The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-21
GRAHAM OF scLAVERHoUsE.
some day, but 1t Will not be at the hands
OF y skulking Coyennntcr In q street

some day, but 1t Will not be at the hands
OF a skulking Covenantcr in a street
brawl.
and the future is known only TO Cod
then bescech you that ye be worthy of
yourself. and show them that ye are my
Lady Dundee. 81 fall. then ye must
csiild shall live. too. and II he be boy
as ] am sure he will be--then We have
your life-work. Trnin him up in The
good faith and in loyalty to the king;
good cause and died for it. ana how his
own father followed in the steps OF the
Marquis. Train him for the best life a
mon can live, and make him a soldier.
ye will not die till he has avenged his
fathers murder. That will be worthy Of
your blood and your rank, aye, and the
love which has been between US, Jean
Cochrane and John Graham
She held him in her arms till the very
breastplate was warm. and SHE kissed
him twice upon the lips. Then she
raised herself to her full height-and she
was as tall as Graham-and looking
proudly ut him, she said:
''Ye have put strength into me. as II
the iron which covers your breast had
passed into my blood. Ye so to-day, with
my full Will to serve the king, and God
protect and prosper you, my husband
and my Lord Dundee
For a space the heat of Jeans high
courage cheered her husbands heart, but
az the day wore on, and hour By hour
covered Fife, tile temperature OF his
heart began to correspond with the at
lnosphere. Willie Dundee had always
carried himself bravely before men. and
had kept his misgivings to himself. and
seemed the most Indifferent OF gay Cava-
llers he had really been modest and
difiident man. From the first lie had
had grave fears OF the success OF his
cause, and more than doubts about the
loyalty of his comrades He was quite
prepared not only for desperate effort,
but for final defeat. No man could say
he had embarked on the royal service
been "a shrewd Lowland Scot, he had
surely consulted his safety and changed
his side. as most Of his friends were
doing. Graham did not do this for an
imperative reason-- because he had been
80 made that he could not. There are
natures which are not consciously dis
honest or treacherous. but which are
flexible and accommodating. They are
open to the play OF every influence, and
are sensitive to environments; they are
loyal when others are loyal, but If there
be change in spirit round them they
Immediately correspond and they do SO
not from any selfish calculation, but
merely through quick adaptation to en-
vironment. People of this kind find
themselves by an instinct on the win
ming side. but they would be nightly Of
Tended II they were charged with being
opportunities. They are at each moment
thoroughly convinced of their integrity.
and are ever on the side which commends
itself to their judgment; ii it happens
to be the side on which the sun is shin
ing, that is a felicitous accident. There
are other natures narrower. possibly. and
more intractable. whose chief quality is
a thorough-going and masterful devotion,
perhaps to Il person. perhaps to a cause.
once this devotion Is given, it can never
be changed by any circumstance except
the last and most ineXcusablc treachery,
madness OF hatred which nothing will APP
pease. There Is no optimism in this
character. very often a clear sighted and
painful acceptance of facts; faults are
mated at their full strength sacrifice is
discounted. and defeat is accepted. But
the die is cast, and for veal or woe
most likely woe-they must go on their
was the mold in which Dundee was cast.
the heir of shattered hopes and the de-
scendant of broken men. the servant of
a discredited and condemned cause. He
faced the reality and knew that he had
only one chance out of a hundred Of
success; but it never entered his mind
to yield to circumstances and accept the
new situation. There was indeed, mo-
ment when he. would have been willing,
not to change his service. but to sheathe
his sword and stand apart. That mo-
ment was over, and now he had hidden
his wife good-by and was riding through
the cold gray mist to do his weary, hope
less best for an obstinate. foolish inn
practicable king. and to put some heart,
If it were possible. into a dwindling hand
full Of unprncipled. sef-seekins, double
minded men. The day was full of omens.
and they We're all against him. Twice
a hare ran across the road, and Grimond
muttered to himself as he rode behind
his master. "The ill-faured beast" AS
they passed through Glenfarg a raven
followed them for a mile. croaking weird
~. a troopers horse stumbled and fell.
and the man had to be left behind, in
sensible. When they halted for an hour
at kinrossti it spread among the people
who they We're, and they We're watched
sby hard. unsympathetic faces. The inn
keeper gave them what they needed, but
with ilNgrace and it was clear that only
fear of Dundee prevented him refusing
food both to man and beast. When they
left crowd had gathered. and us they
rode out from the village voice cried:
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