Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-10-04

Va bAhS IOSiI eI III ia SLiNAplta III
as in bodily fear.
Fergus Grahane faced about again to
confront a new antagonist. The hot blood
of her race flushed Elsia Stewart cheeks.
The fire of battle was In her eyes. Her
head was held aloft. Her hands were
tightly clinched. Had a sword been in her
grasp she would have run him through.
"You coward! You murderer!'' she
cried, stamping her little foot on tho rock.
Grahame was now quite cool. Ho looked
straight and steadily into her eyes. Never
had a woman seemed SO fair in his sight.
Your man is quite safe and unhurt,"
he said quietly. "Listen to him!'' And
indeed Sandy's below was easily heard
above the roar of the lin.
She made to pass him and to scramble
down to the waters edge to the rescue of
her clamorous henchman, but her wom-
ans skirts werc a hopeless impedimont.
Permit me, Miss Stewart" said the
imperturbable young man. I'm gait him
for you in o moment"
With a skillful but not too gentle hand
Sandy was gated by the collar and brought
%floundoring and gasping to the bank as if
he had been the big trout himself. He rose
upright, with the water streaming from
his clothes and his great beard and form
ing a pool at his feet, and stood waiting
'for "a signal from his young mistress, IL
resolute whether to fight or to fly. Fergus
Grahame settled the matter.
Run up to Carve House and get a
change Of clothes and "a dram. There's
half u sovereign for your wetting and your
fright. Do you know, man, - he added,
with a touch of malice, that you've been
guilty Of trespass as well as ASSAULT"
At the word ''trespass" Sandy Tosh
quailed and disappeared in the direction Of
the dram. The anger had not fled from
the eyes of the lady of Drumbane. Into
them, however, had come some confusion.
"You are the trespasser, sir" she said
proudly.
You are welcome to fish and walk
where you like on Carve, Miss Stewart"
he replied composedly. But I think you
will find that l am standing on my w
ground"
The young laird strobe home less fancy
free than before. A new presence seemed
to haunt the Vistas of tho Black wood-a
face fair and proud, eyes menacing and
scornful that might yet kindle with the
light of love. Ho had been baked in his
wish to bring homo the great trout. Was
he setting forth ON a longer and more
ticklish qucstY
AS for Elsie, she was left sole mistress of
the field Of quarrel, but hot and vexed at
heart. What was this young man that he
should have tripped up, along with the
heels of her gillie, her own maidenly COM
posure and taken from her q woman's
dearest privilege-the right Of the last
word? 1t was hopeless any longer to think
Of seeking the willy guardian Of tho pool
when the stranger had failed. There was
that in the bull trout's jaw that would
keep him from rising to fly for many a
day.
Next morning saw her pony at the office
door, in the main street Of Clashnore, of
the "old writer, " who was agent and local
adviser for the family of Drumbane, as
well as for Carve and for other properties
around. She got small comfort.
SANDY Tosh may thank his stars that
he got off with a ducking, the gomeril!"
said the lawyer dryly. "The ground is
Garve's. The question has been fought
with sharp steel by the waterside and with
counsels' tongues in the court of session,
and there is no longer room for doubt"
A\uu IitbfC ElDOO ullCIC anu llollCu SCUIcs
of times, objected Miss Stewart of Drum
bane, land the old laird has watched me
when he thought l did not see him and
never said a word"
NATURALLY you are your mothers w
image, forbye having her quick temper,
and this lad, if l am not mistaken, has a
good swatch of his fathers dourness. You
know that 80 years ago Carve and Drum
bane were to have joined acres and for
tunes?'
II have heard something. Tell me about
it,"
"The marriage day was fixed when they
quarreled beside the Kelpie's pool, their
trysting place. What the quarrel was about
there is none that knows unless it be the
big trout Of the spirit Of mischief. But
neither would make it up, and they went
their several ways. Your mother married
her cousin, and Norman Grahame went
abroad for his wife"
"And evil came of 1t, i" murmured the
girl, her bright eyes clouding and dim
ming with memories.
"Nay, there was one very charming re-
suit was the gallant response.
Elsie was silent for a little. Then a
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"Then this young man narrowly escaped
being my brotherf"
she is no doubt better pleased with
things as they are"
"That is not a compliment to me-, Mr..
Falconor,' . said Miss Stewart of Drum
banc, willfully misunderstanding.
The courtly old lawyer saw his fair client
to the door. As he helped her to mount
there was the rattle Of wheels careerina
along the Clashmore causeway. Young
Grahame drove past, sitting in a high trap
behind his swift stepping mare. He raised
his whip arm in salutation to the factor
and glanced with suppressed eagerness at
his companion. At last came his reward
She bowed slightly and smiled. The eyes
of the old friend of the family followed
them as they went their different ways
When she had ridden . few PAGES, the lady
as If moved by some will more powerful
than her own, turned her head and looked
after the charioteer. He, too, was gains
backward, while his mare pranced and
curyeted to the peril Of the gas lamps alHd
windows of Clashvlore, his whip raised
aloft as if it was another wishing wand.
Then the shrewd man Of affairs smiled in
his turn.
1.-THE quarrel has come first. All will
go well" he said to himself.
So also said Clashmore, spying from the
windows on the street, where the begin.
ming of y love story and the end Of a feud
are not seen every day.-London Black
and White.
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