Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-02-09

/ had company an irritation 70 see her
friendly foot keeping the study door
open. / sic up here reading and nodd-
lng, OK GO cut and shovel. though AL
shovel away. and more, may be back
Il By morning.
OF an evening Posty sometimes struts
up and down IN front 81 the Five
Houses playing on his pipes. can just
see him passing and repaszing the
gIints Of light like q pendulum. But
I can hear him from the manse. and
stiu better from The burnside. Il I slip
down 70 listen IN the dark. On one Of
those nights I got q dirl IN the breast
Of me. II was when went back 20 the
manse after hearing him finish with
merely amusing piece. MY Name II is
1 Little Jock Elliott" The glen was IN
silence now, but as I opened the naanse
door heard my fiddle playing, nay
Name II Is Little Jock Elliott" For =
moment thought that Christilly-
then knew she must be bedded, and
she had no ear. and It was grandeur
playing than PoStys, though he is a
kittle hand. I suppose I did not stand
stil in my darkened passage for more
than half a minute, and when struck
a match 10 get at a candle the music
stopped.
There Is no denying that the stories
about the Spectrum fitted through me,
and It needed q shove from myself to
take me up the stair. OF course there
was nobody. had come back with the
tune In my ears, or It was caused by
some vibrations in the air. found my
fiddle IN the locked press Just as I
had left it, except that It must have
been leaning against the door, FOR 1t
fell into my arms as opened the
press, and had the queer notion that
It chung to me. I could not compose
myself till had gone through my
manse with the candle, and even after
that let my fiddle sleep with me.
More reasonable thoughts came TO me
in the morning as that 1t might De
hard on an instrument never TO be let |
do the one thing 1t can do, and that.
maybe, like the fiddlers. they have a /
swelling to cry out to rivals, Il can
do better than that" Any enticement
I may have felt to take advantage Of
this fancy and put the neck-rest be-
meath by chin again suppressed, but
let Posty know he could have the loan
Of my instrument on condition that he
got it across the burn dry.
BY the smiths connivance this was
accomplished in cart. It is now my
fiddle Posty plays instead Of his pipes,
which are not IN much better condi-
ton than his velocipede and are re-
paired in a similar manner. extract
81 4ssckr l4frsz "a
would abstain from the baneflll Jacob
tie lifts he was so fond Of, but he
sometimes forgets or excuses himself
across the burn By crying, "She likes
them fine, and she is i'll to control
once she's off" It is pretty to hear
him in the cleaning, letting the songs
loose like pigeons #l
will now go and say goodnight TO
the Old Lady, for though It is barely
9 o'clock we keep early hours in the
snow. This is a moment owe 10 her
ingenuity. The Grand House, which ]
has, Of course, a stateiier name OF It's
own, is q steep climb from here, and is ,
at present inaccessible but 1t is Wis
ibIe, and at o'clock she shoots her I
blind up and down twice, and reply
with mine. Hers, am thankful TO {
say is red, or the lamp behind 1t has {
red shade, and this shooting Of the l
blinds is our way Of saying goodnight.
There is q warmth about it when the !
glen is so stin that I am thinking you I
could hear q whit-rit on the move
Sometimes stand by my window long I
after hers is dark, and I have felt that Z
night was waiting, as 1t must have done
1nce, for the first day. It Is the still =
hess that is so terrible. If only some (
hing would crackle the stiffness.
v. A STRANGER
Dec. 2l-For the first time since the 8
lien was locked, DR.. John threw in" ,
Is we say, this morning. He came =
traignt to the study, where he found 4
Is at family exercise. did not look =
lp from my knees, but ChristiIiy whis-
oered to me. BE Short which I =
iaresay made me IN consequence q =
title longer. Yet I knew she would
lot have taken such a liberty unless Il
here was something untoward with the 4,
nan, and though found when rose a
hat he was on his knees with US, I a
aw that he had gone TO sleep on them. :.
His face was so peaked that sent I,
hurriedly for the bottle OF -
randy that has lain IN the manse un- 8
orked since I came here six months 4
60 and as soon as he had partaken n
he hauled off his boots and rushed
i'm into the lobby to scrape him, for -
e was getting on to the carpet saw -
% wanted to be rid OF her before COM -
something by-ordinar to 4
ne, and he took the best way 70 effect =
his by saying In q sentence that he -
ad got through to Joanna Aainch and y
was girl and both were doing wells g
'hereupon Christi1Iy was of 70 CRY 81
he tidings across the burn. 81
He was nodding in his chair with ~
ltigle, so that It looked as II only -
y sudden jerks could he keep his head ~
!. but he brought out the words. ~
There Is more IN It than I told Christ
". have been TO the Smelling. but y.
did not get through In time. There 81
ere two lives saved In that hit holIge ~,