The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-09-18

shire hills, and II was easy 10 slip into
the speech Of the mother-tongue. Then.
after long pause. he went on: HE
wasna wearing beard. . red beard
trimmed down TO . spike--this writer
man. when 20 found him. was her
She shook her head. mo; have
never seen him with q beard"
The sick man turned his face 70 the
wall. and after . time she heard him
repeating softly the words which she
had Just read TO him But II ye for
your father forgive. :" And
again. Judge not that ye DO not
judged" When he turned back to her
there were new lines OF suffering In
the gray old face.
I'm sore beset. child; sore beset."
he sighed you were telling me that
Mcfarland and Johnson will be here
tonight
"Yes; they should both reach Wa
haska this evening"
Another pause. and at the end OF II:
THAT man Broffin; you'll remember
you asked me one day who he was. and
/ tell't ye he was a special officer for
the bank. Is he still heref"
HE is; saw him on the street this
morning"
Again ApdreY QaIbraith turned bis
fatS AWAY md 81 Wzs Q6Iet Tor 10
long q time that she thought he had
fallen asleep. But he had not.
you're thinking something Of the
WATERMAN, lassie7 Don't mind the
clavers OF en- auld man who never had
a chick or child OF his ain"
Her answer was such as child
might have made. She lifted the big
jointed hand on the coverlet and
pressed It softly to her flushed cheek.
and he understood.
II thought so; was afraid So" he
said. slowly. You say you have known
him long time: II Gamma have been
long enough. bairnie."
but II IT," she insisted, Loyalty. 81
know him better than he knows him
self; oh. very much better"
"Ye know the good In him, maybe;
there's good in all men. I'm thinking
now, though there was q time when
I didna believe It."
II know the good and the bad-and
the bad is only the good turned up
side down"
| Again the sick man wagged his head
on the pillow and closed his eyes.
"Ye're q loving lassie. Maggie. and
that's a. there Is to It," he commented.
and after another interval: What
must be, must be. We spoke Of this
man Brofnn: must see him before
johnson comes. Can ye get him for
me. Maggie. child?"
She nodded and went downstairs to
the telephone, returning almost imme-
diatelv..ttnv
!, swas 1dA. fortunate enough 70 catch
him at the hotel. He will be he
few minutes" was the ri ai gu
brought: and Galbraith thanked" MI
with his eyes.
4 when he comes. ven let me sec
him aione-just for few minutes" be
begged: and beyond that he said no
more
II was after the click or the gate
latch had announced Brofin's arrival
that Margery drew the shades to shut
out the glare OF the afternoon sun.
lowering the one at the beds head 30
that the light no longer fell upon the
instruments OF the small house tele
phone set mounted upon the wall be
side the door.
: MIR. Broffin Is here. and I'll send
him up" she said But you mustn't
: let him stay long. and you mustn't tn
TO talk too much"
The sick man promised. and as she
J was going away she turned TO repeat
1.-The caution. Andrew Galbraith's eyes
were closed In WEAKNESS. and he die
Z not see that she was standing with hel
back to the wall while she admonishet
|. him, or that, when she had gone Il
7 send the visitor up. the earpiece OF thu
: house telephone set had been detached
from It's hook and left dangling by III
n wire cord. ~
. Miss Grierson went on into the II
brary after she had met the detective
( at the door and had told him how Il
, find the upstairs room. When tn
. sound OF cautiously closed door toll
r her that Broffin had entered the sick
' room, she snatched the receiver OF tn
y library house phone from Its hook AM
: held II to her ear. For little tim
; keen anxiety wrote its sign manual Il
: the knitted brows and the tight.
pressed lips. Then she smiled an
4 the dark eyes grew softly radiant. "Th
0 dear old saint" she whispered; "th
4 dear. dear old saint" And when Bro
) I'm came down few minutes later, sh
8 went to open the hall door for hin
y serenely demure and with honey o