you five hundred pounds for your wedding
journey.--Poor Davie!"

"Your lordship insults me."

"Then, damn you! be off to your lessons, and take your insolent face
out of my sight."

"If I remain in your house, my lord, it is for Davie's sake."

"Go away," said the earl; and Donal went.

He had hardly closed the door behind him, when he heard a bell ring
violently; and ere he reached the bottom of the stair, he met the
butler panting up as fast as his short legs and red nose would permit.
He would have stopped to question Donal, who hastened past him, and in
the refuge of his own room, sat down to think. Had his conventional
dignity been with him a matter of importance, he would have left the
castle the moment he got his things together; but he thought much more
of Davie, and much more of Eppy.

He had hardly seated himself when he jumped up again: he must see
Andrew Comin!

CHAPTER XXXVI.

A NIGHT-WATCH.

When he reached the bottom of the hill, there at the gate was Forgue,
walking up and down, apparently waiting for him. He would have passed
him, but Forgue stepped in front of him.

"Grant," he said, "it is well we should understand each other!"

"I think, my lord, if you do not yet understand me, it can scarcely be
my fault."

"What did my father say?"

"I would deliver to your lordship a message he gave me for you but for
two reasons--one, that I believe he changed his mind though he did not
precisely say so, and the other, that I will not serve him or you in
the matter."

"Then you intend neither to meddle nor make?"

"That is my affair, my lord. I will not take your lordship into my
confidence."

"Don't be unreasonable, now! Do get off your high horse. Can't you
understand a fellow? Everybody can't keep his temper as you do! I mean
the girl no harm."

"I will not talk with you about her. And whatever you insist on saying
to me, I will use against you without scruple, should occasion offer."

As he spoke he caught a look on Forgue's face which revealed somehow
that it was not for him he had been waiting, but for Eppy. He turned
and went back towards the castle: he might meet her! Forgue called
after him, but he paid no heed.

As he hastened up the hill, not so much as the rustle of bird or mouse
did he hear. He lingered about the top of the road for half an hour,
then turned and went to the cobbler's.

He found Doory in great distress; for she was not merely sore troubled
about he