Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-01

Baby brews!'
But what are you going to do here?"
/ cried, you can't stay in this cottage to-
! night and it is growing late"
81 am come to wait on ye, Master John"
he said, looking firmly at me, yell hae
heard that / hae lost my place. So hae ye
lost yours. Weel, 1 see nocht for It but
that We maun just baud thegither, you an
me-"
But I have no need for a butler" I
cried. holding out my hand, 81 have moth
ing to pay you wages. my poor Duncan.
And besides in this place"
II hae gotten a the wages that ever I
shall want frae the hoose o. Glendonwyn,"
he made answer with dignity. II drew my
last the day l gat my fee and my leave
frae the man l hae served faithfully for
fifty year. l hae neither kith nor kin
abune the mould. I hae but a few years
msir to live-though sic as / am, I am
strong and hearty, thanks to the GIver o.
the guild. So says I to myself, TITS name
right that a Glendonwyn should live In a
eothoose and be served by q foster wife
wi saps and caudle cups. Besides he will
never hae a clean sark to his back at to
put on. / haena leeved sac lang in the
hoose wi Baby without kennin' that her
clear starchin' is no At for a tinker's win
dow curtain. And so, Master John, here
l am-and wages or no wages, here / am
eome to bide. / hae near and twa thou
sand pound in the bank and unless I throw
1t guinea by guinea into the solway hood
l kenna what is to become o. 1t, or what
the better / am to be OF. / van no siller
frae ye-na, that's no my main dinaculty,
sir. And in this l want your good word.
My stumblin' block an rock o. ofense IL
juist Baby herself"
"Why?" / said. what is the matter with
Baby? Do you and she not agree to-
gether?"
He stared at me with a kind Of wonder.
&c course. ye wadna think on IT," he
said after a pause, but she doesna like my
comm ABBOTT ye-nA-." he added, thought
fully, nal Gamma say she's greatly ta'en
on wi It! But / ken hoo TO settle her
faith. III cen tell her that I'll MARRY her
IL she behaves hersel' seemly, and. as yin
mich say, wi eircumspection!"
And what good will that do. Duncan3 p
/ said, for indeed I hardly knew what to
say to his proposal, and while he talked /
was thinking OF other things. and specially
what answer l would make to his propo-
sition.
"Weel. ye see. Master john" he con-
tinued, with the utmost simplicity, "it's
this way-Babby has been at me 70 MARRY
her for q eye while noo-maybes a matter
O. forty or i've and forty years. but ! never
wad JUST say whether I wad or whether I
wadna-no to gle her an answer, as It we're.
It's the only way for q weel lookin' I'M
marriet man to get ony peace o. his life In
a hoosefu' o. weemen folk just to play
them an yin against the ither, and never
let them an contriving to do wi Baby
than WI a the rest, commit ye to oeht.
And, naturally, Baby haein' served Largest
ABBOTT the place l had msir Ai-puttin' and
that. maybe, was q kin o. bond In itseI-
aye, II was q bond, that's what Il was!
But TN gang doom nO0 and tell her that
II she'll be content 10 divide the Wark wi
me. fair an square (me to be the judEe),
III cen MARRY her as soon as you, Master
John, are fairly settled wi . bit lass o.
FOUR ain to look after ye-and. though she
Wilma think 1t. that's only the great pit
an o. al"
Have you finished. sir-mAy I AXE the
trayg"
In an instant be dropped the broad Scots
into which he had gradually driftsd, as
sumed the manner Of hs profession and
stood perfectly polite and serviceabie 1t
my elbow.
Then at last / got time to say a word.
! asked him how I could accept this service.
Il was fOolish-it vas ridiculous. In this
plain moorland house. scarce larger b a
but" and a ben" that I should Be waited
on By 4 White-tied butler. grave. gray. re-