The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-05

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your-letters. She seemed to choke upon
the word, 50 that it sounded like an oath.
You shall never ask me twice" said /;
picked up that bundle, walked little way
forward. and cast them as tar as possible
into the sea. For very little more I
could nave cast myself after them.
The rest OF the day I walked up and
down raging. There were few names SO i'll
but what gave her them in my own mind
before the sun went down. All that had
ever heard of Highland pride seemed
quite outdone; that girl (scarce grown)
should resent so trifiing an aiiusion, and
that from her next friend, that she hsd
near wearied me with praising of! had
bitter. sharp, hard thoughts OF her, like an
angry boys. If had kissed her indeed Il
thought) perhaps she would have taken it
pretty well; and only because it had been
written down. and with spice Of jocular-
ity. up she must fluff in this ridiculous pas
sion. 1t seemed to me there was q want
OF penetration in the female sex, to make
angels weep over the case Of the poor men.
We were side by side again at supper.
and what change was there! She was
like curdled milk to me; her face was like
wooden doil's; l could have indifier-
emily smitten her or grovelled at her feet,
but she gave me not the least occasion to
do either. No sooner the meal done than
she betook herself to attend on Mrs. Geb-
bic. which / think she had little neg
lected heretofore. But she was to make
up for lost time. and in what remained of
the passage was extraordinary assiduous
with the old lady, and on deck began to
make great deal more than I thought
wise of Capt. Sang. Not but what tho
captain seemed q worthy, fatherly man;
but hated to behold her in the least
familiarity with anyone except myself.
Altogether, she was SO quick to avoid
nd ~ %
rounded with others. that l must watch q
long while before could find my oppor-
tunlty; and after it was found. l msde not
much of it, as you are now to near.
81 have no guess how have offended"
said l; lit should scarce be beyond par
don then. Oh, try if you can pardon me. I"
Il have no pardon to give" said she;
throat like marbles. II will be very much
obliged tor all your Friendships" and
she made me the eighth part of curtsy.
But had schooled my self beforehand
to say more. and was going to say it, too.
There is one thing" said /. IF I
have shocked your particularly by the
showing of that letter, it cannot touch
Miss Grant. She wrote not to you. but to
a poor, common, ordinary lad, who might
have had more sense than to show it If
you are to blame me"
II will advise you to say no mole about
that girl, at all events" said Catriona.
1T is her will never look the road of,
not If she lay dying" She turned away
from me, and suddenly back. will you
swear you will have no more to deal with
her 2" she cried.
'Indeed, and will never be 90 unjust,
then" said l; "nor yet 50 ungrateful.
And now it was that turned away.
CHAPTER XXIL.-HELvoErsLuY
The weather in the end considerably
worsened; the wind sang in the shrouds,
the sea swelled higher. and the ship began
to labor and cry out among the pillows.
The song of the leadsman in tho chains
was now scarce ceasing, for We third all
the way among shoals. About 8 in the
morning. in burst of wintry sun between
two squalls of hail. had my first look of
Holland-a line of windmills birling in
the breeze. It was. besides, my first
knowledge of these daft-like contrivances,
which gave me . near sense of foreign
travel and a new world and life. We
came to an anchor about II 80 outside the
harbor of Helvoetsiuys. in . place where
the sea sometimes broke and the ship
pitched outrageously. You may be sure
We were all on deck save Mrs. Gebbie-
some Of rs in cloaks, others ma ntled In
the ships tarpaulins. all clinging on by
ropes, and jesting the most like old sailor.
folk that We could initiate.
Presently boat that was backed like .
partancrab came gingerly alongside, and
the skipper of it hailed our master in the
Dutch. Thence Capt. Sang turned, very
troubled like, to Catriona, and, the rest of
Us crowding about, the nature of the diff
Guilty was made PLAIN to all. The Rose
was bound to tho port of Rotterdam,
whittier the other passengers were in great
impotence to arrive, in view OF convey.
ance due to leave that very morning in the
direction of Upper Germany: This, with
(if no time were lost) declared himself still
capable to save. Now, James More had
trysted in Helvoet with his daughter. and
the captain had engaged to call before the
port and place her according to the Gus
tOm) in a shore boat. There was the boat,
to be sure, and here was Catriona ready;
but both our master and the patrons of the
in no humor to delay.
"Your father" said no, would be geyan
little pleased if We was to break leg to ye.
Miss Drummond, let-a-be drowning of you.
Take my way of it," says he. land come
on-by with the rest of US here to Rotter.
dam. Ye can get passage down the Macs
in a sailing scOOt as far ~ to the Brill, and
thence on again, by place in rattel-
wagon, back TO Helvoet."
But Catriona would hear of no change.
She looked white-like Is she beheld the
bursting of the sprays, the green seas that
sometimes poured upon the fOrecastie, and
the perpetual bounding and swooping of
the boat among the pillows: but she stood
firmly by her fathers orders. my father.
James More, will have arranged 1t 50. was
her tirst WORD and her last ! thought it
very idle and indeed wanton in the girl to
be SO literal and stand opposite to 50 much
kind advice; but the fact 10 she had very
good reason. If she would have told Us.
Sailing scoots and rattei-wagons are excel.
lent things; only the use of them must be
first paid for. and all she was possessed OF
in the world was just two shillings and .
penny halfpenny sterling. So 1t fell out
that captain and passengers, not knowing
OF her restitution, and she being too proud
to tell them-spoke in vain.
"But you ken nae French and nae Dutch
neither" said one.
1T is very true" SAYS she, "but since
the year '46 there are so many OF the honest
Scots abroad that will be dong very we'll,
/ thank YOU"
There was . pretty country simplicity
in this that made some laugh, others looked
the more sorry. and Mr.. Gebbie fell out
right In passion. l believe he knew 1t
was his duty (his wife having accepted
charge of the grill to have gone ashore
with her and seen her safe; nothing would
have induced him to have done SO, since
il must have involved the loss of his con.
veyance, and think he made 1t up to his
conscience by the loudness OF his voice.
At least be broke ous upon Capt. Sang,
raging and saying the thing was disgrace;
that it VAS mere death to try to ieave the
ship, and at any event We could not cast