Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-13

synopsis of Prev iOuS IpStaI IHcnts-
Sir James SransfieM Of New Milns in COM
pany with his grandson. Young Philip. meets
in I'M fousa his Philip and his sons
Iaramour, Janpt Mark. They quarrel. Sir
James goes home taking along his grand
SON That night ne IS murdered by his dis
solute aud Janet Mark Tley take his
body outside ard lay it upon ice hoe, in
the effort to fastcn the crime upon other
shoulders. But the boy Philip has witnessed
the crime. He tells his grandfathcr's chief
tenant. ImPhray Spurway. and Slurway sue
ceeds in having the real murderer brought to
Justice He is sentenced TO be hanged, his
acramplice 10 he transported. Mys-
teriously Philip SIa>Ieli escapes the gal
lows seeks his wife. finds her III the
company Of Spurvay. and tries to murder
her. but does not quite succeed. She is
taken away TO Abtr'airn for cure, leaving
ler son. young Philip. in charge of Spur
way and in the company of little Anna
Marx. from whom he learns that in some
ways girls are worth quite as much as boys.
Yet there came a time when l had a sur
prise sprung upon me. 1t on the day
when Umphray Spurway brought home his
winter beasts" These were rough and
shaggy highland cattle from the great
droves that, with an army of retainers,
passed every year southwark into England.
They went south mostly about the end of
harvest, whether the year were early
fa;Jened them on the aftermath of the hay
and on the stuDbles of the corn, presently
turning them out on the moors till the
snow came, and then killing sailing and
setting them apart as "marts' for winter
consumption.
Gmphray SpUrway bought many of these,
for, being Englishman, he loved flesh
meat, and believed that his weaver folk
worked better on it than on porridge three
times a day.
So this buying Of the mart cattle was
a great event with US, and as my mother,
though recovered of her wound and now
lodging in her own hired house in Aber-
Cairn, was still weak. 1 remained Ito my
5oyl at the Min house. 1 had looked for
ward TO the English droving as one great
opportunity of proving my superiority to
little Anna Mark. And 10 this day l can
remember the shame merging into a kind
Of reluctant admiration, mingled with hope
Iessness, with which viewed her perform
anceS- For some months, indeed, she had
made frequent absences from home during
the afternoons, and this without giving any
explanation of where she had been, though
] pleaded hard TO know.
Upon the great day We went out as soon
rs II was light, to choose and bring home
CUR bunch Of wild, rebellious highland cat
tie. II was to the Thinkers Slap that we
went, wild place among the hills to the
west, through which the drove road picked
per1lous passage, and Umphray took with
MIN score of his Weavers, armed For he
carried money, and the cattle dealers were
quite as wild as the cattle they brought with
1hen-at least, It was as We'll to err on the
safe side.
We marched rnerriIy and fast vet not so
last but that Anna and played about the
company. running round and round like the
come dogs themselves gripping, graphing
ana roilng over each other. Just as they
old. while Cmphray watched US fndulgentIy
and yet carefully, lest 1 should hurt the
So little did he know, He ought rather
10 have been careful that she did me no
harm, Tor a greater little tiger cat never
was.
And now come to nv SUNRISE
For as Cmphray Spurway with his hand
On MS pistol hilt, chose out and paid for
each wild steer or heck-mouthed bull II
was the duty of his party to meet the beaet
a. II was scourged from the drove by the
half-naked kerns of the hills who swarmed
an around Ihen, having put distance
between the chosen and his companions, the
am OF US all was To head him away to the
eastward, SO that he might not double and
FeJnIn the herd by speed of foot This va 6
nSnaliy accomplished by stones and .oads
pebbles. '1'
II was wild work at Unrestricted at
most times. a.
For The Tinklers' Slap is deem daf1e
which leads into the heart of the biiis
hlSh above the heather bends its bIac.
5rnWS 10 look over Bell heather and bent
N.Nfl>lIttS Irllcatel% the middle stones
tne bottom Is smooth and green save
wnere. in a tunnel Of bracken and oueen-
oI-the-meadow. certain trickle of a
sI[tatniet gurgles and H-ps in an enerant
But upon this noble morning of late Sem
teLioer me Thinkers Slap looked NOT Thus
S ana lovely, with only an eagle soar
w aDoEe IT, lost in the sky Down IT
tuFged vast hOrn-tossing herd of cattle
Win their noses in the air. All red and
PACK they We're. like the ragged tartaus Of
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broken clans, and mostly NacC;reaors
though some Of them called Themselves
Campoeil' who were the worst Of alb.
j MS paru-colOred tide flowed dou,n N.
bottom Of the glen like a river in fuU "a
Only In the little eddy Of Hunters rTrvSt
near the bottom where Umphray SOUR
way waited. was there a sort of hack
water Into this the drovers swent q 80
or Two Of cattle at d time, some of which
tnphFaE spurway approved. At other
Times he would have none Of tba,, 49,
pointed out beast in the thronnr as 81
sHrStd Numbering past Whereat one of
tne men on little shaggy ponies wouId
ptuIlst' az dahSer OF life and limb. into the
tuinuit OF the tide race. and guide the ami
MAJ out, and 80 bring it. believing wir,
rage and fear. 10 the appointed stance.
IL was strange To observe at the summit
OI lAe sap. directly above US the cattle
appearing Ike forest of branching horns
Banning a moment To overlook the valley
Win htdus up aud eyes dilated. ard then
uFssd by those behind, surgiug forward
again while the noise of their mighty rn1r-
Ing came 20 Us in the little vale Of the
Hunters TrySt like the triumphine Of an
angry sea that has broken bars and doors
IT was the first time had seen the great
English droving. and a fine sight il was
for man or boy 10 see
Anna Mark and ran forward to be
ready 10 receive the FIRST mart" Anna
hau oeeh given stout pointed kent" or
oaken stan TO use As goad. With this
ana her native agility she completely ont.
ran me But little l cared for thar for
was not the stone-throwing at hand AS
ran l did not observe that Anna had .
bag of pebbles fastened 10 her waist ever
as l had myself. She kept close to Sam.
derS Macmillan. a big herd from the rough
mountains whom Cmphray employed r.
watch ;he sheep he pastured on the east
eTly hills. according to his agreement with
e. James my grandfather, when he came
first to the country
the hrst beast IS always the worst tc
put on the home road. For he has as vel
no companions and ne turns and twiS,s
doubles and trebles. with feints and strata,
gems as well as straight charges. tail mr.
and horns down As ill-luck would have it
he came straight at me. ~