Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06

G3k)NcA Davy. Gle judgment, an I'll 'bide
W1N5 by it." So Sir Thomas Gordon, wonder
1l0 worker in things of iron and steel and
eZSRA Knight by grace of proud King, ended
u iEL|G a recital in which he had laid bare the
ran' CSE heart Of him. There was pathetic note
NS4&0N of appeal in his voice. He leaned forward
in his chair as he spoke, and brought his
troubled eyes from gray Glasgow and the trafhcreted
Clyde below the smoke gred window at his side to the
face of the he had called friend for fifty years.
David McGavock, of the house of McGavock, Mac
Calum & Co., Limited.
The two men alone in McGavock's tar-odorous
and spicescented office, whence ordered the going
and coming of ships upon all the seas of the world
McGavock held Gordons gaze for second; then
without word he hoisted his long, lean frame from his
big desk chair Three deliberate PAGES carried him
the There he paused to blow bit OF dust
from the rigging Of ships model that stood against the
wall Turning he retraced his steps to the desk, only
pass to the window and peer down at the rver,
gorged of ventures of sail and steam David Nc
Gavock had been known to speak suddenly either
in trade in social intercourse. Sir Thomas Gordon
understood this well. So he betrayed Impotence,
although his eyes followed his friend with no essenng
Of their burden of trouble.
"Tammas said McGavock, ending silence OF sew
eral minutes and sinking soemnly into his chair think
you there's assie O some sort at the bottom your
BARNS trouble?"
ana, Davy, ma It's no lass that's made my boy
daft
Il passed him i Sauchehall-st yesterday He's
Draw ladde; sic fellow as wad tax lassies cen.
Unconscously these two invariably dropped into the
braid Scottish tongue of their boyhood whenever they
together alone
"It'S wumman, declared the Baronet, but the
dell himself that's got into Willie. If twere skirt I'd
no be geevin' second thocht t the matter But,
Davy-An unmistakable note of pain sounded IN Cor
don's voice, and he paused slightly. "Davy, haze
builded only for him t come after me- for him 60 on
wi the warrk when I'm passed beyond. All haze done,
all haze massed up,-alls for him. | took the KNIGHT
hood simply t max him proud o me, demonstrate
that honor come WI business. Wi loot him naethngs
naethng-an he'll no tax hand. Ill be no an IRON
1nonger, he frankly says. L wad rather max song
men could no help singing picture thatd hang
their minds than bridge the world or strap 1t up wi
steel"
There was deep hurt back of all that Gordon said.
Now 1t stopped him.
Bobby Burns said something like that, Tammas'
and Davy McGavock shot a searching glance at his
friend from under his lowered shaggy gray brows.
aye, Burns an that ther gowk, Stevenson-they
fill his head This from the ironmaster with bit
terness.
"As Gods nv Judge Davy McGavock, wad rather
boy deid than ollowin the trade o that drunken
eager Burns Or
ma na Tan1masl" interrupted the shipowner with
uncommon spirit "Dinna say that. Twas the drunken
eager who left mankind Should aud acquaintance be
forgot An dinna We forget either the world Gamma:
Scots wha haze wi Wallace bled,
Scots, wfam Bruce has aften led;
Welcome to your CORY bed.
Or to victorie."
McGavock's head Strengthened proudly he
peated the lines He paused second at the verse end
and then swept on "There, Tammas Gordons the JUS
teefeecation of nation. Of Of Scotia! we've
made piece steel that Il last as longs that Ye never
wu"
but not quickly that Davy did him vince and
gulp.
hame?"
$50 haze told ye."
"Then it's my Judgment We should let him gang ava
spell. It'll be guild for him; it'll be guild for you.
we've been too much h'gther."
mist gathered in Gordons eyes, "'Twad be over
hard Davy. There's been but the twa O since the