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AT LOVE'S COMMAND By JOHN A. STEUAET, [Copyright, 1883. by John Alexander Steuart! "Donald Gordon has done many things that"he ought to have left undone," he said, with a quiver In his voice. "But there is one thing he has never done-he has never broken his word. Thaf has always been ' better than "his bond. I and my wife will go with you to Scotland as scon as some neces sary business is transacted here. I never intended to set foot in the old country again. But heaven has its own way of upsetting tho designs Of man. I am happy enough to do anything." "I wish I could fly to The Elms," I said, "and let them know." ""We'll sail, Kilgour; we'll sail," he laugh ed. "That'll be quick enough. And now for the preparations." Ho turned away abruptly, and I knew there was a lump in the throat of the war rior who had been thought a devil, and in deed my own was strangely tight, while as for Ranee, being a woman in spite of her country and color, she was fairly weeping with downright gladness. So to keep our selves in heart I took the liberty, greatly to the astonishment of Donald's chief butler, of serving with my own hand some of the best sherbet all round. A little later I broke the news to Tabal. "I am going away, Tabal," I said; "far away to my own country, and the desert and tho black tent will know me no more forever." "Cannot Tabal go with thee?" he pleaded quickly. "That can scarcely be, good Tabal," I answered. "It will be better for thee to re turn to Marabel with the caravan." "I will not return unies? thou drive me away," he replied stubbornly. "Hast thou not saved my life, and where thou goest will I not go to serve thee ? Thou wilt take thy little Fatima Let me go, I pray thee, to care for her." "Take the honest fellow with you, Kil gour," called ont Gordon, who happened to hear us. "I will be at the cost of him, and . he will look after my rogue Mahomet. Be sides, Hassan" (the great black warhorse) "ia going to keep your little mare com pany." "Be it as thou sayest then, Tabal," I said, and the poor fellow leaped for joy. Three weeks later we embarked at Yedda with all our belongings, Yumen Yusel, the shereef of Mecca and a brilliant company of sheiks and great men doing us final honor. _ CHAPTER XXYL HOME AND VICTORT. So once more we are among loved and familiar scenes, the torrid sands are left behind, and we are back to the scented heather and the fellowship of friends. That ' ome coming was such as had never been known ia the sedate valley that in cludes Kilgour and the Elms. Old people talk of it yet by the chimney cheek in win ter nights, and the young listen with open mouths and wide eyes to the wondrous tale of the sudden appearance one quiet evening O? a company of outlandish folk with the jargon and garb of heathendom. I wish some of these people were now at hand to describe what they saw and thus save me much trouble, for I have come to a point that seems to touch me more closely in my tenderest part and to make it more difficult to write than anything that went before. But I will briefly relate what remains cf this extraordinary history and endeavor to be lucid. In his wanderings in the east Donald had imbibed high notions of pageantry and the picturesque, and so he insisted we ahould go home in the best style at our command-that is to say, in full oriental costume and a special carriage. "It will be a free sight for the natives," he said. "It isn't every day that Arabs of our standing arrive in Scotland." Accordingly on reaching Perth we in voked the aid of my old friend of the "Hound and Stag," who procured for us at a cost that, in his own words, was "perfeck ly awfae," the best barouche and tho fast est pair in the city. j To make the more imposing show Tabal and Mahomet were to ride behind on Fa tima and Hassan, accoutered in Arab fash ion, with a spear and half a dozen daders apiece. Very glad they were to get into the saddle again, both to stretch their mus cles according to wont and to display their horsemanship. The horses also whinnied with delight at the touch of the familiar girths, and when mounted danced a jig un known to the sober steeds of these isles. The town gathered to witness the specta cle of our departure, and it afterward leak ed out that the provost and council were at the moment excitedly considering the ques tion of entertaining the Indian nabobs who had so unexpectedly honored their city. But we were off before the good men could decide, with half the population at our heels, ns if we exercised the charm of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. And the mighty sensation of tho starting was continued all along our route. People rushed gaping from houses and fields to get a glimpse of ns at close quarters, and those whom we met generally turned and followed us as long as they had breath. Some saluted us as if we were foreign potentates, others stared as if they had been turned into stone, and yet others, by their looks, seemed to apprehend an invasion. When we swept through our little village, there was the commotion that an earth quake or tho descent of an armed band of robbers might have caused. Fain would I have stopped to make myself known to the villagers and see theirastcnishment, butat that stage we could net bear to tarry. Two miles ahead was Kilgoui a jd p. little beyond was the Elms. So we sped on without draw ing rein, our hearts beating short sud fast, with the expectation which the returning exile alone knows. The carriage horses were lathered and blowing after their 40 miles, though Fatima and Hassan, with more trying work, did not show a wet hair. But no consideration for blown horses could have induced us to delay. The coachman, rathar against his will, whipped up, and in stead of slackening the pace increased. As we rolled, bumping and shaking, over the mountain road in tho midst of many whirling thoughts, suddenly old Duncan's parting words flashed upon me. "God bless ye, take it. It will be tho sil ler pipes I learned ye toblawon. Ayonc the seas ye'll can gio a skirl nt times to mind ye of old friends, and when ye come back ye'll can march to your own quick step." Why shouldn't I? In less time than it takes me to write this sentence the silver pipes were out of the green bag. "You shall be played home like a hero, Gordon!" I cried, leaping upon the dickey to the great discomfort of the coachman, ?.?ho was evidently unable to make up his ?nind whether we were great folks or sim ply maniacs. The scream of the pipes made the horses Almost as wild as I was myself. , "I canna baud them!" yelled the coach man, laying his weight on the reins. "I'll nevei win back to Perth safe. Woa! Woa! They're off, sure. May I be burned alive if I ever take a trip like this again. Woa, Dandy! Woa, Meg! Ah, ye Ummer, tak ing the bit atween your teeth! If I smash this kerridge, I may just go and hang my Bel'." "Let them out, you fool," I said breath lessly. Tho speed was glorious to me. They could not go too fast. Another mile -ono short mile, but it was too much to think of. I blew as I had never blown but once be fore, and that was when I thought I waa playing a ranting air as my own dirgo. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" was now my tune, and tho birds flew In terror from the rocks at the mad excito* ment of the strain. Another half mile two or three minutes n.ore. Couldn't the ass of a coachman use his whip? Then ali at once the chimney tops of Kilgour roee amid the dusky heath ?us I had seen them rise when last I returned from Edinburgh, and I almost dropped. "There it is, Gordon!" I screamed, pointing to the right. "Don't you see it standing alone there? All the chimney.? are smok ing. They must have company." And settling down to work again I played fiercer and fiercer, and Ranee stuffed her ears, and Donald encouraged me, /ind thc coachman, hanging on the rein?, swore wo should bu headlong over a precipice, but tho speed was not checked. A quarter of a mile more, and I saw a man in a field near the house. He stood looking toward us, shading his eyes with his hands. He gazed thus for oerhans half a minute; then suddenly turning be n off as if be were pursued by the enea mankind. It was Duncan. I sUoutt him, I waved his own pipes and but foi pace would have leaped down and run ; him. Compelled to keep my seat, I sti up again faster and fiercer and more cordantly than any piper blew since r. were invented by Adam. Tho girls will sing, and thc boys will shoat And the ladies they will all turn out, And wo'll all feel gay when Johnny c< marching home. At last we were off the county road into the avenue-the avenue to Eil' House. I was blind and dizzy and tracted. I played, but heaven alone kn what the tune was or how many tunes ^ hashed up together. Up we went at a lop, the barouche bounding like a ball \v it struck a stone, the horsey dripping, driver like a ghost. Duncan had reac the house and given the alarm, and pe? were hurriedly gathering on the la Heavens above! There wero my moi and Isabel and Sir Thomas Gordon and father! I made a heartrending effort to strike "The Highland Laddie." Thete wa noise, but no tune. Finding myself h less as a musician, I got to my feet whirled the pipes about my head ic r exultation. Donald, too, unable any lor to resist, rose, and snatching off his tur waved also. Bruce charged down upon every bristle on his back erect, and tl on the lawn looked ns if they would fly. Two hundred y; rds more to go! Co the horses not mend their snail's pr Bending forward, I struck at them with pipes, and they gave a leap that ne? broke the harness. "Od, it's weelwo're so near the end!" E the coachman, "I'm no used to this." I threatened to fling him from his ri and out went the lash in stinging coi1 ?t made tho frantic horses spring afvesh, could have gone faster than the; did. i beside my crazy turmol) of r!ud their citement was tranquillity itself. All experiences I had gone through were nothing to the sensations of that mom of transport and agony. We dashed through a gate and roun curve. Then all at once the horses were their haunches, as, without asking co^'liman's leave, I threw myself on reins. Before the wheels had stopped were on the ground, and those who I been watching our desperate approach, p as death and crying with joy and fright a I amazement, were upon us. The scene that followed is not to be scribed. The only person in it, outside Tabal and Mahomet, who made any p tense of keeping hi6 head was Donald, a he afterward said he had never kno' himself to act so much like an idiot. 1 rest of us had not the least semblance sanity. There ls a joy, they say, that ki! Assuredly there is a joy that makes rai and it was upon us then in raging for We were delirious with an ecstasy that se our wits flying like chaff in a sudden bia In a single instant, so to speak, we w< whirled through a million realms of po nant feeling. The emotion of a lifetime vt condensed into one burning moment, and i the stress vm acted as beings possessed. Th at any rate was Tab?l's opinion, com mm j cated to me confidentially a few day subi quent. In any case I was in no condition to o serve minutely; consequently I find it no not only impossible to give an accurate a count of the demonstration, but hard disentangle even the major impressio Perhaps what remains with me most vi idly (after my dear mother's frenzied er brace) is that Sir Thomas Gordon, mu muring words of grat Itude for the service had done him, took my baud and weptovi it like a child, and that Isabel in the pre ence of them all kissed me fervently on tl cheek. Ah, me! I never could forget that. Who I think of it after the lapse of nearly half century, that spot seems to glow with youthful heat as if it were the only part < me that keeps perpetually young. It is o the right cheek, pretty high up, and som times I go to her and say, "Isabel, is thei aredringon that cheek of iniue?" An she, well knowing what ! mean, will ai swer with a pleased smile and maybe slight heightening of the color, "Tush, tus! A man of your years should be thinking c other things." Nor can I deny she is righ for a man who has grandchildren climbin over his knees ought not to be foolisl though, as I tell her, I can scarcely convie myself of foolishness since it does one goo to try to feel young again. But all that i too far ahead of this story to be gone int here. As you may suppose, a wondrous fuss wa made over Ranee. Sir Thomas and Isabc to her unutterable delight, welcomed he cordially in her own tongue, and ray fat bei forgetting his antipathies to foreigners c her color, kissed her little brown baud i his grandest fashion, and my mothei though sorely puzzled what to make of creature who dressed so oddly and undei stood no English, received her with all til warmth of a heart that knew not how t be cold. But indeed Ranee's pretty way were not to be resisted, and she was soon by virtue of her own good qualities, estab lished as a favorite with all. To Isabel sh was as a sister, and to my mother as i daughter. I should add that Tabal and Mahomet considerably to their embarrassment, cam< in for a liberal share of the good will, ant that with Donald and Ranee they long con tinued to be objects of intense curiosity n?'; merely to those at Kilgour, but to th< whole countryside. The general opinior was that they had all come as part of mj retinue, and every ono suddenly remcm bered how he or she had predicted speedj wealth for me. "I kenned ye would soon be back wi's fortune and wheen black men, sir," thc people would say when congratulating me on my happy return. ."I ay $ said so." Good cause I had to wish that the fawn ing supposition was true. The first glad ness of my home coming was scarcely over and the cale of my adventures told when I began to suspect that things were as bad with us as when I left-that indeed they were a great deal worse. My father, being a taciturn man, sak1 little to indicate press ing trouble, but my dear mother, who used to be the light of the place, now went about with a white, drawn face and eyes.that were hardly ever dry. At last her distress became so plain and so painful to me that one day-the third or fourth after my arrival-when we were alono together, I asked ^vhy she was so troubled and if there was anything I could do for her. At this, throwing her arms about my neck, she laid her head on my breast and sobbed so sorely that I could cot help crying ?or company. "My darline mother," I said, "what does all this mean:' Tell mo what is the mat ter." She did not speak, but stood weeping and stroking my hair as she used to do in the long pas. "Tell me, mother, what is wrong?" I said again. "Tell me-I cannot endure this." "Oh, Andrew, it breaks my heart," she answered through her crying, "to think that after all you have done and suffered you comeback to a ruiued home. Nothing but a miracle will save us from being turn ed out like beggars on the heath." Tho world suddenly swam before my eyes. "And who is doing this?" I asked in a quick gasp. "The man who professed so much friend ship for us-your father's cousin, Thomas Clephane, the lawyer of Dundee." "Thomas Clephane!" I repeated, for the idea could scarcely force itself into my brain. "Thomas Clephane! And how may he have the power to do lt?" "He has the power which an overdue mortgage on the whole place gives bim." "Mother," I cried fiercely, "he shall not take Kilgour! I will kill him first." "No, no," replied my mother, clinging closer to me. "You will not. commit mur der. I mnst not lose my boy ns well as my home. No, no, I must not lose you." "Stay, mother. Just one quest ion more. Has his son-has Peter been near the place at all?" "Yes; he has been both hore and at The Elms. I think he is friendly with Miss Gordon. But wh? do you start so? You must, not be doing anything rash. Promise me that, Andrew." "I will do nothing rash, mother, except In your defense. Now let nie KO." My father entered, and I went out saying I wished to see Donald Cordon. Five minutes later I was at The Elms, hot with nianing and hotter still with anger. In the drawing room I found Sir Thomas Gordon, Isabel, Donald, Ranee and-Peter CleDbane. At steht of him my anger rose to a white hot passion that made it hard keep my promise to my mother. Rising his feet, Peter saluted me with a feign Bniile of pleasure, saying he had heard was home, and I bowed slightly in retui pretending not to notice the three flng< he held out to me. Then we sat down a did not address each other once while we ; niained in the room. When my visit, which was brief, was an end, what must Donald in his devilme do but propose that we three young m should have a walk together. To my si prise Peter Clephane agreed with ali rity, remarking it was the very thing desired. The reason was speedily ma clear. "Sir," he said to me when we were in tl road, "your travels have not mended yo manners! Yon have insulted mel" "Sir," I replied, "you give me unspeak ble pleasure. 1 will insult you again." Donald looked from one to the other f an explanation, but we had no time give it. "Sir," hissed Peter, "if I had a sword 01 ' pistol, you should eat your words!" "It's a thing I mortally hate," I a swered. "But that needn't deprive you your satisfaction. Choose your weapc and name your time and place." Donald whistled. "A private matter, presume," he said. "I don't know that it Is," returned Pete with the .spitefulness of a girl callir names. "It's simply this: Some peop spend more than they earn and then t a-borrowing. My worthy cousin can te you the rest." "And wiU," I said. "Some people lee as friends and on slight temptation tm into Jews. Li the present instance tl Jews are a fat lawyer of Dundee and h elegant son." "It's a foul lie!" cried Peter. ""We on want our own and nothing more." "No Jew ever wants more," I answer? "Shylock didn't, and the breed retains i uprightness and integrity. But we're g? ting away from business. We have mo than one score to settle, and this seems i excellent opportunity." And to make long story short it was arranged weshou have a moonlight meeting, pistols to beti weapons. Donald was to act as my secom and one David Macfarlane, a companic from Dundee, who was then Btaying at tl village inn. was to see that Peter shoal have fair play. When the time came, I slipped secret] out (having breathed no whisper of wbi was in the wind) and made off to the trys lng place, where Donald was to have m weapon tested and ready. As I was hurr; ing along, thinking what' would be the coi sequence if Peter or myself were killed, was startled at hearing my name calle from a thicket by the wayside. Turnln quickly, I saw a tall, muffled figure comin toward me from among the bushes. Nov lt 1B perhaps best to own I am not above a occasional superstition. Immediately m head was full of uncanny thiig. aboc wraiths and ghosts, and the hair rose o my cold scalp. But the next instant m heart was leaping with an emotion thf was not fear, for the voice that s^oke to m was not one to frighten. "You are in great haste, Mr. Andrew, said Isabel, coming up and throwing 01 the hood that concealed her face. "Surel you must be bent on some deed of charit to be in such a hurry." And then laughing quietly she added tx fore I could speak: "You are a very pretty fellow in you warlike humor. I am afraid your travel have made you forget the ways of peaces hie people." Seeing that she knew all, I asked he how she had discovered the secret. "1 knew something unusual was goin, on, and so I picked it out of Donald," sh answered. "And now don't you think yoi had just better go back and not put crim on your head by killing that poor fellow?' So we stood and argued the matter, pointed out to her as well as my clums tongue could how deeply my honor wa concerned and bow dastardly It would b to turn back. "A fine thing is this honor to fight about,' she said, with her bantering little laugh : "Do you think you will be any better o ? happier after you have maimed Mr. Cle ? phane for life? Tho quarrel, I think, is o )your seeking. You ind better consider, Mr Andrew, what you are doing." - So she had come to beg for Mr. Clephane'i Bfe, had she? Well, we would see abou granting her petition. Liko a boor I tok her it would bo my greatest pleasure in lifi to put a bullet into the heart of Pete Clephane. "Oh," she said In a changed voice, and ' could see a sudden flush on her face in thi moonlight. "Oh, I did not expect that an sw'er, Mr. Andrew." * I saw my mistake Instantly, but befon there was time to speak a word of apology Donald was through the wood looking foi me. 1 "This is fine work," he called out. "W< shall belate Itwantsbutflveminutesof th? time now. For heaven's sake, Kilgour, don'l be lat?! It's almost as bad as running away." "But, Donald, this is a foolish quarrel," pleaded Isabel, in spite of my rudeness. "Tut, tut, sis. Girls don't understand these things," answered Donald. "You shouldn't be abroad at this hour. Go back and keep Ranee company. She ls lonely tonight." Then just as we were about to turn into an adjacent field a boy came up and pre sented a letter to Donald. "From Mr. David Macfarlane," he said. "Hold on!" cried Donald. "I mnst run to tho light to see what he says I" He went, and Isabel .and I were again alone. I made hasta to stammer what apology I could frame, and being unused to the exer cise I managed badly and Buffered griev ously. But, luckily for me, I was dealing with one who had better qualities than pride Laughing at me for m> pains, she asked if lt was the ladies of Arabia who had taught me to make fine speeches, said she had never suspected my eloquence, and rather by manner than word indicated that perhaps I had not forever forfeited her friendship. Scarcely had I my peace made when Don ald came back. "Coward, poltroon, alanderor!" we heard him say while he was still some distance off. "The mean, sneaking curl The con temptible cabbage headed whelp!" "What is it, Donald?" cried Isabel, run ning to meet him. "This," he answered In disgust, "that the hound who dared to come to The Elms as a gentleman has funked-called off on sudden business, as if an aflair of this sort were not more important than any busi ness. If ever he sets foot here again, I'll kick him." There was a rippling laugh of gladness from Isabel. "Sis," demanded Donald fiercely, "have you any hand in this dastardly trick of his? Have you helped to get him out of the way?" "I don't answer rude questions, my war rior of the crescent," Bhe said, smiling in his face. "When you find me doing a das tardly trick, then ask again. You are both very angry at having your fun spoiled. But my brave gentlemen must remember they aro now in a civilized land. Get home, both of you, and pray heaven to grant you more sense for the future You need it, and one is just as bad as the other." ' And there being nothing else for it, we did as we were told. The duel was a fiasco, yet it was not with out result, and that is the end of my story and my reason for dwelling BO long on a trivial incident. From Peter's words and a letter he wrote to Isabel, which has not to this day been acknowledged, the Gordons heard of the desperate condition of our af fairs, but as our pride would not permit us to speak of our diilicultles, so neither would the delicacy of the Gordons permit any ref erence to them that might cause ns pain or offense But at length tho time came when it was impossible to conceal matters any longer, and taning me with him for company my father went ono day to The Elms to tell Sir Thomas all. He bud no intention of ask ing for assistance nor any expectation of re eelving lt, but simply wished to do away with false appearances and stand, as he was, a ruined man. Tho two retired to the smoking room for their talk, and they might have been an hour together when Donald and I, chancing to pass the door, were called In. There was a strange silence when we entered. My fa ther's eyes were wet-a thing I had seen not more than once In my lifo before-and Sir Thomas was smoking at a furious rate as If trying to hide himself in the blue clouds ho was emitting. They looked at each oth er once or twice with an odd expression be fore a word was said. Then Slr Thomas, taking his pipo from his mouth and with great difficulty clearing bis throat, made a -'S "little speech. Imagine my astonishment to hear Km begin a eulogy on myself for the inestima ble service I bad rendered him in restorug Donald to bis family (here Donald nodded with great vigor) and for the hardihood I had shown in going to the ends of the earth after the scapegrace (here Donald agiin nodded with greater vigor). "And whereas, Mr. Andrew," he pur sued, "one Mr. Thomas Clephane, bekiK blessed with more gear than grace, has by wile and guile and by sundry acts of tho usurer got into his possession certain deels and documents which will entitle him, fall ing the payment of certain moneys, to take possession of Kilgour, to the ruth and hann of its rightful owners, I being moved thereto by divers good reasons already set forth, have made up my mind to cheat him." "Quite right, father," put in Donald., "The proposition is sound and Just." I did not then know what I afterward learned, that Donald had warmly urged Sir Thomas to this generous act. "On this day week," resumed Sir Thom as, "at 12 o'clock noon precisely, this Thom as Clephane and his myrmidons will, ac cording to an instrument which I have pe rused, demand the aforesaid moneys at Kil gour house, and failing one payment will proceed to take possession. It will be my pleasure to see the money paid, and the j usurer and would be usurper kicked from the premises. I am a mild man, but such measures of justice are at times necessary." "Oh, papa, papa," cried a clear, bell-like voice, "that is ferocious language for you." "Come in, my dear," called Sir Thomas, and Isabel and Ranee walked in. In a^ew words Isabel was told what had taken place She, however, knew it as well as we, though she did not care to own she had been listen ing. But indeed the proposal had been no secret at The Elms for a week before "But the conditions, Sir Thomas," I said, all in a tremor with excitement. "You must name the conditions," "These," said he, and I thought there was a Bparkle in his eye as he glanced from ma to Isabel, "these, I dare say, can be arranged, Mr. Andrew. Dear me, how stuffy it is in herel Let us got into the fresh air." With perhaps the fleetest foot I ever set to earth I ran to tell my mother the good tidings. At first she could not believe me, but when my father, too, burst In breathless and beaming, her unbelief gave way and she must needs cry for joy. "I knew my boy would Bave us," she said. "Let us thank God for all his mer cies." And we did. Punctually on the day and at the hour when the money was due Thomas Clephane and his man appeared. He strutted into the house with an insolent air of ownership, thinking it no longer necessary to be polite even to my mother, and spreading out his warrants began to read them. But my fa ther stopped bim. "I think this will probably save you the trouble," he said, taking down a bag from "Qo ? ' a convenient e amazement an he counted ou ereigm "Now, Thon laid down the my lawful re you breathe ne again." "Go," I said beginnings spe off the premises At that insta his son came fri "So here you i now cowering with tho mone here to see your "Ah, Sir Tho whiningly. 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