The anti-monopolist., 1877-11-01

the neople were going to church. He !
certainly had the satisfaction OF
nerfectly horrifying them. HIS
drive with Miss Grief was still I
greater offence.
"A pretty, painted, Frenchified
infdel - said Duncan Forbes, bitterly;
..a lassie wha scorns the kirk, an
measures cen the word O. the Lord
by her ain small understanding.
Gavin Irwin is courting dool an
disgrace, an nae guild lad will sort WI
him.
Everybody shared the lawyer
opinion; and the young men VINO saI
at the same table with Gavin gave Tue
offender but the scantlest courtesy
and quite excluded him from all theil
little social plans. While Jessie
remained in Campsaile, he dld not
care much; he chose TO can ~
ssiealousy'' and "envy;' and paraoeu
his friendship with the baron OF Crle1s
sister very Extensively to all his olo
But Jessie left Campsaile with the
summer birds and flowers, ana very
soon after this event Gavin time was
ont with Lawyer Forbes. He was
very anxious to buy share IN uhe
I1awyer's business, and his father was
now inclined to please him.
Rnt Forbes declined all Mr.. IRWIN
offers. and plainly told the old man
that his sons unpopularlty Would
iniure his custom. 4
"Our steady folk, We ken neighbor,
like a man who walksi i the old ways;
we are a plain bodies, an hae sma
skill O. these new pholos pines; the
law O. God, an the law O. Scotland is
lust as much as we can manage.
Gavin was hurt and disappointed.
He was Young and wanted TRENDS
, and company, and no one responoeo
! to his advances.
Winter came on, and 1t was SO
| dreary that Gavin took the next wrong
} step; as good people would not notlce
I him. he fell into bad company. ANY
! one knows how rapidly man may
I travel on his downward road. Gavln
soon began to stake glass, and then
; not to care who knew it; 'better men
I than he got before the wind oc,
; casionally." He had long ceased
4 going to church, AMI pretty Maggie
. lindsey. who had dared to smile IN ms
face. long after her mother and sister
y ont him directly, had now ceased &c
y notice him, and gave her smiles tc
h Alex. Forbes his special aversion.
The winter passed, and in the spring
q the news of Miss Crieff' S marriage &c
# Lord Clvde came to Campsalle. Il
y was very bitter drop added to his
Il cun ~ for Gavin had felt sure tha
Taesie would return with summer
+. and explain in some satlsIacCor.
le manner her mysteriously silence; ant
% and to the loss of this hope was adde'
st tbe spiteful condolences or the Opel
sarcasms of all who knew him. :,
az He thought his cup was quite Iull
hut q greater sorrow awaited hlm
N One evening, in the summer, Balh
Irwin quietly died in his char
>, heart disease and the villagers did no
n scrnple to say that Gavin's coduc
M had FASTENED his end. No one had
kind word for him except the ne'
in minister, man whom GaVlh I'D
I'd always avoided, partly because
Id was his fathers chief friend ana COZ
a fdent, and partly because he dlsllke
tv his admonitions. Now, hoWeVe
eff they were compelled to come In COZ
or tact. and Gavin at last did justice
nd the good man kindly nature.
on But he took the 10000 his 1atnt
or had | eft him, and left Campsalle,
of he supposed, forever. The mlnlst'
lin thought not. >,
q ole can't sell the house and tf
he twenty acres round it, wife, and ne
nj. come home again. l promised n
ial father / would be watching for him
,ht It seemed hopeless kind OF watc
of mo. Year after year slipped ava
10. and no one heard word from Cav
oSt Irwin. The rent of the house w
,he remitted to firm he had chosen
so Liverpool. for five years; then {
.st tenant left. and for three years mo
no. the irwin place stood empty. In tho
Id three wears the minister OFT
har wondered where the lost lad W;
The rent of the homestead. while
;ua was rented, was enough for III
- necessities. but now--what was
stic doing ! ,
lot He was seeing many extremes.
!, ~ had been as supercargo to the tropl
,es and in whaling ship to the ATTAIN
the ocean. He had been success
,an speculator in New York. and he I
YER been digging IoI Soiu III
,om m He had been gambling with prln
1er. in Baden Baden, and fighting for
rights with the roughs OF Neva
new But one night, ten years after
ike fathers death, when he was J
Mr.. recovering from an attack OF
terrible vomito in Matamoras'
,ow. suddenly bethought him OF
the pleasant old home among the Dre
rive hills. He heard in his soul the cnii
,n.'' of the church bells, and the la
that sweet music of the people sing
win: psalms, just as he heard them,
nan. that Sunday morning. when ne "
fishing to please the fair and az
and Jessie Grief; and an intense de
q M for those cool old rooms and seer
sir. garden ways, for the murmu,
and trout becks, and broom-covered
possessed him.
God He feebly sought for his purse
low counted his money. Yes. there