shirts.
“I think I could bring that madman of mine to his senses,” Macaulay’s wife said to the clerk one day.
“The sooner the better, then,” said Macdonald, “for there’s much to do before the rent collection.” He spoke as if his master were only out upon a drinking-bout.
“If I just had him here for ten minutes!” said Mrs Macaulay.
“You might – you might venture to go to Kincreggan and see him,” suggested the clerk.
“I have more regard for my life,” said the woman. “I’m ower much of the Lowlander to trust myself in a den with a mad Highlander – even if he’s my own man. Forbye” (here she smiled), “forbye, I’ve tried it already. I have been twice at Kincreggan in the early morning, and he kept me fifty yards off the walls with his gun. But I would not care to have that mentioned in the place; it’s perhaps as little to my credit as to his own. Oh, if I had him under this roof again for ten minutes, or could get a certain thing delivered in his hands – ” She broke off, and looked into Macdonald’s face quickly as with an inspiration.
“What is it?” asked the clerk.
“A little packet,” she replied; “just a small packet you could carry in your hand.”
“Buidseachas – I mean witchcraft?” said Macdonald, who had brought a good many superstitions from Moidart.
“Well, well – in a way, a sort of witchcraft,” she admitted, with a smile. “It is part of a charm that wiles men from their wild ways.”
“I don’t know but what I might risk taking it to him, then,” said Macdonald, and so it happened that that very evening he found himself challenged fifty yards from the wall of Kincreggan, with a pair of slippers wrapped carefully in paper in his hands – nothing more.
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