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"And Maggie? Is she near by? At home? Where is she?"

"There is nane ken that, sir"

"What do you one away! Where to?"

"'Deed, sir, I'd be fain to ken where to--but I hae the house for the care

o' things; and David Proie's name in

at a' Elder

Mackelvine kens a' that anybody kens, and when you hae had a drap o' tea,

you can ask hi at once to Mackelvine's"

"I'll be to get your room ready, sir; and put a bit o' fire in it, and the

like o' that?"

"Yes, I shall coet into the

fresh air Maggie gone! He could hardly believe the words he had heard

Sorrow, anxiety, keen disappointment, amazement, possessed him; but even

in those

thought of Maggie Elder Mackelvine's cottage was quite at the other end

of the village, and he alking rapidly down the shingle toward it,

when he met Willie Johnson