The Yale expositor., 1915-12-09

clared, the balance was inclining slight
ly toward recovery.
II was in the afternoon of this third
day, when she had been reading to
him, at his own request, the sayings of
the Man on the Mount. that he re-
ferred for the first time to the details
of the accident which had so nearly
blotted him out. Upon his asking, she
related the few and simple facts of
the rescue. modestly minimizing her
own part ir It. and giving her com
panion in the catboat full credit.
THE writer-man," he said thought
fully, when she had finished telling
him how Griswold had worked over
him n the boat, and how he would not
give up. 81 remember; you fetched
him out to the hotel with you one
day; no, you medina fear I'll be for
getting him" Then, with a shrewd
look out of the steel-gray eyes: How
long have you been knowing him,
Maggie. child?"
oh for quite a long time" she has
tened to say. "I1e came here, sick and
helpless, one day last spring, and
well, there isn't any hospital here in
Wahaska, you know, so we took him
in and helped him get over the fever,
or whatever it was. This was his room
while he stayed with us"
Andrew Galbraith wagged his head
on the pillow.
81 know" he said. And ye're doing
il again for a poor auld man whose
siller has never bought him anything
like the love you're spending on him.
You're everybody's good angel, I'm
thinking, Maggie. lassie" Though he
did not realize it, his sickness was
bringing him day by day nearer to his
far-away boyhood in the Inverness
shire hills, and it was easy to slip into
the speech Of the mother-tongue. Then,
after a long pause, he went on: He
wasna wearing a beard, a red beard
trimmed down 70 a spike-this writer
man, when ye found him, was he?"
She shook her head NO. | have
never seen him with a beard"
The sick man turned his face to the
wall, and after a time she heard him
repeating softly the words which she
had just read to him. But If ye for
give not men neither will
your father forgive. ." And
again, Judge not that ye be not
judged" When he turned back to her
there were new lines of suffering in
the gray old face.
Pm sore beset, child; sore beset,
he sighed. you were telling me that
MacFarland and Johnson will be here
tonight?'
Yes; they should both reach Wa
haska this evening"
Another pause, and at the end of it:
THAT man Brofiin; you'll remember
you asked me one day who he was, and
l tellt ye he was a special officer for
the bank Is he still here?"
Gle is; l saw him on the street this
morning"
Again Andrew Galbraith turned his
face away, and he was quiet for SO
long a time that she thought he had
fallen asleep. But he had not.
You're thinking something of the
writer-man, lassie? Don't mind the
clavers of an auld man who never had
a chick or child of his ain"
Her answer was such as a child
might have made She lifted the big
jointed hand on the coverlet and
pressed it softly to her flushed cheek
and he understood.
Il thought so; was afraid So" he
said, slowly. you say you have known
him a long time; it Gamma have been
long enough, bairnie."
But it is" 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 a time when
didna believe it."
81 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 loving lassie, Maggie. anc
that's a there is to it," he commented
and after another interval: "Wha
must be, must be. We spoke of this
man Broffin: ] must see him before
! Johnson comes. Can ye get him fol
me. Maggie, child?"
She nodded and went downstairs t
the telephone, returning almost imme
| diately.
81 was fortunate enough to catcl
! him at the hotel. He will be here in
few minutes" was the word sh,
brought; and Galbraith thanked hei
with his eyes.
when he comes. ven let me SCI
him alone-just for few minutes" h,
begged; and beyond that he said NJ
more.
II was after the click of the gat,
latch had announced Broffins arriva
that Margery drew the shades to shu
out the glare of the afternoon sun
lowering the one at the beds head s,