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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chapter thirty, the final chapter good Bye. As far as
I was concerned myself, I had come to port, but
I still had Allan to whom I was so much
beholden on my hands, and I felt besides a heavy
charge in the matter of the murder and James of
the Glens, on both these heads. I unbosomed to Rankeiler
(00:23):
the next morning, walking to and fro about six of
o'clock before the House of Shaws, and with nothing in
view but the fields and woods that had been my
ancestors and were now mine. Even as I spoke on
these grave subjects, my eye would take a glad bit
of a run over the prospect, and my heart jump
with pride about my clear duty to my friend. The
(00:46):
lawyer had no doubt I must help him out of
the county at whatever risk. But in the case of James,
he was of a different mind. Mister Thompson says he
is one thing, mister Thompson's kinsman quite another. I know
little of the facts, but I gather that a great
noble whom we will call if you like, the d
(01:09):
of A, has some concern and is even supposed to
feel some animosity in the matter. The d of a
is doubtless an excellent nobleman. But mister David timio Key,
no kuere dios. If you interfere to balk his vengeance.
You should remember there is one way to shut your
(01:29):
testimony out, and that is to put you in the dock.
There you would be in the same pickle as mister
Thompson's kinsman. You will object that you are innocent, will,
but so is he, And to be tried for your
life before a highland jury, on a highland quarrel, and
with a highland judge upon the bench, would be a
brief transition to the gallows. Now I had made all
(01:54):
these reasonings before and found no very good reply to them,
so I put on all the simplicity I can could.
In that case, Sir said I, I would just have
to be hanged, would I not? My dear boy, cries he.
Go in God's name and do what you think is right.
It is a poor thought that at my time of
(02:15):
life I should be advising you to choose the safe
and shameful. And I take it back with an apology.
Go and do your duty and be hanged if you must,
like a gentleman, There are worse things in the world
than to be hanged. Not many, sir, said I smiling.
Why yes, sir, he cried, very many. It would be
(02:39):
ten times better for your uncle to go no farther
afield if he were dangling decently upon a gibbet. Thereupon
he turned into the house, still in a great fervor
of mind, so that I saw I had pleased him heartily,
And there he wrote me two letters, making his comments
on them as he wrote, this says he is to
(03:01):
my banker's the British Lidding Company, placing a credit to
your name. Consult mister Thomas. He will know of ways,
and you, with this credit, can supply the means. I
trust you will be a good husband of your money.
But in the affair of a friend like mister Thompson,
I would be even prodigal. Then for his kinsman. There
(03:22):
is no better way than that you should seek the Advocate,
tell him your tale and offer testimony. Whether he may
take it or not is quite another matter, and will
turn on the d of a Now that you may
reach the Lord Advocate well recommended I give you here
a letter to a namesake of your own, the learned
mister Balfour of Pilrig, a man whom I esteem. It
(03:46):
will look better that you should be presented by one
of your own name. And the Lord of Pilrig is
much look up to in the faculty, and stands well
with Lord Advocate Grant. I would not trouble him if
I with any particulars, And to you, no, I think
it would be needless to refer to mister Thompson. Form
(04:09):
yourself upon the lard. He is a good model. When
you deal with the Advocate, be discreet, and in all
these matters, may the Lord guide you, mister David. Thereupon
he took his farewell and set out with torrents for
the ferry, while Allan and I turned our faces for
the city of Edinburgh. As we went by the footpath
(04:29):
and beside the gate posts and the unfinished lodge, we
kept looking back at the house of my father's. It
stood there, bare and great and smokeless, like a place
not lived in. Only in one of the top windows
there was the peak of a nightcap, bobbing up and
down and back and forward, like the head of a
rabbit from a borough. I had little welcome when I came,
(04:53):
and less kindness while I stayed, but at least I
was watched as I went away. Allan and I went
slowly forward upon our way, having little heart either to
walk or speak. The same thought was uppermost in both,
that we were near the time of our parting, and
remembrance of all the by gone days sat upon us sorely.
(05:16):
We talked, indeed, of what should be done, and it
was resolved that Allan should keep to the county, biding
now here now there, but coming once in the day
to a particular place, where I might be able to
communicate with him, either in my own person or by messenger.
In the meanwhile, I was to seek out a lawyer
who was an appen Stuart, and a man therefore to
(05:38):
be wholly trusted, and it should be his part to
find a ship and to arrange for Allan's safe embarkation.
No sooner was this business done than the words seemed
to leave us. And though I would seek the jest
with Allan under the name of mister Thompson, and he
with me on my new clothes and my estate, you
could feel very well that we were nearer tiers. Then
(06:00):
laughter we came the bye way over the hill of Corstorphine,
and when we got near to the place called rest
and be thankful, and looked down on Corstorphine Boggs, and
over to the city and the castle on the hill.
We both stopped, for we both knew, without a word,
said that we had come to wear our ways parted.
(06:21):
Here he repeated to me once again what had been
agreed upon between us, the address of the lawyer, the
daily hour at which Alan might be found, and the
signals that were to be made by any that came
seeking him. Then I gave what money I had, a
guinea or two of Rangkeuiler's, so that he should not
starve in the meanwhile. And then we stood a space
(06:43):
and looked over at Edinburgh in silence. Well goodbye, said Alan,
and held out his left hand. Good Bye, said I,
and gave the hand a little grasp, and went off downhill.
Neither t one of us looked the other in the face,
nor so long as he was in my view, did
(07:04):
I take one back glance at the friend I was leaving.
But as I went on my way to the city,
I felt so lost and lonesome that I could have
found it in my heart to sit down by the
dike and cry and weep. Like any baby. It was
coming near noon when I passed in by the West
Kirk and the grass Market, into the streets of the capital.
(07:26):
The huge height of the buildings running up to ten
in fifteen stories, the narrow arched entries that continually vomited passengers,
the wares of the merchants in their windows, the hubub
and endless stir, the foul smells, and the fine clothes,
and a hundred other particulars too small to mansion struck
(07:46):
me into a kind of stupor of surprise, so that
I let the crowd carry me to and fro. And
yet all the time what I was thinking of was
allan at rest and be thankful. And all the time,
although you would think I would not choose but be
delighted with these bras and novelties, there was a cold
gnawing in my inside, like a remorse for something wrong.
(08:11):
The hand of providence brought me, in my drifting to
the very doors of the British Linen Company's bank. End
of chapter and of book
Chapter thirty, the final chapter good Bye. As far as
I was concerned myself, I had come to port, but
I still had Allan to whom I was so much
beholden on my hands, and I felt besides a heavy
charge in the matter of the murder and James of
the Glens, on both these heads. I unbosomed to Rankeiler
(00:23):
the next morning, walking to and fro about six of
o'clock before the House of Shaws, and with nothing in
view but the fields and woods that had been my
ancestors and were now mine. Even as I spoke on
these grave subjects, my eye would take a glad bit
of a run over the prospect, and my heart jump
with pride about my clear duty to my friend. The
(00:46):
lawyer had no doubt I must help him out of
the county at whatever risk. But in the case of James,
he was of a different mind. Mister Thompson says he
is one thing, mister Thompson's kinsman quite another. I know
little of the facts, but I gather that a great
noble whom we will call if you like, the d
(01:09):
of A, has some concern and is even supposed to
feel some animosity in the matter. The d of a
is doubtless an excellent nobleman. But mister David timio Key,
no kuere dios. If you interfere to balk his vengeance.
You should remember there is one way to shut your
(01:29):
testimony out, and that is to put you in the dock.
There you would be in the same pickle as mister
Thompson's kinsman. You will object that you are innocent, will,
but so is he, And to be tried for your
life before a highland jury, on a highland quarrel, and
with a highland judge upon the bench, would be a
brief transition to the gallows. Now I had made all
(01:54):
these reasonings before and found no very good reply to them,
so I put on all the simplicity I can could.
In that case, Sir said I, I would just have
to be hanged, would I not? My dear boy, cries he.
Go in God's name and do what you think is right.
It is a poor thought that at my time of
(02:15):
life I should be advising you to choose the safe
and shameful. And I take it back with an apology.
Go and do your duty and be hanged if you must,
like a gentleman, There are worse things in the world
than to be hanged. Not many, sir, said I smiling.
Why yes, sir, he cried, very many. It would be
(02:39):
ten times better for your uncle to go no farther
afield if he were dangling decently upon a gibbet. Thereupon
he turned into the house, still in a great fervor
of mind, so that I saw I had pleased him heartily,
And there he wrote me two letters, making his comments
on them as he wrote, this says he is to
(03:01):
my banker's the British Lidding Company, placing a credit to
your name. Consult mister Thomas. He will know of ways,
and you, with this credit, can supply the means. I
trust you will be a good husband of your money.
But in the affair of a friend like mister Thompson,
I would be even prodigal. Then for his kinsman. There
(03:22):
is no better way than that you should seek the Advocate,
tell him your tale and offer testimony. Whether he may
take it or not is quite another matter, and will
turn on the d of a Now that you may
reach the Lord Advocate well recommended I give you here
a letter to a namesake of your own, the learned
mister Balfour of Pilrig, a man whom I esteem. It
(03:46):
will look better that you should be presented by one
of your own name. And the Lord of Pilrig is
much look up to in the faculty, and stands well
with Lord Advocate Grant. I would not trouble him if
I with any particulars, And to you, no, I think
it would be needless to refer to mister Thompson. Form
(04:09):
yourself upon the lard. He is a good model. When
you deal with the Advocate, be discreet, and in all
these matters, may the Lord guide you, mister David. Thereupon
he took his farewell and set out with torrents for
the ferry, while Allan and I turned our faces for
the city of Edinburgh. As we went by the footpath
(04:29):
and beside the gate posts and the unfinished lodge, we
kept looking back at the house of my father's. It
stood there, bare and great and smokeless, like a place
not lived in. Only in one of the top windows
there was the peak of a nightcap, bobbing up and
down and back and forward, like the head of a
rabbit from a borough. I had little welcome when I came,
(04:53):
and less kindness while I stayed, but at least I
was watched as I went away. Allan and I went
slowly forward upon our way, having little heart either to
walk or speak. The same thought was uppermost in both,
that we were near the time of our parting, and
remembrance of all the by gone days sat upon us sorely.
(05:16):
We talked, indeed, of what should be done, and it
was resolved that Allan should keep to the county, biding
now here now there, but coming once in the day
to a particular place, where I might be able to
communicate with him, either in my own person or by messenger.
In the meanwhile, I was to seek out a lawyer
who was an appen Stuart, and a man therefore to
(05:38):
be wholly trusted, and it should be his part to
find a ship and to arrange for Allan's safe embarkation.
No sooner was this business done than the words seemed
to leave us. And though I would seek the jest
with Allan under the name of mister Thompson, and he
with me on my new clothes and my estate, you
could feel very well that we were nearer tiers. Then
(06:00):
laughter we came the bye way over the hill of Corstorphine,
and when we got near to the place called rest
and be thankful, and looked down on Corstorphine Boggs, and
over to the city and the castle on the hill.
We both stopped, for we both knew, without a word,
said that we had come to wear our ways parted.
(06:21):
Here he repeated to me once again what had been
agreed upon between us, the address of the lawyer, the
daily hour at which Alan might be found, and the
signals that were to be made by any that came
seeking him. Then I gave what money I had, a
guinea or two of Rangkeuiler's, so that he should not
starve in the meanwhile. And then we stood a space
(06:43):
and looked over at Edinburgh in silence. Well goodbye, said Alan,
and held out his left hand. Good Bye, said I,
and gave the hand a little grasp, and went off downhill.
Neither t one of us looked the other in the face,
nor so long as he was in my view, did
(07:04):
I take one back glance at the friend I was leaving.
But as I went on my way to the city,
I felt so lost and lonesome that I could have
found it in my heart to sit down by the
dike and cry and weep. Like any baby. It was
coming near noon when I passed in by the West
Kirk and the grass Market, into the streets of the capital.
(07:26):
The huge height of the buildings running up to ten
in fifteen stories, the narrow arched entries that continually vomited passengers,
the wares of the merchants in their windows, the hubub
and endless stir, the foul smells, and the fine clothes,
and a hundred other particulars too small to mansion struck
(07:46):
me into a kind of stupor of surprise, so that
I let the crowd carry me to and fro. And
yet all the time what I was thinking of was
allan at rest and be thankful. And all the time,
although you would think I would not choose but be
delighted with these bras and novelties, there was a cold
gnawing in my inside, like a remorse for something wrong.
(08:11):
The hand of providence brought me, in my drifting to
the very doors of the British Linen Company's bank. End
of chapter and of book
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