kilts for trousers. At the evening hour she gathered the children to her with an increased tenderness. Natalie, plump and still rosy, sat in her lap; Shenton, a mere wisp of a boy, hi

e a line of hills. Suddenly that line became a line of night. Black night seized upon all the earth; but beyond there arose into the heavens a light that was more glorious than the light of day. A long sea of gold seemed t

y fingers outspread, and squinted between

what's

ked up expectantly into her face, but she was not looki

ay? That's our world, so dark, so full of ruts, so ugly; but it is the rough plain we all must travel to reach th

ked Lewis, pointing to

isla

castle and smoke and trees?" continued Le

," said

u're littlest. You must sail to that littlest one 'w

ook her he

l to the big

ing down at his motionless head. Shenton did not ans

Natalie gently from her lap, and

my, childre

golden sea was gone. There was a last glimmer of amber in the heavens, but it faded suddenly, as

y into the house. She stoppe

here?" she calle

a chair scraping back.

n's face to her burden,

?" he

d. What is it, Orme? Dr. MacDonald m

re bedroom. He laid him down. Shenton's head fell limply to one side up

voice was soon h

felt his pulse, undid his waist, listened to his heart and lungs. The doctor shook his head and frowned

r. His shrewd eyes darted from b

will awake anon." The doctor arose, and stretched his arms. "Eh, but I've had a

as though fr

mered. "I'm sorry. We ha

a drop o

ook he

y? Weel, weel, I must be gaeing." And without a look at Ann's risi

me fixed his ey

im. Send him to my study." Ann nodded. As the do

eated, his nervous hands gripping the arms of his chair. On the desk b

tell me each thing y

s a slig

o-day," answered Shenton, his

Leighton, tensely, "I am going t

h which he was groping for the cane stopped, poised in air. In those eyes there was something that no man could thrash. Scorn, anguish, pride, the knowledge of ages, gaz

my boy!" gro

cry of a bursting heart, and hur