The morning call., 1890-11-19
LOVES QUEST.

XxE1ES, lassie, I love them. There's
| fNS. monte place / might max mair
| W siler than here. but a. the gowd l.
the world wadna replace the hills when
| man grows up amang them. When l first
cam cot was unco hamesick for the burns
and braes O. Scotland, and l didna think |
| wad get Ger it till l saw those bonnie hills.
Only romance? Weel, lassie, there isna
muckle. It's wark a day amang the stances
| O. the quarry and whites ane O. the lads
mates wi lass wha has grown up on the
hillside. There was a story, tho, that We
might like to hear, for we seem to care for
an aud mans clash.
1t was Just wee while after the road
had been built and a. the city folk were
comm cot to see the beauties O. nature as
| they ca it. There had been great eXcur-
sion frae the city, and when the train was
leaving there cam I'D a great storm. Eth,
but it was awfu'! The sky was black save
where the lightning flashed amang the
hills, and a night lang there was the
| roll o. thunder and the sound . crashing
| trees. The next morn it was a sad sight
| wi fences strewn an trees lying across
! the paths. As we went to work, pickin
| cor steps amang the brush, Sandy Cameron
! cried DOT, There's a dead mon there"
| We a. hurried to where the man lay.
maistly covered VII a tree, and gat him
| oct frae where the great bough had pinned
him doom. At first we thought him dead,
| but we worked wi him for lang tune.
| and just when we had gren up hope, he
| opened his cen.
| Weel, he lay sick and out O. his head Tor
weeks, and the aud doctor who cared Tor
| him was afraid he wadua' live, and there
| was naething to tell where he cam frae,
so we couldna send word to his friends II
| so be he had ony. Slowly lie got weel
| again. but there seemed to be some thing
| wrang wi his head, for he couldna remem-
| Der onythng.
! What is your name?" the doctor asked
! him one day, aud he lookit up wi a strange,
| frighted look.
81 don't remember, sir"
Where do you llVer the doctor asked
| again, and he answered:
| "Away-I don't know"
| Sac the doctor gat ane O. the big doctors
| frae the tOon aud bath said he had best stay
| amans the mountains and mayhap his mind
| wad come back. As he grew strong be took
! his place amang the men at the quarries.
| But used to feel that what VII the sma'
| hands an the grand lace and head, wi the
| dark hair curling Ger II, used to feel that
| n the coarse claes and hard work eouldna
hide that he was something mair than the
men around him. Oft times there was the
| same look OF perplexity i'll his cen that theirs
| might be in Il deer that was herded amaug
cattle A the men lo'ed him, tho, for he
ne'er shirkei his warb, and he was aye ready
! fer kind word or deed for ony O them.
| At night when the wark was done he wad
| gang ava DOT to the hill TOPS, and | wad find
| him there looking Ger the bonnie hills and
| puring streams wi the moonlight shining
| Ger the quarry sac solemn in the stiffness,
| and whites we wad catch the sound o. the
baof,inas yyhprn the ma 9 Eiripu
| in the dance at Duncan Cameron's barn.
| He wad sit there and my heart wad fairly
| ache for the puir lad as he wad moan cot:
'Oh! If could only remember. remem-
ber," and it seemed to me the very hills
were echong remember" Whites he wad
say to me, for l watched Ger him like an
ain son: Il have home somewhere, but
where? see their faces, but do not know
| their names"
| He couidna read A. the letters had
| gone frae him, so | tried to teach him, but
| he wad stumble DER the words like BARN.
| l kennel that he was Scotch for there was
| the sound OF the tongue, but a the words
We're English. Hector Brown cam frae
| Toronto ane day bringing wi him flute; he
was aye reckless wi his siller and got ony-
thing he saw, but he couldna play note.
| Ane day when a. the mon We're trying to bring
| sounds frae the thing, Alex-we ca'ed him
| that for want O. ony better name-tOOk the
flute, and as lie touched it, why. lassie.
|
still and crowded round him, and as he
played his face grew bright and he lo0kIt
| happier than lie had ever done afore. Then
his cen flashed DOT, but he cast down the
flute.
.'Oh!" he crieds' 81 saw my home and al
most remembered. Do you think shall ever
see t?" And he lookit al me SO pitiful that
! l couldna speak.
So l telled the doctor and he watched, and
ane day he askit him II he wadna gang to the
1 la. i lN.
tor and | were aud friends and had monte a
clack DER a wee drCppm'. When dressed in
| The claeS he had worn the morn We found
| HIM, he lookit noble for a that his hands
and face were brown and hard wi the toll.
a day he had wildered, puzzled look
till, when dinner was Ger. we went into the
| room, where there was piano. He went
| straight to it, and how lie played! He seemed
to think O. naught but the sounds. When
| the doctor told hun we maun gang he put his
| head down aud sobbed till L thought his
| heart wad break.
- saw her; / saw herr he said; "but
she lives only i'll the music. ALL shall ever
| remembers?
just little MAR patience" said the doc
tor.
a. through the summer he warked WI us,
aud there wasna ane MAR willing or able
| than he; but II grievtd me sair to see how
| restless and troubled he became.
" In few days viii. CO." he said to me
| ane day, and seek hsr.
| Z" But We caEna," says /.
"IIe will go with me-" said he. lifting his
hand 10 heaven, "and he will guide me to
my home"
Soon after that, when the first leaves were
| being tipped WI red. there was party DOT
frae Toronto: They saw the quarry frae the
devils pulpit" and cam Ger to see us wark
and ask a sorts o questions o. how we did it,
and to watch the cars gang down the steep
hill. dldna' fash WI ony o them but ane,
a bonny lad with lang curS floating around
his face and wearing Draw Highland kills /;
as he played around he lookit like some
| chicftain's son among his clan.
But, as he was skipping irae stane to stane,
l saw him Ia Just where great block was
coming doom / the derrick. l started for the
lad, but Alex had seen it, too. and, wi an
| awfu' push, he sent ii aside and saved the
| child. Then the nurse WI him screamed
and fair lady. dressed a. in black, cam run
ming, and STOPPING Ger the baiIn, wha lay in
Alexis arms, began loving to him. She was
so taken up with the BARN that at first she
didna' heed the grand looking man WI the
coarse cherry claes. Then she thought. aud
| turned to thank him, but he cried oot "Oh,
God MaryW and she iell fainting al his feet.
There isna muckle mar to tell, lassie, but
at that moment a his mind cam back, and
he kennel the past That night cam wi
him and his wife to where he had been
| found, and. sitting there, he told me the
story OF his lie. He was lawyer, and had
come to Canada to find some clew he was
seeking. He cam DOT on the excursion to
see the Yosemite O. Canada, as they ca it,
and got lost frae the rest and didna catch
the train. Then the great tree fell where
he sought shelter, and he knew no 'mair.
| He told me how his wife cam GOT and
sought for him till her heart was maist
broken, aud she believed him dead; but she
cOuldna bear to leave the land where he lay.
| She was passing through on the train TO
| where there seemed some trace o. him, and
the bairnie had begged SO hard to stay amang
the hills. She coultlna say no, and so she
| had found the bairnie's father.-Elizabeth 2.