The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-10-06

= sure | am very much your debtor TO
all your ciyility, Mr.. Whateveryoul
II name-is; and just as a last word, ant
II since you show so much intelligen
interest, | will mention a small Gil
cumstance that may be of use to thu
family. For believe my friend omit
ted to mention that he has the larges
pension on the Scots Fund of any
refugee in Paris; and it's the more
" disgraceful, sir" cries the colonel
> warming, because there's not one
dirty penny for myself"
: He cooked his hat at me, as if had
: been to blame for this partiality then
changed again into his usual swagger-
ing civility shook me by the hand,
and set off down to the boat, with the
money under his arms, and whistling
as he went the pathetic air of "Shule
Aroon."
1t was the first time | had heard
that tune; | was to hear it again.
words and all, as you shall learn; but
| remember how that little stave of
it ran in my head, after the free-trad-
ers had babe him "Wheesht in the
deirs name and the grating of the
oars had taken its place, and l stood
and watched the dawn creeping on
the sea, and the boat drawing away.
and the lugger lying with her foresail
backed awaiting it,
The gap made in our money was a
sore embarrassment; and among
other consequences, it had this: that |
| must ride to Edinburgh and there
raise new loan ON very questionable
terms to keep the old afioat; and was
thus, for close upon three weeks, alb
sent from the house of Durrisdeer.
What passed in that interval, 1 had
none to tell me; but | found Mrs.
Henry, upon my return, much changed
in her demeanor; the old talks with
my lord for the most part pretermit-
ted; certain depreciation visible to-
ward her husband, to whom l thought
she addressed herself more often;
and for one thing, she was now
greatly wrapped up in Miss Kathar-
inc. You would think the change was ,
agreeable to Mr.. Henry! no such mat
ter!
To the contrary, every circumstance !.
of alteration was stab to him: he
'ead in each the avowal of her tru-
INT fancies: that constancy to the
master of which she was proud while
he supposed him dead, she had to
lush for now she knew he was alive:
md these bushes were the hated
pring of her new conduct. | am to
onceal no truth; and | will here say Il
lainly, | think this was the period
l which Mr.. Henry showed the worst
lie contained himself, indeed in pub "
C; but there was a deep-seated irri-
ation visible underneath With me. o'
ON whom he had less concealment. q
was often grossly unjust; and even u
II MS wife, he would sometimes have 81
sharp retort: perhaps when she had
Titled him with some unwonted kind
ess; perhaps upon no tangible occa- 'i'
on, the mere habitual tenor of the ..
ans annoyance bursting spontane-
sly forth. When he would thus for va
It himself Ga thing so strangely out "
keeping with the terms of their re-
tom, there went a shock through
e whole company; and the pair -
'uld look upon each other in kind
panied amazement.
All the time too, while he was in ,
ing himself by this defect of tenn inc
T, he was hurting his position by me
silence of which | scarce know FRO
ether to say it was the child of fan
lerosity or pride. The free.traders Won
ne again and again, bringing mes NOT
lgers from the master, and none had
parted empty-handed | never burst doc
son with Mr.. Henry; he gave what bor
asked OF him in kind of noble as
.e. Perhaps because he knew he tho
inoiiiiiiis TO the par visi
lonious, he took a back-foremost A
assure in the reckiessness with and
lch he supplied his brothers ext saw,
ce
'erhaps the falsity of the position mon
I'D have spurred humber man van,
} the same exeesses. But the es- -
Cif | may say sol groaned under di@e
our daily expenses were shorn MOI.
er and lower; the stables were nov.
'tied all but four roadsters. serv. r.