Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-11-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SMOOTH JOHN MACNAB." water, settling furstupon this side, then upon that. was Sunday, and he could not call while Gall was _____________ 'Every movement seemed directed by the great at the house. Selina consented to see him in her ! I candid fin, and every evolution was as the very room that evening. She knew that beloved her Many a story of the Macnabs lues been handed metry of motion. Even in repelling the hungry and would do her no wrong. down by tradition (says Chambers' s journal); but mit, and hungrier kelts there was a quiet dignity He, knew how she dreaded scandal, and swore the most characteristic is that which accounts for 11 his movements. Sometimes the wintry sun that there should be none, the peculiar device to be noticed on more than one el blaze up his burnished Bides as he rose to • • • • • • of their tombstones This is a severed bead; and rface for a moment, then he would drop That night Walter Timball was arrested beneath it was long, and probably still remains, the armorial down to his mate. He never seemed to , Simon Gall's drawing-room window, by which he cognizance of the elan. Every Highlander on ' day and night he never lost sight of hie I was on the point of forcing an entrance into the Loch Tayside knows the story-how the district for ma only when his mate was speared by a house. He was taken to the police station and ' years had been molested by a band of marauders the made off down stream, and did not charged with burglary. Selina said nothing when named Maeneish, who made their home on an Here is another actual incidenteon . her husband, with ugly triumph glistening in his island impassible of access in a loch among the a Upon one occasion a poacher eye, told her of the arrest. neighbouring mountains. At last one night, when run male salmon watching over a When the trial came off Selina was in the court- Macuidis sons were sitting round the fire discussing rof which he gaffed. Knowing room. Gall was with her, to witness her disgrace gloomily their ill success in apprehending the , -would soon take the place of the and his triumph, bandits, their father came in with the laconic she-fish to remain. Another Timbalt took his place at the her of justice. words, "The nicht's the nicht if the lads are the m a third, and a fourth, the "Guilty, or not guilty ?" questioned the court. lads!" To this the young men made no reply; but, sell time her lord was taken. Silence ensued. with the terribly "Smooth John" at their head, got brought back a large yellow Timbal! glanced about the court-room. For aup one after another and went out. In the grey of 'eat did the proceeding moment his eyes rested on Salinas pale, anxious the morniug they returned. The old chief was I were left unmolested, face, and Gall's glowing, gloating countenance, still sitting by the fire whin "Smooth John" ember of aliases, it is Then turning his face towards the judge, who re- placed thoMacneish's heal upon the table before dear to the dwellers Peated the question, he said- him, with the significant utterance, "The nicht's of the tiny stickle- "Guilty !" the nicht, amid the lads are the lads !" To effect -thwater fish. In Scandal had already caught the true situation, their purpose they had carried a boat from leech lightly turns to probably through the kind offices of Mr Jones, and Tay-all the way over the mountains-an almost levees in war. Timbers acknowledgment of the crime of burglary unparalleled feat; and crowing by this means to ' intense, and created a sensation, the island, heel surprised the marauders under the 'on, and his As Goal left the court-room he uttered • bitter effects of • convoy of liquor they had just secured. e brilliant cum, and spoke to his wife roughly. The only man still sensible, it is said, had been old 'kenod to She said nothing. She was too timid to proclaim Macneish himself, and when be saw strangers apnd the the truth, too proud to declare her guiltleasness, prottching en the island he began to shake with tuess, and too much agitated at the time, indeed, to frame fear. He called out to them, however, to know ems. a coherent reply. who they were. For answer he was asked whom 'in, But there was murder in her heart! he would be most afraid to see. "I would be afraid e for no man," be replied., "if it were not Smooth