Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-07
CHAPTER XXXVI.
a Lion in the Path

/ took all that night 10 MINK now
should convey the papers to John Indeed,
the problem required a great deal of
thought. 1t seemed Impossible that 1 should
go TO the herds house at BennangOwer-
that is, alone. And yeti knew not how
else to obey my father. thought of Yer
onica butt did not seem as If 1 would
like to have her. For she had called once
since our homecoming. and Rupert's death,
but, of course, without seeing me. And
then everybody said that she was going to
marry John. No, she was very kind, but
/ could not ask Veronica.
Then a thought came to me and 1 laughed
yes. for the first time for many months,
as it seemed to me, laughed aloud. 1
would go TO BennangOwer. butt would
take little Johnny with me!
And as soon as 1 thought of 1t, sat down
and wrote TO Mrs. Colstoun, asking her to
let Johnny come out to me for two or three
days. l told her were going away. (She
already knew much of our troubles by let
ter-it was my only comfort-and she read
them to her husband, and John called. Be
cause. you know, had promised to hold no
communication with John without my faith
CT knOwing). So / told her were were going
quite away and it would be comfort to me
TO have Johnny for a little first And
promised to hear him his lessons and to see
that he did not eat too many gooseberries
out of the garden.
that she brought him out herself and sat
In the garden with me and talked long
time.
II was quite delightful to have little
Johnny again. He was If anything, fonder
of me than ever, and scampered all over
the joiner's shop and cut his fingers on the
tools, and was lost in the gooseberry gar
den. and fell off a tree. and did so many
things all in one evening that l was afraid
he would never last till | had need of him
about going up Bennangower. l mean All
the same it was cheerful having him. Even
my father owned that.
As for Kate she did not seem clearly to
understand. Sometimes she talked IN him
as If he were her own Babe Rupert grown
up, and then again she would stand over
the cot, and look so puzzled. saying: This
been talking foolishly."
So the next afternoon-it was June and
warm went away up the burnside toward
the nerds house of Bennangower, with lit
Tie johnny sporting about me like a frOlic-
some puppy. | knew that l was likely 10
find the minister at home. For VIII had
seen Old Anton on the way down TO the
post office. and he told him that the minis
ter had been out all the morning seeing
some sick people over in the village. but
would be home for what that Aud Duncan
called lUnch-"a daftlike word for vour
denner, the CamerOnian elder thought
L had the papers about Boatcroft in a
little leather portfolio in which l used to
carry the children's exercises to the acade-
my of Kilgour. And when / got near the
house, which shone out white and bonnv
on little knoll. with the garden beneath
II and the burn roaring through the Bennan
Linn fifty yards to the west, / saw old Bah
by. Johns nurse, coming to meet meas il
were, IN a great hurry.
| called Johnny TO come and take nv,
hand, and then in minute there was Ba b.
by standing IN front of me as If to block
the way 10 the house. At another time I
would have laughed. But then / only said
with dignity, Il wish to see Mr.. John Gle
oonwyn. Is he at homer"
Its no his hour for seem foyk-this -
She retorted with some acrimony ma GER
test l wad like to ken whaur the sermons
wad come frae, gin the minister had nocht
TO do but waste his time wi idle Migrants
and run-the-countriesw
/ could not help smiling as | answered
the old lady, who had hitherto always been
Kind TO me. But did not know how great
fy Of late she had been accustomed to be
caa some eye queer names. Aye they
usaun THAR
oh, Babby." 1 said smiling II do hone
that you do not mean met
Dinna 'Babby' me- Mistress Fairlie Glen
dinln, she cried with a toss of her head
fowk that are sac lang ava frae hame am
nae reason gi EN- may expec' to be caa' et,
queer names Aye, they maun thatr'
We'll, Babby,' / began-but got no far
Their
Did no tell We no to 'Babby' me-" she
cried. Miss Barbara, II We please aye.
and IT may be something else afore lang.