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"You are haie, all is not well If all had been well, I had never been in

Pittenloch" She stopped her wheel and stood looking at hied at once into the story, which he had determined to tell her "I

had a quarrel with my father and I left ho I'ude fayther

to you?"

"Yes, very good He has given me love, education, travel, leisure, wealth,

s but one"

"Then, you be to call yoursel' a bad son I didna think it o' you, sir"

"But, Maggie, that one thing includes all my future life If I obey him, I

must always be ie, and she spoke in a low

restrained voice

"Yes, about ie, I

shall unite the two branches of our family, and take it back to its

ancient hoht to ask that ude

to you"

"I did not ask hi

been given ht to do as I desire with it"

"There is nane o' us, sir, hae the right to live for, or to, oursel's A