together. To be quite fair, for once in their lives, Trooper Tom and
Marmaduke were without guile when they decided to invite old Piper
Lauchie McDonald from Glenoro to come and play at the concert. They
were merely actuated by the pure motive of making the entertainment
more attractive than the Methodist gathering, with, perhaps, the
subconscious thought that it was a question if Old Tory Brown, who was
Scotch, even if he were a Methodist, could resist leaving a mere
preaching to hear a real Piper. The two were willing to bet almost
anything on the superior attractions of the music, Duke offering to put
up his wooden leg against Trooper's Mounted Police Medal.

Tremendous K. was not very enthusiastic when, with great diplomacy,
Marmaduke suggested the bagpipes as an addition to the programme. The
Hendersons were very rigid concerning certain worldly amusements, and a
Piper was always associated with dancing and kindred foolishness. When
it was made clear that Lauchie would draw a crowd, which a Piper always
did, he yielded, and Marmaduke and Trooper borrowed The Woman's car,
and whirled away up over the hills to Glenoro one evening and invited
Lauchie to play in Orchard Glen on the night of the big concert.

Christina had been faithfully attending all the practices. She was not
a real choir member, but Tremendous K. said he couldn't get up a
concert without at least one Lindsay in it, and she was the only one
available. For John could not sing, Mary had lost interest in
everything outside Port Stewart, and Ellen was too busy with the
trousseau to attend to anything else.

On the evening of the last rehearsal, as Christina went down the hill
with a crowd of her girl friends, Tilly met them in great excitement.

"Wallace Sutherland's come home," she announced, breathlessly. "The
Doctor met him in town with his car, and he's going to stay a week
before he goes back to college. Mrs. Sutherland told Mrs. Sinclair and
she told ma."

This was surely interesting news. Wallace Sutherland had not been in
Orchard Glen for any length of time, since he was a little boy and went
to the public school. He was attending a University over in the great
United States, and spent his holidays with the wealthy uncle who was
paying his college bills. Mrs. Sutherland often went to Boston to
visit him and her rich brother, but Wallace had spent very little time
in the old home. Folks said that his mother was afraid of his bec