The herald., 1893-06-25

insensibility the trial she had undergone.
She awol1e with father, mother and sis
ters around her bed, each striving to do
something for her recovery. Even the
precise Jearf had- been weeping, and Mar.
garet thoughtit was perhaps as much for
the poor young laird'e death as for herself
that Jean wept. Sho wondered to see her
father look 80 calm with mans death
resting npon Bis conscience.
But she had revived was prepared to
brave the worst news she could hear,
and which 1t would seem that all were
unwilling to tell her, for, one by one,
they all slipped out and left her alone
with her father.
"Poor lassiel" said he, more tenderly
than no was wont to speak to his chill
dren, "it has been hard upon You to bear
this only did what | thought was
right, and you must try to forgive me
for the shame brought upon you in be-
ing rofusedr----
"Say no more about IL, father. I
would have been glad indeed TO have
purchased that young mans life at the
expense Of tenfold the disappointment
or shame as you call 1t. l do not call it
so, for surely any man has right to re-
fuse namely. i'll looking lassie as your
Maggie, with her thick lips and wide
mouth. But. oh, fatherl you will, 1 fear,
see this days sud sight forever before
you. ain fsin to shut my ain cen lest
| should 500 him before me. And father,
he was man we'll worth looking at and
saving. II was hard 10 see him going to
his death, but pity you more than / do
him"
"Whcn you have said your say, just
leave or, win you, Megf You are evil
IDENTIFY little wandering in your wits,
and rs there is doctor in the next room
! think will call hun i'm
He rose and went cut before she could
demonstrate, and when he returned he
brought in d gentleman whom in the
dusk she did not recognize.
''This Is the person who called forth
your tears today, lsssie," said the laird
of Elibank roughly, but not unlxindly.
"He may do mere toward your recovery
than can, so will leave you together"
And looking steadily through the gather
ing gloom Margaret saw that the figure
which stood beside her couch was the
snftlc That had walked between the two
highland guards in that sad procession
OF the morning.
What pRssed between them is one of
the secrets of the past But one thing
we know, that tho laird Of Harden and
Margaret Murray were married in Eli
bank kirk as soon as the bans had been
published the usual time. Farther too,
we know that the marriage proved hap
by beyond the ordinary lot of mortals.
What was better than all was that the
long cherished feud between the SCOTS
and Murrays was entirely at an end
from this time. The father and sofl-in-
law became fast friends, and such was
the confidence which tho laird of Eli
bank placed in Scott Of Harden that
when he was Obliged TO leave Scotland
he left him i'll the management Of all his
affairs.
Acting as his representative, too, he
carried 800 Of tho clan of Scott to the as
sistance Of Johnstohe at the bloody bat
tie of Dryffe Sands.
As the lady Of Harden, Margaret
Murray was sooa unknown by the title
which fools had given her. The full,
red lips always disclosed the sweetest of
smiles, and her husband, proud of her
sterling worth md virtue and feelingly
alive to the love which she had coneeiv-
ed for him III what he once considered
his death hour. .iieser Aceased to repay
that love by an affection as fond and
tender as hoF owh--nffection such as
stretches tignliss into height and short
ems giants iiiso ordinary mortals and
converts the houioliest face into the face
of an angel.---J. @. Spaulding in Ro-
nance.