The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-08-04

ht'iC VI no coHiHeTce WIN tne MAJ
ter while that business lasted. No
was he, on his side, more commun
catiye. Miss Alison, indeed, wa
always sending him expresses, but
do not know If she had many an
swers. Macconochie rode for he
once, and found the Highlanders be
fore Carlisle. and the master ridin.
by the princes side in high favor,
he took the letter $50 Macconochit
tells), opened it, glanced it through
with a mouth like a man whistling
and stuck it in his belt, whence, on
his horse passageing, it fell unre
garded to the ground 1t was Mac.
conochie who picked it up; and he
still kept it, and indeed l have seen
it in his hands. News came to Dur
risdeer of course, by the common re-
port, as it goes travelling through a
country, thing always wonderful to
me. BY that means the family
learned more of the masters favor
with the prince, and the ground It
was said to stand on; for by a strange
condescension in a man so proud
only that he was man still more
ambitious-he was said to have crept
into notability by trucking to the
Irish. Sir Thomas Sullivan, Colonel
Burke, and the rest were his daily
comrades, by which course he with
drew himself from his own country
folk. All the small intrigues he had
a hand in fomenting; thwarted my
Lord George upon thousand points:
was always for the advice that
seemed palatable to the prince. no
matter if it was good or bad; and
seems upon the whole like the gam
bier he was all through life) to have
had less regard to the chances of the !
campaign than to the greatness of
avor he might aspire to, if (by any |
uck) it should succeed. For the rest.
lie did very well in the field; no one
Questioned that; for he was no
oward
The next was the news of Culloden.
7hich was brought to Durrisdeer by
ne of the tenants sons, the only
uryivor, he declared, of all those
nat had gone singing up the hill.
y an unfortunate chance, John Paul
nd Macconochie had that very morn
lg found the guinea piece (Which
as the root of all the evil sticking .
holly bush; they had been "up }
e gait" as the servants say at Dur >
sdeer, to the change-house; and If f,
ey had little left of the guinea
ey had less of their wits. What
ust John Paul do but burst into the
III where the family sat at dinner. !,
d cry the news to them that "Tam J..
was but new lichtit at -
door, an-wirra, wirra-there .
re name to come behind him ?" -
They took the word in silence like =,
k condemned; only Mr.. Henry car ..
ng his palm to his face, and Miss :,
son laying her head outright upon -
hands. AS for my lord, he was .,
e ashes.
1 have still one son." says he. -
nd, Henry, will do you this JUS ~
2, 1t is the kinder that is left
was a strange thing to say in y,
n moment; but my lord had >,
'er forgotten Mr.. Henry's speech. y,
he had years of injustice on his 10
science. Still it was a strange ~
1g; and more than Miss Alison -
Id let pass. She broke out and i,
med my lord for his unnatural 49,,
DIS, and Mr. Henry because he was ~.
ing there in safety when his vi
Their lay dead, and herself because
had given her sweetheart i'll
DIS at his departure: calling him ~,
Hover of the flock, wringing her
dis, protesting her love, and cry .
on him by his name; so that the vo
ANTS stood astonished.
+. Henry got to his feet and stood 10
ling his chair; it was he that was ~
ashes now. .,1
d." he burst out, suddenly. az
W you loved himi" -,
The world knows that, glory be to =
y cries she; and then to Mr.. roo
ry: There is none but me to ooa
" one thing-that you were a
or to him in your heart" .e
- was ugl,
love on both sides" scr.
me went by in the house after her