The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-14
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senng, and she tapped the floor with her
.'Ye may not have heard Of Helen Gra-
ham, for she belongs to another world
from ours. and one pray God so may
to Scotland nave been the Gralalns from
the Marquis himself. who was n traitor
to the Covenant and q scourge to Israel,
to- this honis knaan q his r who o has
popinjay and the heart OF q 1icnd. Now.
1T happens that this fair lass, whom
pity both; for her blood and for her
Of iieth and hath the portion OF her
people, is heiress to the Earl Of Mon
tcith. and whatsoever marr.cs her Will
succeed 70 what money there Is and will
be an earl in his own RIGHT. A fine prize
for an araricious and ambitious Worldlins.
For years, then, as L was saying.
Claverhouse has been scheming and plot,
tirg 10 caPtuie l1e.vlI urauain ana to
maze himself Earl o Monteitn. IT wasna
sic easy work as shootin' Gods people
on the hillside, and for & while the sun.
didna shine on his game. Some say the
MARQUIS wanted her for himself. and
have to 80 behind like a little dog to
his masters heel. Some say that her
father had some conjunction In handing
Some say that the lass had q lover u
her own, though that Is neither here nor
there with her folk. But It's no easy
throwing a bloodhound of the track. and
and afore he left the court and came
back to his evil trade in Scotland the con-
tract OF marriage was settled; ana ane
O these days We will be hearing that a
both o theU have gotten the portion
that bclongeth to the unrighteous., Yc
ken, jean that ! have never loved the
idle, folk when they had better be readln'
their Bibles and praying for their souls,
but judged 1t expcdient that ye should
know that clavcrhouse is as guide as a
&c he were not" said Jean, looking 9! n,
self up to her full height, there Is :, little
Cochrane's daughter. Ye have given me
fair warning and have used very plain
speech, but was wondering With my
mother waited and questioned her by q
look-"whethcr 1niscallng a man black
with tho shameful lies of his enemies Is
inc nfssr 'u Rut Ionbtless
left her mothers room. who felt that she
would have succeeded :, better - h ne,
daughter he'd been less like herself.
Jean. gave truth to tell little heed
to tho stories OF Claverhouse's savagery
partly because rough deeds We're being
done on both sides ana they were ,n0s g .
that time at the shooting OF a man as
We are In our delicate days; partly, also
because she had been fed on those nor
rors for years, and had learned to re-
gard Clavcrllouse and the other roya,e I
ofIicersSas men capable Of any atroclty
Gradually the dramatic stories had grown
stale and lost their bite, and when sll'
noticed that with every new telling
was necessary o strengthen the horrors
Jean had begun to regard them as works
Of political fiction. But this was anothe
q story about $ClayerhOuse's engagement t
Helen Graham. Jean would not admit 7
herself even In her own room or In ne
Graham. and she was ready, TO- say t
herself tHat no marriage could De NOR
preposterous than between q Cochran
and a Graham. 1t did not really matte
to her whether he had been engaged
ortwenty Grahams. She had never s, see g
him till q few days ago, and very likely
having done all he wanted. he Wou
never come to Paisley Castle again
and then would run forever afterwnrd
apart They had passed some plensa1l
hours together. and she would ever re
member his face; perhaps ne might SONG SONG
times recall hers, So the little paly WG (, a
Stlll, as she knew her mother was nc
overscrupulous, and any stick, was, goo
enough whercWlth to beat Clayerhoust
she would IKE to HaHw Il ey e ave.
house was really going to marry tn
lsinswoman Of his, and, in passing
whether he was the mercenary advel
turer Of her mothers description,
between ttEt viyacious woman Ilrlst
Howieson, Jean Cochrane's maid an
humble friend. and that hard-headed an
far-seeing man Of Angus Jock Grlmon