You are a new man here and so I will excuse you the impudence of charging me with indifference to the well-being of my men." "You put wur-r-ds in my mouth, Mr.Maitland.A said nae sic thing," said McNish.

"But your foreman disna' know his place, and he must be changed." "'Must,' eh ?" The word had never been used to Mr.Maitland since his own father fifty years before had used it.

It was an unfortunate word for the success of the interview.

"'Must,' eh ?" repeated Mr.Maitland with rising wrath.

"I'd have you know, McNish, that the man doesn't live that says 'must' to me in regard to the men I choose to manage my business." "Then you refuse to remove yere foreman ?" "Most emphatically, I do," said Mr.Maitland with glints of fire in his blue eyes.
"Verra weel, so as we know yere answer.