fellow-creetur. Na, na, sir! Juist ye sit still, and Maggie Jean'll
redd up the bed for ye beyont for y'r nicht's rest!"

So in the smuggler's very house the smuggler's natural enemy was bound
to rest for the night, having been warmed at the smuggler's hearth and
cheered and invigorated by whiskey that had paid no duty!

It was with changed mien that Bonar trod his downward path next morning
under Peter's guidance.

Be sure he lost no time in applying for removal to a new sphere of
labor! Let others tackle Davie Forbes and his sons if they wished; as
for himself, he could never so repay the fearless generosity to which
he owed--as he firmly believed--the saving of his life!




VIII

PHENOMENA


"This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him."
(_"Hamlet" Act I, Sc. 1._)


Strolling across the little stableyard one day to have a look at Tim, our
pony, I heard from the open door of the kitchen Penny's voice, raised in
expostulation.