San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-06

the evil sticking in holly bush; they had
been up the gait" as the servants say at
Durrisdeer, to the change house; and if they
had little left of the guinea, they had less of
their wits. What must John Paul do but
burst into the hall where the family sat at
dinner, and cry the news to them that Tam
Macmorland was but new hchtit at the door,
and-wirra, wirra-there were name to come
behind hing
They took the word in silence like folk con-
demned; only Mr.. Henry carrying his palm
to his face, and Miss Alison laying her head
outright upon her hands. As for my lord
he was like ashes.
Il have still one son." says he. "And,
Henry, will do you this justice, it is the
kinder that is left"
1t was a strange thing to say in such mo-
ment but my lord had never forgotten Mr.
| Henrys speech, and he had years of injustice
or his conscience. Still it was a strange
thing; and more than Miss Alison could let
pass She broke out and blamed my lord for
his unnatural words, and Mr.. Henry, because
he was sitting there in safety when his
brother lay dead, and herself, because she
had given her sweetheart ill words at his de-
parture; calling him the flower of the flock,
wrng:ng her hands, protesting her love and
crying on him by his name; so that the SER
wants stood astOnished.
Mr. Henry got to his feet and stood hold
ing his chair; it was he that was like ashes
now.
"Oh," he burst out suddenly, 81 know you
loved him!"
"The world knows that, glory be to God!"
cries she; and then to Mr.. Henry: There is
none but me to know one thing-that you
were traitor TO him in your heart"
God knows" groans he, ait was lost love
on both sides"
Time went by i'm the house after that with
out much change; only they were now three
instead of four, which was a perpetual re-
minder of their loss. Miss AlisOn'S money
you are to bear in mind was highly needful
for the estates: and the one brother being
dead, my old lord soon set his heart upon her
marrying the other. Day in, day out, he
would work upon her. sitting by the chimney
side with his finger in his Latin book, and his
eyes set upon her face with a kind of pleasant
ntentneSs that became the old gentleman
very well. If she wept, he would condole
with her, like an ancient man that has seen
worse times and begins to think lightly even
| of sorrow; if she ragged, he would fall to
reading again in his Latin book, but always
with some civil excuse; if she offered las she
often did to let them have her money in a
gift, he would show her how little it consisted
with his honor, and remind her, even if he
should consent. that Mr. Henry would GER
tainly refuse.
No doubt this lu.ec persecution wore away
much of her resolve; no doubt, besides, he
had a great influence on the girl, having
stood in the place of both her parents; and
for that matter, she was herself filled with
the spirit Of the DurieS, and would have gone
a great way for the glory Of Durrisdeer, but
not so far, | think. as to marry my poor
patron, had it not been strangely enough
for the circumstance of his extreme unpopu-
larty.
This was the work of Tam Macmorland.
There was not much harm in Tam; but he
had that grievous weakness, a long tongue;
and as the only man in that country who
had been out Tor rather who had come in
again he was sure of listeners. Those that
have the underhand in any fighting, have
observed are ever anxious to persuade them
selves they were betrayed. By Tam's ac-
count of it, the rebels had been betrayed at
every turn and by every officer they had;
they had been betrayed at Derby, and be-
trayed at FalSirk; the night march was a
step of treachery of my Lord Georges; and
Culloden was lost by the treachery of the
Macdonalds. This habit of imputing treason
grew upon the fool, till at last he must have
in Mr.. Henry also. Mr.. Henry (by his &C
count had betrayed the lads of Durrisdeer:
he had promised to follow with more men,
and instead of that he had ridden to King
George.
"Ay, and the next dayl" Tam would cry.
The puir bonnie master and the puir, kind
lads that rade w him, were hardly over the
scaur, or he was aff-LL, Judis! Ay, weel-
he has his way OFT; he's to be my lord, nae
less, and there's mony a cauld corp amang
the Helan,l heatherI" And at this, if Tam
had been drinking, he would begin to weep.
Let any one speak long enough he will get
believers This view of Mr.. Henry's behavior
crept about the country by little and little;
it was talked upon by folk that knew the
contrary bub were short of topics; and it was
heard and believed and given out for gospel
by the ignorant and the i'll willing. Mr..
Henry began to be summed; yet awhile, and
the commons began to murmur as he went
by, and the women who are always the most
bold because they are the most safe to cry
out their reproaches to his face.
The master was cried up for a saint 1t
was remembered how he had never had any
hand in pressing the tenants; as, indeed, no
more he had, except to spend the money. He
was little wild perhaps, the folks said; but
how much better was natural, wild lad that
would soou have settled down, than skin
flint and a sneckdraw, sitting, with his nose
in an account book, to perSecute poor ten
ants One trollop, who by all accounts had
been very badly used by the master, yet made
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