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"'Brave Derater he is dead;

From his fair body they took the head:

But Mackintosh and his friends are fled,

And they'll set the hat upon another head'"-chanted the Fair View storekeeper, and looked aside at Mistress Truelove

Taberer, spinning in the doorway of her father's house

Truelove answered naught, but her hands went to and fro, and her eyes were

for her work, not for MacLean, sitting on the doorstep at her feet

"'And whether they're gone beyond the sea'"-The exile broke off and sighed heavily Before the two a little yard, all

gay with hollyhocks and roses, sloped down to the wider of the two creeks

bethich stretched the Fair View plantation It was late of a holiday

afternoon A stor

above the sweep of woods ray cloud There h came back to him faintly, as became an

echo

"Is there not peace here, 'beyond the sea'?" said Truelove softly "Thine

hlander looked at her with kindling eyes "Now had I the harp of

old Murdoch!" he said

"'Dear is that land to the east,