White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1922-12-08

trespass against us. For Thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the
glory. for ever and ever. Amen"
"Ah. that is easy saying" said my
lord. THAT is very easy saying,
Mackellar. But for me to forgive? ]
think l would cut a very silly figure,
If l had the affectation to pretend
it,"
THE BARN, my lord" said l. with
some severity, for l thought his ex-
pressions little fitted for the ears of
children.
why, very true" said he. This is
dull work for a BARN. Let's go nest.
Ing.
forget If it was the same day, but
it was soon after, my lord, finding
me alone, opened himself little more
on the same head.
"Mackellar," he said, 81 am now a
very happy man"
Il think so indeed, my lord" said
I, "and the sight of 1t gives me a
light heart"
There Is an obligation In happ1
ness, do you not think so?" says he,
musingly.
II think so indeed" says 1, land
one in sorrow too. If we are not here
to try to do the best, in my humble
opinion, the sooner we are away the
better for all parties"
GAY, but If you we're In my shoes,
would you forgive him." asks my
lord.
The suddenness of the attack lit
tie graveled me. ut Is a duty laid
upon lis strictly" said I.
"IIut!" said he. "These are express
sions! Do you forgive the man your
self?"
"yvell-no!" said 1. God forgive
me, 1 do not"
Shake hands upon that" cries my
lord, with a kind of joviality.
1T is an Ill sentiment to shake
hands upon" said I, "for Christian
people. think l will give you mine
on some more evangelical occasion"
This l said, smiling little, but as
for my lord, he went from the room
laughing aloud.
For my lords slavery to the child,
can find no expression adequate
He lost himself In that continual
thought; business, friends, and wife
being all alike forgotten or only re
membered with painful effort, like
that of one struggling with a posset
1t was most notable in the matter OF
his wife. Since l had known Durris
deer, she had been the burden Of his
thought and the milestone of his eyes
and now, she was quite cast out.
An odd situation resulted; that we
had once more two parties in the
house, and that now | was Of my
lady's. Perhaps her sentiment to my
lord, as it had been. founded from the
first in pity, was that rather Of a
mother than wife, perhaps it
pleased her (if l may SO say to
behold her two children SO happy in
each other; the more as one had sui
fered so unjustly in the past. But FOL
all that, and though / could never
trace In her one speck Of jealousy
she must fall back for society or
poor, neglected Miss Katharine; ant
l, on my part, came to pass my spare
hours more and more with the moth
er and daughter.
What troubled us most, however
was the great and growing danger te
the child. My lord was his father
over again: it was to be feared the
son would prove a second master
Time has proved these fears to have
been quite exaggerated. Certainly
there is no more worthy gentleman
today in Scotland than the seventh
Lord Durrisdeer. OF my own exoduf
from his employment, 1t does not be
come me to speak, above all in {
memorandum written only to justify
his father
But our fear at the time was LEST
he should turn out, in the person Of
his son. second edition of his
brother.