The latter was a young keeper I had here aboot a year syne.

He cam' tae me ae mornin' an' said that while lyin' up for poachers the nicht afore, he distinc'ly h'ard the Whispers.

Kennin' what folk say aboot the owerhearin' o' them bein' fatal, I lauched at 'im an' told 'im no' to tak' ony tent o' auld wives' gossip.

But, miss, sure enough, within a week he got blood-pizinin', an', though they took 'im to the hospital in Perth, he deed." "Then popular superstition points to the fact that anyone who accidentally acts as eavesdropper is doomed to death, eh?
A very nice outlook for me!" she remarked.
"Oh, Miss Gabrielle!" exclaimed the man, greatly concerned, "dinna treat the maitter lichtly, I beg o' ye.

I did, wi' puir Menteith, an' he deed juist like the ithers." "But what does it all mean ?" asked the daughter of the house in a calm, matter-of-fact voice.