27/38 It's the Glesca body Dobson telled us to look for yesterday. We'll tie him up in the wud till we've time to attend to him." "Is he bad ?" "It doesna maitter," said the one called Ecky. "He'll be deid onyway long afore the morn." Mrs.Morran all forenoon was in a state of un-Sabbatical disquiet. The invalid in the bed in the parlour was not a repaying subject. Cousin Eugenie belonged to that type of elderly women who, having been spoiled in youth, find the rest of life fall far short of their expectations. |