The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-06-25
out Of sight when the hour struck

scarcely out Of sight when the hour struck
from the tower Of Elibank kirk.
"Ioo late! too late" Q led poor Mar
gatet, and she went back to her chamber TO
avoid seeing any of tho curious multitude
who, on account of her fathers connection
| with the affair. had oonRregated at Elibank
hall.
Weeping and fatigued. for Magaret had
not rested for a whole week, 80 excited had
she been, had worn her down so that only
the last straw was needed to put the finish
ing stroke to her life. Fortunately she
tainted. and forgot in insensibility the
trial she had undergone.
She awoke with father, mother and sis
tiers around her bed, each striving to do
something for her recovery. Even the pro-
cise Jean had been wesping. and Margaret
thought 1t was perhaps as much for the
that Jean wept. She wondered to see her
father look SO calm. with a mans death
resting upon his conscience.
But she had revived, and was prepared to
brave tho worst news she could hea', AND
which 1t would seem that all were unwilling
out and loft her alone with her father.
Poor lassie!' said he, moro tenderly
than he was wont to speak to his
children, 'it has been hard upon you to
bear this. I only did what ! thought was
right, and you must try to forgive me for
bu6 huhuA6 ! DVOukut tupOu yOU III USluR TO-
fused
"say no moro about IL. father. I would
have been glad indeed to have purchased
that Young mans life at the expense of
tenfo!d the disappointment or shame ~
you call it. LIDO not call IL 50; for surely
looking lassie as your Maggie with her
thick lips and wide mouth. But o. father.
Jou will, l fner. see this days sad sight for.
ever before you. Am fain to shut my ain
cen lest ! should see him before me. And.
father. he was a man we'll worth looking at
to his death, but l pity you moro than do
him"
when you have said your say just leave
of. will You. Meg? You ure evidently a
little wandering in your vita. and as there
10 q doctor in the next room. think will
call him in"
Hc rose and went ont before she could re-
monstrnte. and when he returned he b'ouRtt
In u gentleman whom in the dusk she dia
not recognize.
"This 10 the rerson who called forth your
tearS to-day. ~lassie," said the laird Of Eli
do more toward your recovrry than ! can,
SO l will leave you together" And looking
steadily through the gathering gloom Mar
gares saw that the iaurs which stood beside
her cousin was tho same that hal walked
between the two Highland guards in that
sad procession of the morning.
What passed between them ia one of the
secrets OF tho past, but one thing VIC know,
thnt tho laird OF Harden and MarRaret
Murray we're married In Elibnnk kirk IA
soon as tho bans had been published the
usual time. Further, too. we know that the
marriage proved happy bsyon the or
binary lot of mortals.
What was better than all wal that the
lona-chsrishea feud bstwoon the Scots and
Murrays was entirely at an end from this
time. The father and son-in- law became
fast friends. and such was the confidence
which tho laird OF Elibank placed in Scott
of Harden that whom he was obliged to
leave Scotland he loft him in The manage
mont of all his affairs.
Acting as hiH representative. too. III car
ried five hundred of the o!nn of Scott to the
assistance OF Johnstone at the bloody bat
Ito of Dryffe Sands.
As the lady OF Harden. Margaret Murray
was soon unknown by the title which fools
had given her. The full rad lips always
disclosed this. sweetest smiles. and her hns-
band, proud Of her sterling worth and yir-
tue. and feo!inRly alive to the love which
SHE had conceived for him in what he once
.cons,de ed his death hour, never ceased TO
ropny that love by an Affection 40 fond and
tender NJ her own--affection such M
stretches piRlnios int0 height and shortsns
giants into ordinary mortals aud converts
the honislisst face into tho fauo OF an
ANGELO. 4. Spsuldina.