The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-10-13
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Glory whose name had echoed ever
a since in the Ssaddest corner OF his
u memory; and the cutters where he had
i learned to- slide,. an d the shop where
4 ne had trod, and the ratings ii which
4 ne had ratified his clachan as he went to
II schooi and all those thousand and one
q name.ess particulars, which the eye
i sees without noting, which the memory ,o,r,
i Keeps p indeed vet without knowing, an
Wchlch, taken one with another, build
up Tor q q US tie aspectfof the place that
we call home: all these besieged him.
as as ne Went chi, with both delight and sad
ness. s5s .75
His is. first visit was for Houston,
VINO w had azhouse on Regent IS Terrace,
Kept Tor him In old days by an aunt.
Inc door was opened Ito his surprised
upon the chain, and a voice asked him
from ron " within hin what he wanted.
II Il want " nltE Mr.. aeH Gus toni r. Allan
Hous ton,o said she.ss 2 s:3s ss=5 y..1
"A And who are sye:? ~ said the voice
lis Is mostextra Urinary e fought
] John; and then aloud he told his name.
ss' NOT young Mr.. John?,' cried the
voice, with sudden increase Of Scotch
accent s 1T stifying to a friendlier. feel
ing. @ z* szs: !. .E 81 :zs,s.@ ~,
The very same" said John. ~|
AND .thte#old butler removed his de-
lenses, remarking only, 81 thought We
We're that man., But his master was
not theere;;f he was staying, it appeared,
at the n -u5e in Murrayfel i; and though
me butler would have been glad enough
70 nave taken his place and given all
the news of the family, John, struck
with little chill, was eager to be gone,
Only, the door was scarce closed again,
before ne regretted that he had not ask
ed about that man" s. - r. r..
he was to pay no more visits till he
mad seen bis father and made all we'll
at home; Alan had been the only pos
Side exception, and John had not time
10 go as far as Murrayfeld. But here
ne was on Regents Terrace. there was
nothing to prevent him going round
the end Of the hill, and looking from
| without on the Mackenzies' house AS
ne went, he recoilected. that Flora must
now be woman of near his own age,
and 1t was. within the bounds of posi-
| blllty that she was married; but this
dlshonorable doubt he damned down.
There was the house. sure enough !:
but the door was Of another color. and
what was this--two door plates? He
drew nearer:sthe top one bore, with dig
nl1led simple. ty, the words, "Mr. Proud
| foot;;' the lover one was more explicit,
and Informed the passer-by that here
was likewise the abode of Mr. !. a.
| Dunlop Frou'foot, Advocate. = p r.
! The Proudfoots must be rich. for no
advocate could look to have much bust
ness IN so remote a quarter; and John
/ mated them for their wealth and for
their name, and for the sake OF the
| house they desoerated with their pres
ence. He remembered a Proudfoot he
mad seen at school, not known; a little
whey-facedurchin the despicable mem
Der. OF some lower class. Could it be
I this abortion that had climbed to be
an advocate, andr ow lived in the birth
place OF Flora and the home of John S
tendersst nom ores? The chill that had
| first seized upon him when he heard Of
Houston's absence deepened and struck
inward. For moment, as he stood
under the doors Of that estranged
mouse, and looked east and west along
the solitary pavement Of the Royal Ter
race, where not a cat was stirring, the
sense OF solitude and desolation took
him by the throat, and he wished him
self in San Francisco, $$-@<s.... S3s.z:
And then the figure he made with
his decent portliness. his whiskers, the
money in his purse, the excellent cigar
that he now lighted, required to his
mind in consolatory comparison with
THAT of a certain maddened lad who. on
q certain spring Sunday ten years
before, and IN the hour Of church
time silence, had stolen from that city
by the Glasgow road. In the face of
these changes, it were impious to doubt
! fortunes kindness. All would be well
yet; the Mackenzies would be found.
Flora, younger and lovelier and kinder
than before; Alan would be found, and
\ would have SO nice,y d.scriminateds his
behavior as to. have grown, on the one
hand, into avalued friend OF Mr.. Mich
! 'olson''s, and 80 have remained, upon
4 the other of. that sc..ssast shade OF jovial-
4 ity which John desired in his compan-
ions. And so, once more, ohm fell to
work discounting the delig htful future;
i his first appearance in the family pew;
Z his first visit to his uncle Greig, who
4 thought himself SO great a fnancier,
and on whose purblind Edinburgh eyes
John was to let in the dazzling day
light Of the West: and the details In
general Of that unrivaled transforms