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A QAIDEN FAIR.
bt cnARi.ru CIPRO.
As it was ne must eacapa iroin cue en
gagement, lie could not answer fur him
self If he fulfilled it.
As he was mechanically oeninK the gate
his arm was gratified by a friendly hand.
"Stop a minute, Mr. Iioss, I have boen
noticing that you are not well, can we do
anything far you?"
Not Wr:ll ! What a poor thing was it, then,
that the wreck of hope and future) should
come to be a mere qucslion of '-C:in we do
anything for you?'' So much medicine so
much fresh air ami lo, hojx! is restored and
the future is as bright as ever. That is tho
current mood and a happy one-but to the
homely nature of a man like Iloss it brousht
no balm. He had ventured his all in a single
boat and it had sunk.
He turned and saw Annie, the bright sym
pathetic eyes fell u;mui him. Like most men
deeply in love he was most shy of the bi-ing
be most loved. So he answered somewhat
ungraciously.
"That is true I am not wall ; but thank
yon for coming to say a kind word to me."
"I am very glad ti havo given you any
comfort I doubt you have been overtax
ing yourself to-day."
He rested on the gate. The sweet voice
was echoing in Lis br.iin and he listened.
Then speaking t ie voice he breathed the
name, "Annie.'
. She did not draw ;tvay from him. She
stood breathless.
"Will you let me sp.ak to you?" he said,
so quietly now that he could scarcely realize
himself that he had been for a moment In
dreamland.
"If it will do you any good, to be sure I
will," she answered with an endeavor to
speak quite frankly and easily; but the
voice faltered a little.
"Onythimr I like'."'
"Of course."
The permission granted ie appeared to
find difficulty in taking advantage of iu So
there was a pause, and the outcome of ft
was
"I'm a stupid gowk."
But ridiculous as the expression might be
to other ears they were not so to those of
Annie Murray, and she asked tremulously
"What for?"
"B -cause I care more for you than for
anybody or anything else, and I have been
aye feared to tell you. Now it is useless
t lling you."
He spoke almost fiercely as in the throes
of a strong man's atony; but with the evi
dent effort to restrain his passion.
"You are not to speak any more," 6he
said, drawing a long breath; "you are to
listen to me. You are young, and you can
go where you will lind friends to comfort
and c';eer you "
"So it is said of all men," he muttered.
"My father is an old man," she went on,
"and has only me as his constant friend and
companion. Well, can you think of it? I
said to myself long ago that I would never
leave him until he sent me away. Well,
t an you think of it? The only time that I
ever wished 1 might leave him was "
But there the blood came rushing to her
face and a startled expression appeared in
her eyes as if she had caught herself in the
commission of some crime, and she became
silent. She, who had been calm in the midst
of storm, trembled.
"Well?" he asked, surprised by her sud
den stop and looking into her face for an
explanation.
"Well," she said, softly an entire change
of tone and manner "there's nothing more
to say except that I am glad you are to be
the pilot of the Mermaid on her next trip."
He took her hand gently and for a mo
ment each looked into the others eyes.
Then
"Now it is my turn to ask you to listen to
me," he said slowly. "Whilst I was com
ing down the path, I made up my mind that
I would not go. You shall decide me. Is
Caririll going by your wish?"
"No."
"Do you wish me to go?"
"I do because father wishes it"
She added the latter words quickly, as If
fearing that he should raisundersttnd the
imiorc of her wish ; and again they looked
into each other's eyes in silence.
"Very well," he said, "I will go."
And then they said good-bye. The under
standing between them was complete, al
though no word of compact had been spoken.
She was to be faithful to her father, and lie
was to wait until the father spoke.
Wait I ay, he would wait all his life.
And he had no doubt that after this trip of
the Mermaid, a little conversation with
Captain Duncan would enable him to
arrange matters satisfactorily. With that
conviction he went merrily on his way.
ClIAPTER IV.
A Pt'TIFCL SON".
The original part of the village consists
of two rows of buildings forming a narrow
street. Tiie buildings have two flats; the
upper one is approached by a staircase with
a thick wooden railing outside the wall;and
the landings of these "outside stairs" form
the rostrums of the fish-wives from which
they harangue their gossips. Toles jut out
from windows carrying ropes to form a
triangle, and on these hang men and wo
men's clothes to dry. On the stairs are
broad-haunched women gossiping to others
below, on either side, or across the way.
Beneath the stairs are others preparing bait,
mending nets or clothes and also gossiping.
At the foot of one of these stairs is Dick:
Baxter. To him approaches a big lumpish
man, jauntily. He is dressed in the latest
fashion of tailordom, has a large signet ring
on the third finger of his left band, and car
ries a slim umbrella in his right, which
makes his own figure the more conspicuous.
He is evidently conscious that such a dandy
is out of his element in this placa. He Is
rendered still more conscious of it by the"
salution of Dick Baxter.
"Weel. Jeems, you are a erand sight, but
you might hae come sooner.f or your mither"s
in a great way ahout you."
"Thank you. Mister Baxter."
"That's as muekle as to say that I omjht
p-to call yon Mister CargilL," said Dick, pity
I ingly. ' Na, na, laddie, I canna do that I
I hae kent ye since you were a bairn running
barefoot here in the Kow, and you maun
just thole me savin? Jcems to the end."
Before Dick had finished his observation,
the gentleman had ascended the staircase
and entered the dwelling at the top. There
lie was saluted by an eldritch cry
"Ye hae come at last, ye deevil's buckie.
What's keepit ye? Wait or I get up and I'll
learn ye manners. Did I not say that ye
was to be here at twa o'clock and noo it's
four?"'
This came from an old woman who was
seated in an old-fashioned arm-chair. She
wore a high white "mutch," which rendered
her shrivelled features and shrunken eyes
the more marked; and the passion on the
face at this moment made it appear more
haggard than it naturally was.
I i ne i umpisn aanay was not at aii uisim o
I od. His mother. Bell Cargill, had been
: paralyzed in her lower limbs for ten yews
tm0; avna ajLaoufn arte) waa aj ways expect
injr to recover and making her arrangements I
for that event. It had not yet come to pass. 1
She was constantly telling her neighbors
what she would do when she "got up, and
they kindly humored her hope, and the hope
sustained her. She had been one of the
briskest and strongest of the fish-wives, and
by a singular business tact had been suc
cessful to a degree ai most beyond precedent
Although living in this poor dwelling, sur
rounded by her creels and fishing-tackle it
was her humor to have all the relics of her
trade about her 6he possessed a consider
able fortune, the result of her own energy
and industry. Bawbees had grown to shil
lings in her hands, and shillings to pounds.
Then, whilst she still carried her t-eel, she
had started a small iishshop in the High
Street, Edinburgh, and out of that had
grown two large fishmongery establisli
ments, one at the West End, and the other
iu the main thoroughfare leading to New
iugton. She had been careful In the selec
tion of her managers, and she had prosper
ed. She had once said but she never repeat
ed it that the only mistake she ever made
was in getting married; and the only good
her man had ever done her was in "deeing
une." But he had left her with a son as
useless as himself.
Notwithstanding all her prosperity, she
clung to the abode in which she had been
brought up, and out of which she had reap
ed everything. Her son, however, had dif
ferent ideas.
"You see, mother, I was detained by "
"Can ye not 8eak your native tongue,
you idiot? What's the use o' puttin' on
your fine airs wi' me?" cried BIl irately.
"I really thought that 1 was speaking my
native tongue as far as I knew it, mother;
but if there is any other form which will
please you better I shall be happy to adopt
it," he answered, taking a chair and seating
himself on it carefully, as if he feared that
it might break under him.
The old woman eyed him all over, and
the twinkling of her eyes showed that she
had a secret pleasure in his grand appear
ance, although she maintained her queru
lous manner.
"Weel, you hae a guid Scotch tongue in
your head if you would only inak, use o' it;
but you'll do naething usefu'. You just
spend, and spend, and spend."
"If you would allow me," he said in a lazy
way, "I am quite w illing to take the man
agement of the business "
"Catch me lettin' ye do that I gied ye a
tether o' three months, and if I had gi n ye
three mair there wouldna hae been ae pen
ny to clink agin anither left us."
"Very well," he said, shrugging his heavy
shoulders, "I am content. Only don't blame
me."
"Na blame you, ye lazy loon I Oh, wait
till I get up; and it'll na be langnoo or that
Na blame you ! If ye had been half a man
ye would hae been the greatest fishmerchant
in the kintry by this time."
"But I don't want to be a fish monger,"
he said as before, and folding his hands on
his paunch.
"Fish-merchant, I said, and malr shame
to ye! Isitna the grandest trade and the
bravest trade in the world? Can ye na think
o' what it means men's lives gien to feed
the livin'? And can ye na think what it has
been to you? -Wliaur would your bonnie
claes come frae and your rings, and your
watches, and your breast-pins if it badna
boen for the fish?"
"I am quite ready to make my acknowl
edgement to each particular fish if you'll
only tell me their names," he answered
coolly, as he re-adjusted a horseshoe pearl
breast-pin.
She was exasperated by his coolness and
made a movement as if she would rise, but
fell back on her chair with the old cry
"Wait till I get up and I'll set ye a bonnie
dance, my braw lad you that canna come
to see me ance in a month, cause ye're
shamed to he seen amangthe folks that ken
whaur your braw duds cam frae. But bide
ye. I'm gaun to hae the lawyer here and
I'll settle ye. And I'm gaun to hae Bob
Boss as a witness "
"Bob Ross!" muttered Cargill, for the
first time roused from his lethargy; "he's
etemahy turning up where he isn't wanted."
"Ay, it's like you to misca' folk that are
better than yourseF. He looks after them
that belanes to him whiles ye gang aff to
j our grand chambers in Edinbro' and Lon
don, and are feart folks should ken you got
your siller faire the puir auld fish-wife that
ye leave here."
His lethargic nature was not capable of
burning into a flame; but the spark which
she had thrown into it by the mention of
Bob Boss had stirred the embers into a
glow, and this last shaft elicited a spark.
"You know quite well, mother, I have
pressed you often enougii to leave this
place "
"Leave this place!" she crid angrily,
"where everything was won na likely."
"Very well. 1 don't try to force you, and
I don't think it is fair that you should grum
ble at me because you are here."
"It's because of you that I am here. But
wait till I get up and I'll settle ye."
"Well, well, let that be. I want to talk
to you about this arrangement with the
captain."
"Aj, ay," muttered the old woman with
greedy eyes, her whole manner to him sud
denly changing as if she were about to
make a bargain with him. "What aboot
that? What aboot that?"
"He has no objection to the match pro
vided we can show money enough to start
with, and he will settle everything upon his
daughter."
"That's capital," cried the old woman
gleefully and quite reconciled to her son,
forgiving in that moment all his extrava
gances. "But the lass what did the lass
say?"
"1 have not asked her yet"
Bell Cargill leaned back in her chair and
stared at her sou, gasping.
"Ye idiot do you no ken that was the
first thing ye should hae dune?"
"I shall have plenty of time for that" was
the placid answer. "Murray has got a cargo
for Peterhead and lam going with him;
and she will be there of course. But in any
, case she wou!d not say no when her father
said yes she is accustomed to trie worn ol
command."
The mother looked at her son admiringly,
a' most for the first time.
"Weel," she said, chuckling, "there's
some o' my bluid in ye after a'. That's just
fine. You'll hae her a' to yoursel', aud a
lad o' ony mettle can mak' a lass agree to
onything when that's the case, if he just
speaks pretty enough."
Old Dick Baxter put his head in at the
door.
"Here's Bob Ross noo. Bell. Do ye want
him to come up?" he said.
CHAPTER V.
MISCHIEF IX TIIE WIND.
Under ordinary circumstances Ross would
never have thought of waiting at the foot of
the stair until he learned whether or not
Bell wanted him. He would have walked
up and entered the room with no other cere
mony than the unnecessary question
"Are ve at tiaiue. mistrps-.?'
Uli uie present occasion, nowever,' rear
ing that her son was with her he shrank
back, and would have been glad to eaeape
from his promised visit altogether. Cargill
and he had never boen friendly, although
there was no open enmity between then.
But now he felt an almost nnconquersblev
dislike to meet the m in. At any rate Uwr
whs no need to piect him except when
necessary, aud that necessity was to arise
aoon enough.
Their relations to each other were now
clearly defined; they were both fighting for
the name prize the one with his money, the
other with his love. Cargill, the dandy ele
phant regarded Bob K ss, the pilot, with
contempt, that might easily develops into
hatreid If it had not already done so; Ros
regarded Mm with aim pie dislike and a de
sire to avoid him.
There could bt; no pleasant encounters be
tween two men holding such a iosition to
wards each other.
That was why Itoss sent Dick to ask if ho
were wanted, much to th surprise of Bell,
who was unaccustomed to such ceremonies.
"Cry to hi in to come up," was her quick
answer to Dick; "he could hae come him
sel' to speer."
Cargill for a moment hesitated whether
or not he should leave; but desirous of dis
covering what his mother had wanted with
Rons, decided to remain.
He nodded with lymphatic placidity to
the visitor as he entered.
"How are you to-day. Mistress Cargill?"
asked Ross he was the only one who call
ed her Mistress Cargill; to everybody else
about the place she was still Bell, or Bell
Cargill.
"Brawlys, brawlys, thank ye for sneering.
I'll sune be up and aboot noo. But I'm na
gaun to fash you this afternoon. Bob, nor
the lawyers either. I'm gaun to tak your
counsel, and let the thing he."
"I'm real glad to hear that, Mrs. Cargill.
You would have been sorry for it after
wards." "I'm na sure o' that yet llows'ever,
Jeems has done something at last; he's to
marry a las wi a tocher, and that's satis
feein' in a kind o' way. But when I get
bout mysel' I'll ken Ix-tter what to d ie.
For the time being there's na- need to fash
oursel's. I'm obleeged to you, a' the same,
and you were riht enough to say that he
would patisfee me yet."
"What is all this about, mother?" broke
in Cargill, who very much disliked being
called "Jeems" at all times, and especially
now.
"Never you heed, Jeems. You may thank
your frien' Bob, that you dklna ken a' aboot
it afore noo."
"1 am sure I urn extremely obliged to Mr.
Ross for any kindness he has been good
enough to do me, but "
"Will ye drap that ye fool, and speak
like an ord'nar body?" almost screamed
Bell.
"But I should like you to explain," he
went on stolidly.
"Then I'll na explain naething till I'm
up. You marry skipper Duncan's dochter,
and there'll be nae need to explain. What
are ye gaun to be after next. Bob?"
"1 am to take the MeruuiUl to IVterhead
next," was the quiet answer, but not with
out a secret feeling of satisfaction that he
could give this rub to Cargill.
It was more than a rub it was a blow.
Cargill's pluffy cheeks and small.protudlng,
dark eyes fish's eyes were incapable of
expression ; but they could show the signs
of biliousness, and at this moment they
looked very bilious. His voice, however,
expressed neither passion nor surprise as he
said
"Oh, you are to take the Mermaid on her
next trip?"
"Ay, I believe so. But 1 have to go now,
mistress, as you are na needing inc. Good
day, mistress good day, Mr. Cargill."
Glad to escape, he sprang down the stair.
But he had not gone many stei.s when he
heard a plethoric voice behind him.
"I want to speak to you. Boss?"'
It was Cargill who had followed him in
stantly. "I'm in rather a hurry, Mr. Cargill, as I
ought to have been home two bonis ago."
"1 can walk with you. Thu mailer is one
of great importance to you."
"What Is it?" inquired Boss, slackening
his pace, so that the other might with more
ease and dignity keep up with him.
"That is to say, I think it of great import
ance to you; possibly you may think other
wise." "What Is 't?"
T have a friend who is the head of a firm
of shipowners, and he told me that they are
in want Of a men who should be himself a
pilot to take general charge of all the ar
rangements with the pilots for tlieir ships.
He wouid have a permanent engagement at
a good salar), and it struck me that you
were the very nian for the post."
! might be," was the reply with a sub
dued smile, which Cargill did not observe.
"You would be. Why should you waste
your time in such ferry-boats as the Mer
maid when you have such a chance as this?
For you have only to say the word and I cun
almost promise that you shall be the man
chosen."
"And when would I be wanted?"
"Well, as I understand, you would have
to be at the office in two or three days."
"I doubt it cannot come my way."
"Why not?"
"Because I have to go with the Mer
maid." "Oh, you can easily get out of that en
gagement I will undertake to arrange it
for you."
"Thank you, but I promised to go and I
am going. Moreover, I like to manage my
own business."
"Then you refuse?"
"I am not clear that that there is anything
to refuse except to break my word, and I do
refuse to do that"
"Oh, very well," said Cargill loftily, "a
you please. I thought to render you a ser
vice, and 1 can assure you such a chance is
not likely to fall in your way again."
"Then I must just try V) do what is in my
power to get on without it."
Ross gave a parting nod and went oil
Cargill halted abruptly and stood looking
after him as long as he was in sight.
What was the man thinking about? The
drooping of the heavy brows over the small
dark eyes suggested that his thoughts were
unpleasant ones. He had tried a harmless
expedient for preventing Boss going with
the Mermaid and had failed. He believed
that he could have secured for him the eti
grgement he had spoken about, but he had
somewhat metamorphosed Its real nature In
order to suit his purpose. Well, there were
other ways of keeping him out of the Mer
maid, at least for this trip.
He would see old Murray (that was the
irreverent way in which he thought of the
great Captain Duncan I), and get him to
cancel the engagement. Yes, he would see
him before the night was out What a fool
the old skipper must be cot to see that this
fellow was after his money and his daugh
ter! But he would see him put that little mat
ter right. After all, it was the easiest way,
aud he had been only wasting time in try
ing another.
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