsrsl But, hlazi though
me{ havs reason Y aiEsgf a NJ iemiI441