It was with no small difficulty that the minister's wife could keep her little boy quiet in the back seat, so full of pride and joy was he at the appearance of his hero; but after the service was over, Hughie could be no longer restrained.

Pushing his way eagerly through the crowd, he seized upon Ranald and dragged him to his mother.
"Here he is, mother!" he exclaimed, to Ranald's great confusion, and to the amusement of all about him.

"Isn't he splendid ?" And as Ranald greeted Mrs.Murray with quiet, grave courtesy, she felt that his winter in the woods and on the river had forever put behind him his boyhood, and that henceforth he would take his place among the men.
And looking at his strong, composed, grave face, she felt that that place ought not to be an unworthy one..