The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-06

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mortal rider could ride that horse g
fts death that night Even before he
closed the door We heard the rapid
sliding. catching gallop. The horse
mot.
4 NY uncle was ashy gray. Suddenly
ne had grown quite still. He lifted
his wife and helped her to her own
big leathern arm chair at the other
side Of the ingle.
Light the lamp Mary" he said to
me. In q hushed, strange voice. Then
he stopped, and threw me small pine
logs on the peats and stirred the blaze
till It caught the dry. splintered edges,
Rory. poor blind beast, came YEARLY
and with low whine to his side. Then
1t lay down before the warm blaze.
Bring the Book" he said to me.
brought the great leather-bound
Gcelic Bible, and laid 1t on his knees.
He placed his hand In 1t and opened
at random.
"with Himself be the word" he
said.
"Is 1t Per.ce?" asked Aunt Elspeth,
in a tremulous whisper.
ut is Peace" he answered. his voice
gentle, his face stern as a craven rock.
And what he read was this, where his
eye CHANGED upon as he opened at the
place in the Book of the Vision OF
Nashum the Elkoshite:
What do you imagine against the
Lord? He will make q full end"
After that there was q silence. Then
he rose. and told me to go and lie
down, and sleep; for on the morrow,
after dawn, I was to go with him to
where Muireall was.
I saw Aunt Elspeth rise. and put her
arms about him. They had peace. I
went to my room, but after a brief
while returned and sat in the quietness
| there by the glowing peats till dawn.
The grayness came at last. With 1t
the rain ceased. The wind still soughed
and walled among the corries and upon
the rocky braes: with low means
signing along the TANKS of the near
hills, and above the stony watercourse
where the Gorromalt surged with
swirling foam and loud and louder
tumult.
My eyes had closed in my WEAKNESS
when I heard Rory give low growl,
followed by contented whimper. AL
most at the same moment the door
opened. I looked up, startled.
1t was Morag.
She was so white, 1t is scarce to be
wondered at that 1 took her at first for
wrath. Then saw how drenched
she was, chilled to the bone, too. She
did not speak as led her in and made
her stand before the fire. while I took
off her soaked dress and shoes. In ST.
lence she made all the necessary
changes, and in silence drank the tea
had brewed for her.
Come to my room with me-" she
whispered, as with quiet feet we
crossed the stone flags and went up the
wooden stair that led to her room.
When she was in bed she babe me
put out the light and lie down beside
her. Still silent, we lay there in the
darkness, for at the side Of the house
the hill gloom prevailed and moreover
the blind was down-drawn. I thought
the weary moaning of the wind would
make my very heart sob.
Then, suddenly. Morag put her arms
about me. and the tears streamed
warm about my neck.
flush Morag-aghray. hush mo-run,"
I whispered in her ear. Tell me what
it is, dear! Tell me what it is!''
20 Mary, and loved him so! loved
him.
ct know it. dear; knew it all
along"
I thought her sobs would never cease
till her heart was broken. SO I ques-
toned her again.
YES" she saidr gaspingly. Eyes, I
loved him when Muireall and I were
in the South together. met him
month or more before ever she saw
him. He loved me, and promised to
marry him. But would not go away
with him as he wished; for he said his
father would never agree. And then
he was angry. and we quarreled. And
TO was glad too. for I did not wish
to marry an Englishman-or to live in
a dreary city; but-but-and then he
and Muireall met, and he gave all his
thoughts to her, and she her love to
him."
"And now?"
''Now?-Now Muireall is dead"
Dead? o Morag! dead? o poor
Muireall that we loved so! But did
you see her? Was she alive when you
reached herr"
mo. But she was alone. And now,
Mary, listen. Here is thing have
to tell you. When Ealasaid Cameron,
that was my mothers mother, was a
girl, she had a cruel sorrow. She had
two sisters whom she loved with all her
heart. They were twins, Silis and
Morag. One day an English officer at
Fort William took Stills away with him
as his wife, And then she discovered
that she was no wife, for the man was
already welded to woman in the
South She left him that night. 1t
was bitter weather and mid-winter.
She reached home through a wild
snow drift. It killed her. But before
she died she said to Morag, He has
killed me- And Morag understood.
So it was that before any wind of
Spring blew upon that snow. the man
was dead"
When Morag stopped here and said
no more, 1 did not at first realize what
she meant to tell me. Then it flashed
upon me.
30 Morag, Morag!" exclaimed, ter
rified. But Morag, do you know
you will not"
"Will mott" she repeated with q
strange catch in her voice.
'dsten, Mary. While I lay beside
my darling Muireall, weeping and