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I TH E C H R STE N N G o r YOUN G E WA N I I . I I

MSTE R F MA N I V . TH E DE E O

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T H E D E E M S T E R

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WA N TH E DE A TH O F O L D E .

TH O RKE L L MYL RE A had waited long for a

’ S dead man s hoes , but he was wearing them f at length . He was orty years of age ; his black hair was thin on the crown and streaked with grey about the temples the crows ’ feet were thick under his small eyes , and the backs of his lean hands were coated with a

d . reddish own But he had life in every vein ,

and restless energy in every limb .

M l rea His father, Ewan y , had lived long ,

u w . and mourned m ch , and died in sorro

VO I ‘ . I . TH E DEEM S TER

The good man had been a patriarch among

s d his people, and never a serener aint had tro

the ways of men . He was already an old

man when his wife died . Over her open

grave he tried to say , The Lord gave, and

the Lord hath taken away ; blessed

Bu t his voice faltered and broke . Though he

lived ten years longer , he held up his head no i more . Little by little he relinqu shed all ff active interest in material a airs . The world hi m had lost its light for , and he was travel ling in the dusk .

Th orkell Gilc ri st On his sons , , the elder, , the younger , with nearly ﬁve years between

th e them, conduct of his estate devolved .

il c r Never were brothers more unlike . G i st resembling his father, was ( of a simple and ’ Th orkell s tranquil soul ; nature was ﬁery, impetuous , and crafty . The end was the inevitable one ; the heel of Th orkell was too s oon on th e neck of Gil c rist . TH E DEA TH O F O L D E WA N

’ Gilc rist s placid spirit overcame its ﬁrst vexation , and he seemed content to let his interests slip from his hands . Before a year was out Th orkell Myl rea was in effect the master of Ball amona ; his younger brother was nightly immersed in astronomy and the F athers , and the old man was sitting daily, in

- - his slippers , in the high backed arm chair by the ingle , over which these words were cut in

‘ ’ the black oak : God s Providence is mine

’ inheritance . ff f They were strange e ects that ollowed . People said they had never understood the

of Ball am ona extraordinary fortunes . Again and again the rents were raised throughout the estate, until the farmers cried in the grip o f overt th at their p y. they would neither go

wa ori s Th rk l nor starve . Then the gg of o e l

M l rea - y , followed close at their tail boards by t the car s of the clergy , drove into the corn

ﬁ eld s when the corn was cut, and p icked up 4 TH E DE E MS TE A’ the stooks and bore them away amid the deep curses of the bare—armed reapers who looked on in their impotent rage .

' N ev erth el ess Th orkell M l rea d far , y sai , and

o f v wide , without any show reser e , and with

o f t f every accent sincerity , tha never be ore ’ ff had his father s a airs worn so grave a look . f He told Ewan as much time a ter time , and f then the troubled old ace looked puzzled .

The end o f many earnest consultations be tween father and son , as the one sat by the open hearth and the other leaned against the lettered ingle , was a speedy recourse to certain

an n money s that lay at E glish bank , as well

’ as the old man s signature to documents of high moment . Old Ewan ’ s spirits sank yet lower year by

bu t f year , he lived on peace ully enough . As time went by , he talked less , and his humid eyes seemed to look within in degree as they grew dim to things without . But the day TH E DE A TH O F O L D E WA N came at length when the old man d ied in his chair , before the slumberous peat ﬁre on the

u hearth, q ietly, silently , without a movement, his graspless ﬁngers fumbling a worm- eaten

- hi s hour glass , long waves of thin white hair li fal ng over his drooping shoulders , and his upturned eyes ﬁxed in a strong stare on the

‘ ’ — S f text carved on the rannel tree hel , God s

’ Providence is mine inheritance .

That night Th orkell sat alone at the same ingle, in the same chair , glancing at many parchments and dropping them one by one into the ﬁre . Long afterwards , when idle tongues were set to wag, it was said that the elder son

of Ewan Myl rea had found a means whereby

’ to sap away his father s personalty . Then it was remembered that through all his strange

misfortunes Th orkell had borne an equal

countenance . They buried the old man under the elder

tree by the wall of the churchyard that stands 6 TH E DE E M S TE R

th e over against sea . It seemed as if half o f

the inhabitants o f the island came to his

Six a funeral, and sets of be rers claimed their

turn to carry him to the grave . The day was

a gloomy day of winter there was not a bird or a breath in the heavy air the sky was low and empty the long dead sea was very grey and cold and over the unploughed land the

withered stalks o f the last crop lay dank on

the mould . When the company returned to

Ball am ona they sat down to eat and drink

‘ fo r and make merry , excessive sorrow is ex

’ n for c eedi g dry . No one asked the will ; there was no Will because there was no s per onalty , and the lands were by law the

Th o rkell inheritance of the eldest son . was

a of at the he d his table , and he smiled a little , and sometimes reached over the board to touch with his glass the glass that was held

w il c ri st out to ards him . G had stood with these mourners under the empty sky, and his

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‘ ff he p aused . A airs are in a bad way at — ’ Ball amona very .

Gilc rist n o made response whatever, but clasped his hands about his knee and looked steadily into the ﬁre .

‘ n ow We are neither of us young men , but

of— of—e an th in if you should think y g, I should consider it wrong to stand—to put myself in your way—to keep you here that is—to your

’

w. disadvantage, you kno

Th orkell was standing with his back to the ﬁre , and his ﬁngers interlaced behind

‘ ’ Gilc ri st rose to his feet . Very well, he w said ith a strained quietness , and then turned towards the window and looked out at the

’ dark sea . Only the sea s voice from the shore beyond the churchyard broke the silence in that little room .

Th orkell stood a moment , leaning on the

f n mantelshel , and the ﬂickeri g lights of the TH E DE A TH O F O L D E WA N 9

S hi s f ﬁre seemed to make inister smiles on ace .

Then he went out without a word .

Next morning at daybreak Gil c rist Mylrea was ridingtowards Derby Haven with a pack

- in green cloth across his saddle bow . He

’ took passage by the King Orry, an old sea tub plying once a week to Liverpool . From Liverpool he went on to Cambridge to offer himself as a sizar at the University .

It had never occurred to anyone that k l l f Th or e l My rea would marry . But his ather was scarcely cold in his grave, the old sea tub that took his brother across the Channel had

- Th orkell hardly grounded at Liverpool , when

Mylrea offered his heart and wrinkled hand and the ﬁve hundred acres of Ball amona to a lady twenty years of age , who lived at a dis tance of some six miles from his estate . It woul d be more precise to say that the liberal

’ tender was made to the lady s father, for her o wn will was little more than a cypher in the 1 0 TH E DE E I WS TE R

f . o bargaining She was a girl sweet spirit, very tender and submissive, and much under the spell of religious feeling . Her mother f had died during her in ancy, and she had been brou ght up in a household that was without

v other children , in a gaunt rectory that ne er

’ echoed with children s voices . Her father was Archdeacon of the island , Archdeacon

Jo an c Teare her own name was e .

If half the inhabitants of the island turned

’ f 0 ul a out at old Ewan s uneral , the entire p p tion of four parishes made a holiday of h i s ’ f son s wedding . The one ollowed hard upon

r f the othe , and thrift was not absent rom

Th orkell either . was married in the early

’ spring at the Archdeacon s church at Andreas . I t would be rash to say that the presence of the great company at the wedding was intended as a tribute to the many virtues o f

Th rk ll M lrea o e . y Indeed , it was as well that the elderly bridegroom could not overhear the TH E DE A TH O F O L D E WA N I

conversation with which some o f the homely

folk beguiled the way .

’ o f Aw , the murther it, said one buirdly

’ ﬁ ve - - if Manxman , and forty he s a day, and a

’ wizened ould polecat anyway .

’ ’ ’ feelin s You d really the gel s got no .

’ ’ sh o c kin sh o c kin i ! Aw, , extraord nary

‘ ’ And a rael good gel too , they re sayin .

’ ’ Am az in I Am az in

The marriage o f Th orkell was a curious F ceremony . irst there walked abreast the

ﬁddler and the piper , playing vigorously the

‘ ’ Black and Grey ; t hen came the bride

’ o f groom s men carrying osiers , as emblems their superiority over the bridesmaids , who followed them . . Three times the company

C f passed round the hurch be ore entering it , and then they trooped up towards the com munion rail .

Th orkell went through the ceremony with f the air o a whipped terrier . On the outside 1 2 TH E DEEMS TER

ff hi s he was gay in frills and cu s , and thin hair was brushed crosswise over the bald patch

on his crown . He wore buckled shoes and

blue laces to his breeches . But his brave ex

t erior lent him small support as he took the

d ' of ungloved h an his girlish bride . He gave

his responses in a voice that ﬁrst faltered, and

t . 0 hen sent out a quick , harsh , loud pipe N such gaunt and grim shadow of a j oyful bride

groom ever before knelt beside a beautiful

bride , and while the Archdeacon married this spectre of a happy man to his own submissive

d w o f aughter, the hispered comments the throng that ﬁlled nave and aisles and gallery

sometimes reached his own ears .

’ You wouldn t think it, now , that the

’ and craythur s sold his own gel , him preaching there about the covenant and Isaac and Re a l becc , and all that

’ ’ ‘ and Hush , man , it s Laban Jacob he s

’ meaning . TH E DE A TH O F O L D E WA N 1 3

m When the cere ony had come to an end , and the bridegroom ’ s eyes were no longer ﬁxed in a s tony stare on the words o f the Com

m and ment s printed in black and white under w the chancel windo , the scene underwent a

C Th ork ll swift hange . In one minute e was l ike another man . All his abj ect bearing fell

o f away . When the party was clear the churchyard four of the groom ’ s men started

for R the ectory at a race , and the ﬁrst to reach

w on of it a ﬂask brandy , with which he re

at n turned high speed to the weddi g company .

Th orkell Then , as the custom was , bade his friends to form a circle where they stood in

the road , while he drank of the brandy and f handed the ﬂask to his wi e .

‘ ’ Custom must be indulged with custom ,

’

l . said he , or custom wil weep After that the company moved on until

’ they reached t h e door of the Arch deacon s

house, where the bridecake was broken over 1 4 TH E DE EM S TE R

’ the bride s head , and then thrown to be scrambled for by the noisy throng th at blew neat ’ s horns and ﬁred guns and sang ditties by the way .

Th orkell n of , with the chivalrous beari g f an old courtier, delivered up his wi e to the

ﬂo ck of ladies who were ready to pounce upon R her at the door of the ectory . Then he mingled freely with the people and chatted and bantered , and made quips and quibbles . F inally, he invited all and sundry to partake freely of the oaten cake and ale that he had himself brought from Ball am on a in his car for the refreshment of his own tenants there pre sent . The fare was Lenten fare for a wedding

- day, and some of the straggle headed troop

snifﬂed grumbled, and some , and some

o ut scratched their heads , and some laughed right . The beer and bread were left almost untouched .

Th orkell was blind to the discontent of

1 6 TH E DEE MS TER barn the yet nois ier racket of the people

without .

‘ By this time , whatever sentiment of doubt ful Charity had been h arboured in the icy breast of the Manxman had been thawed away ff under the charitable e ects of good cheer , and

Th orkell Mylrea and Archdeacon Teare began i to appear in truly Christ an character .

’ ’ It s none so ould he is yet , at all at all . Ould He hasn ’ t the hayseed out of his hair , boy .

‘ And a shocking powerful head -piece at

’ him for all . There were rough j okes and d ubious

kell Th or . toasts , and enj oyed them all There was dancing , too , and ﬁddling , and the pipes at intervals , and all went merry until mid

of night , when the unharmonious harmonies

ﬁddle and pipes and unsteady song went off over the Curraghs in various directions . Next morning Th orkell took his wife TH E DE A TH O F O L D E WA N 1 7

Ball amona n home to . They drove in the ope springless car in which he had brought down

Th orkell h ad the oaten cake and ale . seen that the remain s o f these good viands were d thriftily gathere up . He took them back home with him , carefully packed under the board on which his young

VO L . I . 1 8 TH E DEEM S TE R

R CHAPTE II .

A MA N C H I L D I S BO RN .

’ T H RE E years passed and Th orkell s fortunes

and l a t e. grew apace . He toiled early Time had no odd days or holiday in his calendar .

d a Every day was working y except Sunday ,

Th orkell and then , like a devout Christian ,

Th o rkell went to church . believed that he

“ was a devoutly religious man , but rumour whispered that he was better able to make his

words ﬂy up than to prevent his thoughts

from remaining below . His wife did not seem to be a happy

n woman . Duri g the three years of her married life she had not borne her husband

children . It began to dawn upon her that A M A N CHI L D 15 B O RN r9

’ Th orkell s sole desire in marriage had been a child , a son , to whom he could leave what no man can carry away .

One Sunday morning as Th orkell and hi s wife were on their way to church , a young woman of about twenty passed them , and as she went by she curtsied low to the lady .

The girl had a comely nut - brown face with dark wavy Clusters of hair tumbli ng over her forehead ﬁ om beneath a white sun - bonnet of which the poke had been dexterously rolled

u back . It was summer, and her light bl e bodice was open and showed a white under

S bodice and a full neck . Her leeves were rolled up over the elbows , and her dimpled

n arms were bare and brow . There was a look of coquetry in her hazel eyes as they shot up their dark lustre under her long lashes , and

dr then opped as quickly to her feet . She

e c l o c k wore buckl shoes with the open tops .

’ Th orkell s quick eyes glanced over her, and 20 TH E DEEM S TE R when the girl curtsied to his wife he fell back the few paces that he was in front of her . ‘ d Who is she he aske .

’ Th orkell s wife replied that the girl was a

- net maker from near Peeltown . ‘ What ’ s her name

’ ’ Th orkell s wife answered that the girl s

Kerru i sh name was Mally . Who are her people ? Has she any

’ Th orkell s wife explained that the girl h ad w a mother only, who was poor and orked in

Ball amona the ﬁelds , and had come to for help during the last hard winter . Humph ! Doesn ’ t look as if the daughter

for wanted much . How does the girl come by her ﬁne feathers if her mother lives on charity

’ Th orkell s wizened face was twisted into

’ f and grotesque lines . His wi e s face saddened , her voice dropped as she hinted in faltering accents that scandal did say—say ’ A M A N CH I L D I S B O RN 2 1

? ’ Well , woman , what does scandal say

Th orkell asked , and his voice had a curious

h i s l . ilt , and mouth wore a strange smile

’ —I m f Th orkell It says a raid , , the poor

’ girl is no better than she ought to be .

Th orkell snorted , and then laughed in his

- n throat like a frisky geldi g .

I thought Sh e looked like a lively young

’ ufﬁn p , he said , and then trotted on in front , hi s lli w head ro ng bet een his shoulders , and

i few his eyes down . After go ng a yards

u f rther he slackened speed again .

—a Lives near Peeltown , you say net — — maker Mally is it Mally Kerr ui sh

’ Th orkell s wife answered with a nod of the f head , and then her husband aced about , and troubled her with no further Conversation

n i w u t l he dre up at the church door, and said ,

u m Q ick , woman , quick, and ind you shut

’ the pew door after you .

‘ But God remembered Rachel and h eark 2 2 TH E DE E M S TE A’

’ e ned to her, and then , for the ﬁrst time , the

wife of Th orkell Myl rea began to show a

’ C Th orkell s heerful countenance . own eleva

of tion spirits was yet more noticeable . He had heretofore showed no discontent with the o ld homestead that had housed his people for i six generations , but he now began to bu ld a nother and much larger house on the rising

lieu Dh o o ground at the foot of S . His habits

underwent some swift and various changes .

He gave away no grey blankets that winter,

the itinerant poor who were o n the houses

often went empty from his door , and

— " most appalling change of all h e promptly

’ s topped his tithe . When the parson s cart

Ball amona Th orkell drove up to , turned the

’ horse s head , and gave the ﬂank a sharp cutwith

his whip . The parson came in white wrath .

’ Let every pig dig for herself, said Thor

‘ ’ kell . I ll daub grease on the rump of your

0 7 i m oi a fat p g no e .

24 TH E DE E MS TE R

s torm and swore at the men , and when the

" t h e rk wind subsided he had wo done afresh .

Ball am ona The old homestead of was thatched ,

but the new one must be slated , and slates

Slieu Dh o o were quarried at and carted to , and f run on to the new roo . A dead calm had

O prevailed during these perations , but it was the calm that lies in the heart of the storm , and the night after they were completed the other edge of the cyclone passed over the

' t h eir root s island, tearing up the trees by , and

B ll m n shaking the old a a o a to its foundations .

Th o rkell M l rea y slept not a wink , but tramped up and down his bedroom the long night

at through and next morning, daybreak , he i w drew the bl nd of his windo , and peered

through the haze o f the dawn to where his

new house stood on the breast of Slieu Dh oo . — He could j ust descry its blue walls it was rooﬂess . The people began to mutter beneath their

breath . A MA N CHIL D I S B O RN 2 5

‘ ’ ’ AW m an . , , it s a j udgment , said one

’ He has been middlin hard on the widd a

’ ’ and fatherless , and it s like enough that there s

’ Them aloft as knows it . What ’ s that they ’ re saying said one old

e W rone , What comes with the ind goes with

’ the water . f — Och , I knew his ather him and me were same as brothers—and a good ould man

’ for all .

‘ Well, and many a good cow has a bad f ’ cal , said the old woman .

Th o rkell went aboiI t like a cloud of thun

and . der, when he heard that the accidents to his new homestead were ascribed to super natural agencies he ﬂas hed like forked light

‘ ’ ’ Where there are geese there s dirt, he

’ said , and where there are women there s talking . Am I to be frightened if an old woman sneezes 26 THE DEEM S TER

But before Th orkell set to work again he paid his tithe . He paid it with a rick of di s coloured - oats that had been cut in the wet and

Thorkel threshed before it was dry . l had

ul often wondered whether his cows wo d eat it . The next Sunday morning the parson paused before his sermon to complain that certain of his parishioners , whom he would not name at present , appeared to think that what was too bad for the pigs was good enough for the

o f priests . Let the Church God have no more

- h orkell o f their pig Swill . T in his pew chuckled audibly and ‘ muttered something

for about paying a dead horse . It was spring when the second roof was blown down , and the new house stood roof Th l less until early summer . Then orke l sent f R our lean pigs across to the ectory , and got his carpenters together and set them to work .

n The rooﬁng proceeded without i terruption .

swal The primrose was not yet gone, the A M A N CHIL D I S B O RN 2 7

a nd low had not yet come , the young grass

under the feet of the oxen was still small and

’ Th orkell f sweet when s wi e took to her bed .

H mm - all Ball am ona r . o Then was asti y beg ,

of Ball amon a the deaf gardener , was sent in the hot haste of his best two miles an hour to

ll nl the vi age , commo y known as the Street , to i n summon the midwife . Th s good woma was

called Kerry Quayle Sh e was a spinster of

Sh e all l . forty , and was but b ind

‘ ’ I m thi nkin g the woman - body is after

’ H o mm - going on the straw, said y beg, when he reached the Street , and this was the sum of the message that he deli vered .

’ ’ off Then we d better be , as the saying is ,

remarked Kerry , who never accepted responsi bili ty for any syllable she ever uttered .

Ball am ona Th orkell When they got to ,

Mylrea bustled H o mmy - beg into the square

A n springless car, and told him to drive to

d reas f , and etch the Archdeacon without an 2 8 TH E DE E I WS TE R

’ H omm - hou r s delay . y beg set o ff at ﬁne paces that carried h im to the Archdeaconry a

of m matter four iles an hour .

Th orkell followed Kerry Quayle to the room above . When they stepped into the bedroom

Th orkell drew the midwife aside to a table on which a large candle stood in a tall brass candlestick with gruesome gargoyles carved F on the base and upper ﬂange . rom this table he picked up a small Testament bound in shiny

c . leather, with silver lasps

" ’ ’ I m as great a man as any in the island ,

‘ Th orkell said , in his shrill whisper, for laughing at the simpletons that talk about

’ n i k o f witches and bo aga es and the l e that .

’ So you are , as the saying is , said Kerry . ‘ I ’ d have the law on the lot of them , if I

’ Th orkell had my way, said , still holding the

‘ ’ sh oc kin Aw, and powerful luck it would

th e be, as old body said , if all the witches and A M A N CH I L D I S B O RN 29 boaganes in the island could be run into the

’ sea , said Kerry .

‘ ’ Pshaw ! I m talking o f the simpletons

’ h Th rk ll o e . that believe in t em , said , snappishly

‘ ’ ’ I d C R lap them all in Castle ushen .

Aw , yes , and clean law and clean j ustice ,

’ too , as the Irishman said . So don ’ t think I want the midwife to take

’ Th rk ll o e . her oath in my house , said

’ c oorse Och, no, of not . You wouldn t f ’ bemean yoursel , as they say .

n w But , then , you k o what the saying is ,

Kerry . Custom must be indulged with custom , or custom will weep , and , saying

’ Th orkell s v n this , oice took a most insinuati g tone .

’ as Aw , now, and I m as good here and

a di there one at st n ng up for custom , as the ’ f saying is , said the midwi e .

The end of it all was that Kerry Q uayle took there and then a solemn oath not to use 3 0 TH E DEEM S TER sorcery or incantation of any kind in the time f of travail , not to change the in ant at the hour o f its birth, not to leave it in the room for a week afterwards without spreading the tongs o ver its crib , and much else of the like solemn purport .

The dusk deepened , and the Archdeacon had not yet arrived . Night came on , and the

Th orkell room was dark , but would not allow

o r l . a lamp to be brought in , a ﬁre to be ighted

H omm Some time later, say six hours after y

- beg had set out on his six mile j ourney, a

of lumbrous , j olting sound heavy wheels came

a from the road below the Curr gh , and soon afterwards the Archdeacon entered the room .

’ So dark , he said , on stumbling across the threshold .

‘ ’ ! Th orkell Ah Archdeacon , said , with the unaccustomed greeting of an outstretched

‘ d a ' han , the Church sh ll bring light to the

’ Th orkell chamber here , and handed the

3 : TH E DEEMS TER

devil may ﬂee from that habitation - and - no

- — more - disquiet them - that - serve Thee l After the penultimate word there was a

short pause, and at the last word there was i the sharp crack of the ﬂint, and in an nstant the candle was lighted . Then the Archdeacon turned towards the bed and exchanged some words with his f daughter . The bed was a mahogany our post one, with legs like rocks , a hood like a

- and t pulpit sounding board , tapestry cur ains like a muddy avalanche . The Archdeacon he was a small man , with a face like a russet

— one o f - apple leaned against the bed posts , and said , in a tone of banter

’ Th orkell ind ul Why, , and if you re for g ing custom , how comes it that you have not hung u p your hat

—m ! Th orkell My hat y hat said , in per pl ex ity .

‘ ’ ‘ ’ th e m Aw , now , said midwife , the aster s A M A N CH IL D 15 B O RN 33 as great a man as any i n the island at laugh

' ing at the men craythurs that hang up their

f boa anes hats over the straw to right the g , as

’ the old woman Said .

’ Th orkell s laughter inst antly burst forth f f ’ to justi y the midwi e s statement . ‘ ! ! Ha , ha Hang up my hat Well now , well now ! Drives away the black spirits from

’ the birth - bed—isn t that what the dunces say ? It ’ s twenty years since I saw the li ke of it ’ f done , and I d orgotten the old custom . Must

’ fu look nny , very, the good man s hat perched

- ? up on the bed post What d ye say , Arch ? deacon , shall we have it up Just for the ! laugh , you know , ha , ha

In another moment Th orkell was gone from the room , and his titter could be heard from the stairs it ebbed away and presently

Th orkell ﬂowed back again , and was once m more by the bedside , laughing i moderately,

and perching his angular soft hat on the top

L I v o ; . 34 TH E DEEM S TER most knob of one of the posts at the foot of the bed .

Then Th orkell and the Archdeacon went down to the little room that had once been

Gil c ri st s room , looking over the Curragh to the sea . Before daybreak next morning a man

n Th orkell M lrea an child was bor to y , and

Ballamona heir to the ﬁve hundred acres of . R CHAPTE III .

TH E C H I TE N I N F Y N WA N R S G O O U G E .

IN the dead waste of that night the old walls

of Ball amon a echoed to the noise o f hurrying

Th orkell i f feet . h msel ran like a squirrel , hither and thither, breaking out now and

again into shrill peals of hysterical laughter while the women took the kettle to the room

v in above, and employed themsel es there sundry mysterious ordinances on which no

Th orkell male busybody might intrude .

and dived down into the kitchen , rooted about

in the meal casks for the oaten cake, and into

the larder for the cheese , and into the cup

board for the bread - basket known as the 36 TH E DE E M S TE R

H omm - y beg , who had not been permitted f to go home that night, had coiled himsel in f the settle drawn up be ore the kitchen ﬁre ,

Th orkell and was now snoring lustily . roused him , and set him to break the oatcake i and cheese into small pieces nto the peck , and , when this was done , to scatter it broad

a in c st on the staircase and land g , and on the

- o f garden path immediately in front the house , lf while he himse carried a similar peck , piled up l ike a pyramid with similar pieces of oat

and e m W cake ch ese , to the roo hence there

u t iss ed at intervals a hin , small voice, that was the sweetest music that had ever yet

’ fallen on Th o rkell s ear What high commotion did the next day witness ! For the ﬁrst time since that lurid d ay when old Ewan Myl rea was laid under

' c h u rc h ard b the elder tree in the y y the sea ,

all a B mona kept open house . The itinerant poor, who made the circuit of the houses , TH E CH RI S TE N I N G O F YO UN G E WA N 3 7

if t u came again , and l ted the la ch witho t

knocking, and sat at the ﬁre without being

of asked, and ate the oatcake and the cheese . f And upstairs , where a meek white ace looked

out with an unfamiliar smile from behind

S heets that were hardly more white , the robustious statespeople from twenty miles around sat down in their odorous atmosphere

o f rude health and high spirits , and noise and

o f new laughter, to drink their glass brewed j ough , and to spread on their oaten bread a

thick crust of the rum - butter that stood in the

great blue china bowl on the little table near — - . Th orkell the bed head . And how nimbly

he hopped about , and encouraged his visitors

to drink , and rallied them if they ceased to

’ m an Come , come , he said a score of f times , shame ul leaving is worse than shame

n — i ! ful eati g eat , dr nk

And they ate , and they drank , and they 38 TH E DE E M S TE R

laughed , and they sang, till the bedroom

f o f - reeked with the umes a pot house , and the confusion of tongues therein was worse than f at the oot of Babel . Throughout three long j ovial weeks the visitors came and went, and every day the ‘ blithe bread ’ was piled in the peck for the

o f poor the earth , and scattered on the paths

o f for the good spirits the air . And when people j ested upon this , and said that not since the old days o f their grandfathers h ad the bo agan es and the fairies been so civilly

Th orkell u treated , la ghed noisily, and said what great fun it was that they should think

an d he was superstitious , that custom must be ! indulged with custom , or custom would weep

Then came the christening , and to this

ceremony the whole country round was invited .

rk ll a f Th o e . o was now man consequence , and the neighbo urs high and l ow trooped in with

f ' n presents or the you g Christian .

40 TH E DE EM S TE R

Then as the drops fell over the wee blinking

eyes , and all voices were hushed in silence and

awe , there came to the open porch and looked

ﬂeec into the dusky church a little y lamb , all

soft and white and beautiful . It lifted i t s innocent and d azed face where it stood in the morning sunshine, on the grass of the graves ,

if i t and bleated , and bleated, as had strayed from its mother and was lost . The Archdeacon paused with his drooping ﬁnger half raised over the other innocent face

’ Th ork ell s f u at his breast , eat res twitched, and th e h is tears ran down the white cheeks of wife .

In an instant the baby - lamb had hobbled f away , and be ore the Archdeacon had restored

C of or the hild to the arms blind Kerry, mumbled the last of the prayers , there came th e hum of many voices from the distance .

The noise came rapidly nearer, and as it

’ approached it broke into a tumult of men s

’ S deep houts and women s shrill cries . TH E CH RI S TE N I N G O F YO UN G E WA N 41

The iron hasp of the lych- gate to the

C churchyard was heard to hink , and at the same moment there was the sound of hurry ing footsteps on the paved way . The com pany that h ad gathered about the font broke up abruptly, and made for the porch with looks of inquiry and amazement . There , at the head o f a mixed throng of the riff r aff of

m en the parish , bareheaded , women with bold f faces , and children with naked eet, a man held a young woman by the arm and pulled her towards the church . He was a stalwart f fellow, stern of eature , iron grey , and he

’ gripped the girl s bare brown arm like a vice .

Make way there Come, mistress , and no

’ struggling, he shouted , and he tugged the

hi m . girl after , and then pushed her before him

‘ She was young ; twenty at most . Her comely face was drawn hard with lines of pain ; . her hazel eyes ﬂashed with wrath ; and where her white sun - bonnet had fallen 42 TH E DEE M S TE R

back from her head on to her shoulders , the knots of her dark hair, draggled and tangled in f m the scu ﬂe, tumbled in asses over her neck and cheeks .

Kerru i sh It was Mally , and the man who held her and forced her along was the parish sumner, the church constable . ! Make way , I tell you shouted the w sumner to the throng that cro ded upon him ,

t h e and into porch , and through the company

for that had come the christening . When the

Archdeacon stepped down from the side of the f ont , the sumner with his prisoner drew up

t h e r on the instant , and noisy c ew stood and was silent .

‘ fo r I have brought her her oath , your

’ reverence , said the sumner , dropping his voice and his head together . ‘ ? ’ Who accuses her the Archdeacon asked .

‘ ’ ‘ Her old mother, said the sumner here

’ she is . TH E CH RI S TE N I N G O F YO UN G E WA N 43

‘ From the middle o f the throng behind hi m the sumner d rew out an elderly woman f with a hard and wizened ace . Her head was

w h er bare, her eyes ere quick and restless ,

h er Chi lips ﬁrm and long , n was broad and

for heavy . The woman elbowed her way ward ; but when she was brought face to f a nd a ace with the Archdeacon , he sked her if

u she charged her da ghter, she looked around

n before answeri g , and seeing her girl Mally f standing there with her white ace , under the

o f ﬁre ﬁfty pairs of eyes , all her resolution seemed to leave her .

‘ ’ ’ ‘ It n ath eral Sh e isn t , I know , said , a

’ mother speaking up agen her child , and with f that her hard mouth so tened , her quick eyes reddened and ﬁlled , and her hands went up

‘ f Bu t to her ace . nature goes down with a ﬂood when you ’ re looking to have another

S belly to ﬁll, and not a hilling at you this

’ n fort ight . 44 TH E DEEM S TER

The girl stood without a word , and not

one streak o f colour came to her white C heeks

as her mother spoke .

She denied it , and denied it, and said no ,

and no ; but leave it to a mother to know

’ ’ what way her girl s going . There was a low murmur among the

people at the back and some whispering . The i ’ g rl s keen ear caught it , and she turned her

d r hea ove her shoulder with a deﬁant glance . Who is the man said the Archdeacon recallin g her with a touch of his ﬁnger on her

arm .

d id re She not answer at ﬁrst , and he

eat ed p the question . ‘ Who is the guil ty man ? ’ he said in a

voice more stern .

‘ ’ ’ u It s not tr e . Let me go , said the girl t in a quick under one .

Who is the partner o f your sin ’ w ll It s not true , I say . Let me go , i TH E CH RI S TE IVI N G O F YO UIVG E l VA N 45 you ? ’ and the girl struggled feebly in the

’ r sumne s grip .

‘ ’ h er Bring to the altar, said the Arch

f c deacon . He a ed about and walked towards the communion and entered it . The company followed him and drew up outside the com

l a Tes am n f munion rai . He took t e t rom the

in and read g desk stepped towards the girl .

There was a dead hush .

The Church provides a remedy for sl an

’ in C If der, he said a cold , lear tone . you are

n not guilty swear that you are i nocent , that he who tampers with your good name may

’ beware . With that the Archdeacon held the

Testament towards the girl . She made no

r show of taking it . He th ust it into her

u hand . At the to ch of the book she gave

f n a ai t cry and stepped a pace backward , the Testament fall ing open on to the penitent form beneath .

Then the murmur of the bystanders rose TH E DEE M S TER

and again . The girl heard it once more, dropped on her knees and covered her face , and cried in a tremulous voice that echoed

‘ ’ over the church , Let me go , let me go . The company that came for the christen ing had walked up the aisle . Blinking Kerry f stood apart, hushing the in ant in her arms h l it made a fretful whimper . T orke l stood behind , pawing the paved path with a restless Wf ’ foot . His i e had made her way to the girl s

w . side , her eyes overﬂowing ith compassion

’ Take her to prison at the Peel , said the

‘ Archdeacon , and keep her there until she

’ f m of con esses the na e her paramour . At that

’ Th orkell s wife dropped to her knees beside

in n arm the kneel g girl , and putti g one about her neck raised the other against the sumner , f ’ and cried , No, no , no she will con ess .

There was a pause and a long hush .

l et Mally her hands fall from her face , and turned her eyes full on the eyes of the young

48 TH E D E E M S TER

day . The new house was ﬁnished , and the

M l rea Ball amona young Christian Ewan y , of , was the ﬁrst to enter it fo r was it not to be

’ ’ n C his house , and his childre s , and his hildren s

’ Chil dren s

’ Th orkell s wife did not j oin the revels , but in her new home she went back to her bed .

The fatigue and excitement of the day had

Th ork ll been too much for her . e himself sat in il his place, and laughed nois y and drank much . Towards sunset the sumner came to say that the girl who had been taken to prison at the Peel had confessed , and was now at large . The Archdeacon got up and went out

Th orkell - of the room . called lustily o u his

st u eﬁ ed guests to drink again , and one p old crony Cl ambered to his feet and demanded silence for a toast .

’ ‘ ' ’ TO f b - the ather of the girl s y blow, he shouted, when the glasses were charged and

then the company laughed till the roof rang , TH E CHRI S TE N I N G O F YO UN G E WA N 49 and above all was the shrill laugh of Th orkell

M l rea O i y . Presently the door pened aga n, f and the Archdeacon , with a long grave ace , stood on the threshold and beckoned to

Th orkell Th orkell at the head of his table . went out with him , and when they returned

m of together a little later, and the aster Balla

e et mona r sumed his seat , he laughed y more noisily than before , and drank yet more liquor .

On the outside of Ballamona that night an old woman , hooded and caped , knocked at the door . The loud laughter and the ranting songs from within came out to her where she stood in the darkness , under the silent stars .

When the door was O pened by H ommy - beg

m na the woman asked for Mylrea Ball a o .

H o mmy - beg repulsed her, and would have shut the door in her face . She called again ,

and and again , yet again , and at last , by

H omm - reason of her importunity, y beg went

Th orkel l f in and told , who got up and ollowed

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him out . The Archdeacon heard the message , f and le t the room at the same moment .

u O tside , on the gravel path , the old woman

stood with . th e light of the lamp that burned

w f . in the hall on her izened ace . It was Mrs

Kerrui sh o f , the mother Mally .

’ ’ t o u It s ﬁne imes y re having of it, Master

’ ‘ M l rea - y , she said , and you , too , your rever ? ence , but what about me and my poor girl

’ was f It yoursel that did it , woman , said

Th orkell ; and he tried to laugh , but under f the stars his laugh ell short .

Me , you say Me , was it for all May d the good God j u ge between us , Master

’ ’ M l r a D e y e . y know what it is that s hap

’ pened My poor girl s gone .

— o ff— Eh , gone gone gone to hide her f ’ shame ul face God help her .

‘ ’ i Th orkell Better luck , sa d , and a short gurgle rattled in his dry throat . TH E CHRI S TEN I N G O F YO UN G E WA N 51

‘ Luck , you call it Luck Take care

’

Ball amona .

‘ no The Archdeacon interposed . Come,

’ threats , my good woman , he said , and waved

h as hi s hand in protestation . The Church

’ done you j ustice in this matter .

‘ Threats , your reverence Justice Is it justice to punish the woman and let the man go free ? What the woman to stand penance six Sabbaths by the church - door of di six parishes , and the man to pay his rty money , six pounds to you and three to me, and then no mortal to name hi s name The old woman rummaged in the pocket

C n . at her side and pulled out a few oi s Here ,

’ take them back ; I m no Judas to buy my i ’ . ! own g rl Here , I say , take them

Th orkell had thrust hi s hands in hi s pockets , and was making a great show of

u la ghing boisterously .

The old woman stood silent for a moment ,

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and her pale face turned livid . Then by a sudden impulse she lifted her eyes and her

‘ ’ two trembling arms . God in Heaven , she

said in a hoarse whisper, let Thy wrath rest on t his man ’ s head m ake this house that he has built for himself and for his children a curse to him and them and theirs bring it to pass that no birth come to it but death

u t come with it, and so on and on n il Thou h i m ’ hast done j ustice between and me .

’ h r ll u T o ke s la ghter stopped suddenly . As

f and the woman spoke his ace quivered, his knees shook perceptibly under him . Then he took her by the arms and clutched her con

‘ l iv l w vu s e . y Woman , oman what are

’ s ay ing ? he cried in his shrill treble . disengaged herself and went away into night . For a moment Th orkell tramped the hall with nervous footsteps . The Archdeacon

T th e u stood Speechless . hen sound of la ghter TH E CHRI S TEN I N G O F YO UN G E WA N 53

m m and of song came fro the roo they had left ,

- and Th orkell ﬂung in on the merry makers .

Go home, go home , every man of you " o u ! Away with y he shouted hysterically, and then dr opped like a log into a chair .

One by one, with many wise shakes of

n ma y sapient heads , the tipsy revellers broke

off up and went , leaving the master of Balla mona alone in that chamber, dense with dead smoke , and noisome with the fumes of 54 TH E DEEM S TER

R CHAPTE IV .

TH E E E M TE R F MA D S O N .

TWE N TY times that night Th orkell devised expedients to break the web of fate . At ﬁrst his thoughts were of revengeful deﬁance . By fair means o r foul the woman Kerrui sh should s u sh o u ld ' be o u t ffer . She turned of house and home . She should tramp the roads as a mendicant . He would put his foot on her n u n eck . Then they would see what her c anny threats had come to .

He tried this unc tion for his affrighted

s . pirit, and put it aside as useless No , no ; h e would conciliate the woman . He woul d s ettle an annuity of ﬁve pounds a year upon h er he would give her the snug gate cottage

56 TH E DE E MS TE E

at its sheer absurdity, only that it was pam

ol eration pered by the law . T for superstition !

Every man who betrayed faith in o mens or

of portents , or charms or spells , or the power the evil eye , should be instantly clapped in the

. d Castle . It was but right that a rabid og

u should be m zzled .

Th orkell i shut the w ndow, closed the

w off w shutters , thre his clothes , and ent back to bed . In the silence and the darkness , his thoughts took yet another turn . What mad ness it was , what pertness and unbelief, to rej ect that faith in which the best and wisest of all ages had lived and died Had not o mens and portents,and charms and spells , and the evil eye been believed in in all ages What midget of modern days should now arise with a superior smile and say, Behold ,

u this is folly Saul of Israel and Saul of Tars s , and Samuel and Solomon rose up and lay down f ’ in olly . TH E DEEM S TER O F M A N 57

Th orkell of f m leapt out bed , sweating ro

Kerrui sh every pore . The old woman , , should be pensioned ; she should live in the cosy cottage at the gates of Ball amon a she should have blankets and tea and many a snug com fort ; h er daughter Should be brought back — — and married yes , married to some honest fellow .

The lark was loud in the sky , the rooks were stirring in the lofty ash , the swallows pecking at the lattice , when sleep came at

’ Th orkell s - length to blood shot eyes , and he

l ful stretched himse f in a short and ﬁ t slumber .

of He awoke with a start . The lusty rap

H omm — hi s y beg was at the door of room .

There was no itinerant postman , and it was

’ one of H ommy - beg s daily duties to go to the

O ﬂi c e Post . He had been there this morning , and was now returned with a letter for his master .

Th orkell took the lett er with nervous 58 TH E DE E M S TE E — ﬁngers . He had recognised the seal it was l the seal of the insu ar Government . The letter R He came from Castle ushen . broke the seal and read

stle Ru h en J un 3 . C a s , e —I Sir, am instructed by his Excellency to beg you to come to Castletown without d and elay, to report your arrival at the Castle

o u to Madam Churchill , who will see y on behalf of the Duchess .

’

&c . I have the honour to be,

The letter was signed by the Secretary to the Governor .

What did it mean Th orkell could make nothin g of it but that in some way it boded

l - ill . In a bewi dered state of semi conscious ness he ordered that a horse should be got ready and brought round to the front . Half an hour later he had risen from an untouched breakfast and was seated in the saddle . He rode past Tynwald Hill and through TH E DEEM S TER O F MA N 59

F x d al s t o e to the outh . Twenty imes he drew up and half- reined hi s horse in another dirc o

o n . tion . But he went again He could turn

ti ni u n d . about at any e . He never t r e about

’ At two o clock that day he stood before the low gate of the Castle and pull ed at the great ll clanging be .

He seemed to be expected , and was imme diat ely led to a chamber on the north of the courty ard . The room was small and low ; it was diml y lighted by two lancet windows set deep into walls that seemed to be three yards

' a thick . The ﬂoor was covered with rush matting a harp stood near the ﬁreplace . A

Th rk ll lady rose as o e entered . She was

elderly, but her dress was youthful . Her waist was short ; her embroidered skirt was very long she wore spangled shoes , and her hair was done into a knot on the top of her

Th orkell stood before her with the mien of TH E DE E MS TE R 60 .

and a culprit . She smiled motioned him to a f seat, and sat hersel .

You have heard o f the death of one of our two Deemsters she asked .

’ Th orkell s d face whitene , and he bowed his head .

‘ A successor must soon be appointed , and the Deemster is always a Manxman he must

’ u know the lang age of the common people .

’ Th orkell s face wore a bewildered expres

’ sion . The lady s manner was very suave . The appointment is the gift of the Lord of the island , and the Duchess is asked to

’ suggest a name .

’ Th orkell s face lightened . He had regained

‘ h i s c m o su r all o p e .

The D u chess h as heard a good account of

l r M ea . you, Mr . y She is told that by your great industry and—wisdom—you have raised — ’ yourself in life become rich , in fact . The lady ’ s voice dropped to a tone of most TH E DE E M S TE R O F M A N 6 1

Th o rkell insinuating suavity . stammered

some commonplace .

M l rea Hush , Mr . y , you shall not depre

x Th e ciate yourself. Duchess has heard that you are a man of enterprise—one who does m ’ not begrudge the penny that akes the pound .

Th rk l ll o e l saw it a . He was to be made

n Deemster, but he was to buy his appoi tment . m The Duchess had lost oney of late, and the swashbuckler court she kept had lately seen

some abridgment of its gaieties .

f M l rea To be brie , Mr . y , the Duchess has half an intention of suggesting your name for

n the post , but before doi g so she wished me to see in what way your feelings lie with

’ regard to it .

’ Th orkell s little eyes twinkled , and his lips took an upward curve . He placed one hand over his breast and bent his head .

My feelings , madam , lie in one way only — ’ of . the way gratitude , he said meekly 62 TH E DEEM S TER

’ The lady s face broadened , and there was a pause . M ’ . lrea It is a great distinction, Mr y ,

i n said the lady, and she drew her breath wards . ’ ll Th orke . The greater my gratitude, said ‘ And how far would you go to show this gratitude to the Duchess

’ Th orkell Any length, madam , said , and he rose and bowed . The Duchess is at present at Bath — I would go so far, and farther, madam ,

’ f Th orkell h e arther, said , and as he spoke thrust his right hand deep into his pocket , — and there by what accident may not be said

— s it touched some coin that chinked .

“ There was another pause, and then the lady rose and held out her hand , and said in a signiﬁ c ant t one

I think , sir, I may already venture to il ’ ba you as Deemster of Man .

TH E D E EM S TER

Th orkell sat . in the saddle under the tall dim elms in the light , and his mind was busy t m with many houghts . His emory went back with something akin to tenderness to the last days of old Ewan , his father to his brother ,

Gil c ri st , and then , by a sudden transition , to the incidents of that morning at Castle

far Rushen . How in the past that morning seemed to be The last rook had cawed out its low

m o f guttural note , and the last glea daylight died off between the thick boughs of the dark h trees that pattered lightly overhead , as, T or f kell set o ff a resh .

When he arrived at Ball amon a the night

n was dark . The Archdeacon was sitti g with

’ wh o f room t h at his daughter, had not le t her

Th orkell day . , still booted and spurred , ran like a squirrel up the stairs and into ' the bed room . In twenty hot words that were ﬁred o ff like a cloud of small shot from a blunder TH E DEE MS TE E O F MA N 65

Th ork ll r e . buss , told what had occur ed His wife ’ s whi te face showed no pleasure and be

ra d i e o n t y e no surprise . Her s lence act d Thor

l e ke l as a rebuk , and when her eyes rested on his face he turned his own e yes aside . The hl Archdeacon was almost speec ess , but his

of look astonishment was eloquent , and when

Th orkell f left the room he ollowed him out . At supper the Archdeacon ’ s manner was f that o deep amity .

’ They are prompt to appoint a Deemster,

‘ u he said . Has it not str ck you as strange

t so tha the bishopric has been vacant . long

Th orkell i laughed a l ttle over his plate ,

n n it a d a swered that was strange . ‘ Maybe it only needs that a name should

’ be suggested , continued the Archdeacon.

‘ of i n That is to say, suggested by a man

ﬂ u enc e — b , a man of position y the Deemster f ’ or instance .

’ Th orkell Just that , said with a titter .

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Then there was an interchange of fu rther

m en f amity . When the two rose rom the

table the Archdeacon said , with a conscious O f —if smile, course , if you should occur you

S —if hould ever think , that is , the Deemster should ever suggest a name for the bishopric — — of course he will remember that that

—ta nill blood , in short, is thicker than water f

’ ’ h n u sht n s c ee a e . y y , as the Manxman says

‘ ’ Th orkell I will remember it , said , in a W f signiﬁcant tone , and ith a aint chuckle . i ’ Satisﬁed w th that day s work , with

f Th o rkell himsel , and with the world , then

o ff bed went to , and lay down in peace and

content , and slept the sleep of the j ust .

In due course Th orkell Mylrea became

ll m n a Deemster Ba a o . He entered upon his duties after the briefest study of the Statute t ﬂ Laws . A Manx j udge dispensed j us ice chie y l by the Breast Laws , the unwritten code ocked

hi s in own breast , and supposed to be handed TH E DE E M S TE E O F M A N 67

down from Deemster to Deemster . The popular superstition served Th o rkell in good stead there was none to challenge his know

f u ledge o jurispr dence . As soon as he was settled in his office he began to make inquiries about his brother

il c ri st i n C . He learned that after leav g Cam

’ Gil c ri st bridge had taken deacon s orders , and had become tutor to the son of an English

f C nobleman , and a terwards haplain to the

’ Th rk ll nobleman s household . o e addressed

an d hi him a letter, and received a reply, t s was the ﬁrst intercourse of the brothers since

w il c ri st the death of old E an . G had lately married he held a small livin g on one o f the remote moors of Yorkshire ; he loved his

Th orkell people and was beloved by them .

i n wrote aga n and again , and yet agai , and his letters ran throu gh every tone o f remonstrance and entreaty . The end of it was that the Deemster paid yet another visit to the lady 68 TH E DE E III S TE R

l R deputy at Cast e ushen , and the rumour passed over the island that the same potent inﬂuence that had made Th o rkell a Deemster was about to make his brother the Bishop of

Then the Archdeacon came down i n white

Ball amon a - in wrath to , and reminded his son l aw of his many obligations , touched on bene f ﬁts orgot, hinted at dark sayings and darker S ﬁ deeds , mentioned , with a igni cant accent ,

Kerr u ish the girl Mally , protested that from causes not to be named he had lost the esteem

O f his clergy and the reverence of his ﬂock , and Wou nd up with the touching assurance

0“ that on that very morning , as he rode from

Andreas , he had overheard a burly Manxman say t o the tawny - headed fellow who walked — with them both of them the scabbiest sheep

“ on the hills There goes the paz on that sold

u and s his da ghter bought her hu band .

Th orkell listened to the torrent of re TH E D E E M S TE E O F M A N 69

ro ac h es p , and then said quietly , as he turned e on his h el, Near is my shirt , but nearer is

’ n my ski .

’ The Deemster s wife held u p her head no

ft c Sh e more . A er the hristening rarely left

h n her room . Her c eeks grew thi ner, paler m they could not grow , and her eek eyes lost f their aint lustre . She spoke little , and her d interest in life seeme to be all but gone .

There was the same abj ect submission to her

sh e o f husband , but saw less him day by day .

Only the sight of her babe, when Kerry

brought it to be nursed , restored to her face i If the l ght of a ﬂeeting j oy . it stayed too W long at her breast , if it cried , if its insome

ways made her to laugh outright, the swift recoil of other feelings saddened her to melan

c h ol il r h er y , and she would put the ch d f om

t t for wi h a sigh . This wen on several months , and meantime the Deemster was too deeply immersed in secular affairs to make serious 70 TH E DE E M S TER

f note o the shadow that hung over his house . — ’ Gall s h eese ny lhi a ryayh she s going down

’ the steep places , said Kerry .

It was winter when Gil c ri st Myl rea was appointed to reach the island , but he wrote f ’ that his wi e s health was failing her , that it

t o was not unlikely that she was bear a child , and that he preferred to postpone his j ourney f until the spring . Be ore the gorse bushes on the mountains had caught their new spears of

f o f green , and be ore the ﬁshermen Peeltown had gone down to the sea for their ﬁrst

’ Th o rkell s f mackerel , wi e was lying in her

f r n last illness . She sent o her husba d and

f e bade him arewell . The De mster saw no

and e danger, he laughed at her meek adi u .

She was soon to be the mother o f another of

- his children that was all . But she shook her f head when he rallied her, and when he li ted

c o oin the little creeping, g , babbling Ewan from

’ the ﬂoor to his mother s bed , and laughed and

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’ ’ ’ ’ She s dead why , she s dead, she s dead , he cried hysterically ‘ wh y did not somebody tell me that she would die The Deemster buried his w ife by the side

e of old Ewan , under the elder tree that gr w by the wall o f the churchyard that stands over by the sea . He summoned no mourners ,

f o d and few st o with him by the open grave .

During the short funeral his horse was tied t o the cross - ti mbers o f the lych - gate, and whil e the earth was still falling in h ollow thuds

’ from the sexton s spade Th orkell got into the l sadd e and rode away .

Before sunset he waited by t h e wooden

at landing j etty Derby Haven . The old sea ’ t tub , the King Orry , made the port tha day, o and disembarked her passengers . Am ng

Gil c ri st them was the new Bishop of Man ,

M l r y ea . He looked much older for the six

a r ye rs he had been away . His tall ﬁgu e stooped heavily his thick hair fell in wave TH E DE EM S TER O F M A N 73

was lets on his shoulders , and already

sprinkled with grey ; his long cheeks were d deeply line . As he stepped from the boat on to the j etty he carried something very

tenderly in his arms . He seemed to be

alone . The brothers met with looks of constraint

and bewilderment .

Th orkell Where is your wife asked .

‘ ’ ‘ il c ri st G . She is gone , said I have

’ n f o f nothi g le t her but this , and he looked down at the burden at his breast .

’ Th orkell s It was a baby boy . face

was . whitened , and terror in his eyes 74 TH E DE E JI S TE R

R CH A PTE V .

GI L c m sr

and con sec ra t ed in England but he h ad to be in s tall ed in hi s cathed ral chur ch at Peeltown

all u r s o f ular e ee with the hono the ins d cr s .

w as m i Few The ceremony not an i pos ng one .

Manm an di d not love t h e Chur ch with a love

’ P n az on h ul s ay t o f t . az o o e . rven p , e wo d ,

’ what c an y ou exp ect from the lik e 0 tha t

’ ’ S v r d a s e y a e e no uck w n t hatc h d b a dr ke .

I t w as no merit in the eyes of t h e people

a t w as him f x t h the new Bishop sel a Man man .

‘ ’ ’ m an h y oul s ay I k hi s Aw , , t e w d , new father ,

and kn owledge o f the fat her impli ed a limi ta

’ t h e es e t t h on tion of r p c due to e s . What s TH E JI A N XJI A N ’ S BISHOP 75 hi s fami ly woul d be as ked again and agai n across the hearth that scarcely knew it s own

o f fami ly more intimately . May be some the

’ ’ ul ﬁrst that s going, wo d be the answer , and then there woul d be a laugh .

The Bishop w as enthroned by Archdeacon

a ﬁl hi s u i w Te re , who led f nct on ith what grace hi s w l all w Th orkell chagrin ou d o . watched

f - i n - n his ather law keenly duri g the ceremony,

a hi s i win l d and more th n once l ttle eyes t k e , and his lips were sucked inwards as if he

rolled a delectable morsel on his tong u e .

Archdeacon Teare was cons cious of the close

’ o f hi s s on - i n - an d ft ﬁre law s gaze, a er the

n i stallation was done, and the clergy that constituted prie sts and congregation were

e e breaking up , he approach d the D emster l “T with a benevolent smi e, and said , ell ,

’ Th orkell h ad di , we ve some sagreements , but

’ we ll all meet for peace an d harmony in

’ heaven . 76 TH E DEEM STER

l d The Deemster tittered audib y , and sai ,

’ ’ I m not so sure of that , though . N ? v o said the Archdeacon , with ele ated ‘ Wh eyebrows . y , why

Because we read in t he good Book that

’ tea rs there will be no more , Archdeacon , said

Th orkell , with a laugh like the whinny of a

The Bishop and his brother , the Deemster , got on their horses , and turned their heads towards the episcopal palace . It was late when they drove under the tall elms of

’ old Bishop s Court . The house was lit up

h f- for t eir reception . Hal blind Kerry Quayle had come over from Ball amon a to nurse the

’ Bishop s child , and to put him to bed in his

‘ - . bo new home Och , as sweet a baby y as

’ any on the island , I ll go bail , as the old body

’ s th e said aid Kerry , and Bishop patted her

' H e went arm with a gentle familiarity . up to the little room where the child lay asleep , ’ TH E M A N XM A N S BI S HO P 77 and stooped over the cot and touched with his t lips the sof lips that breathed gently . The dignity of the Bishop as he stood four hours

’ f the o f h ad be ore under roof St . German s sat less well on this silent man than the tender ness of the father by the side of his motherless

Th ork ll as e w in great spirits that night .

Twenty times he drank to the health of the new Bishop twenty times he reminded him

of his o wn gracious ofﬁces towards securing

the bishopric to one of his own family . Gil

few crist smiled and responded in words . He d di not deceive himself ; his eyes were open .

He knew that Th orkell had not been so anxious to make him a Bishop as to prevent a place of honour and emolument from going to anyone less near to h imself than his own

’ Th o rkell brother . Near is my shirt , as had

‘ ’ told the Archdeacon, but nearer is my skin .

“ Next day the Bishop lost no time in 78 TH E DEEMSTER

settling to his work . His people watched f f him closely . He ound his palace in a orlorn

and and dilapidated state , the episcopal de m esne , which was about a square mile of

o f glebe , as fallow as the rough top the

m O ne mountains . The y value of this bishopric 5 OOZ. was rather less than a y ear, but out of this income he set to work to fence and drain

his lands , plant trees , and restore his house to f ‘ com ort if not to stateliness . I ﬁnd my

‘ Patmos in ruins he said , and that will oblige me to interrupt my charity to the poor in

’ some measure . He assumed none of the social dignity of

a Bishop . He had no carriage and no horse for riding . When he made his pastoral visi

n f t at io s he went a oot . The j ourney to Douglas he called crossing the Pyrenees ; and he likened the toilsome t ramp across the heavy Curraghs from Bishop ’ s Court to Kirk Andreas to the passing of pilgrims across a desert .

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C ’ maltster, at their head , ame up to Bishop s

c ourt to complain of the schoolmaster ap

pointed to Kirk Michael . According to the mal contents the schoolmaster was unable to divide

his syllables , and his home , which was the

S choolhouse also , was too remote for the con i ‘ v en enc e of the children . So we beseech d ’ J your Lor ship , said little abez , who was ‘ w spokesman , to allo us a ﬁt person to dis

fﬁ a nd with su bmission we will charge the o ce ,

’ r mm d t ec o en one. The Bishop ook in the

’ situation at a glance Jabez s last words h ad

not let the cat out of the bag , and it could be

said to be a Manx cat , for it had a most pro i i t d g ou s tail . Next day the Bishop wen to

t n the school , examined master and scholars , he l ‘ cal ed the petitioners together and said , I

find u , that James Q irk is qualified to teach an I English school , and cannot remove him ; but I am of your opinion that his houseis in a remote part of the parish and I shall expect ’ TH E fll A N XM A N S BI S H O P 81

the parishioners to b uild a new schoolhouse

in a convenient place , near the church , within w a reasonable time , other ise the bounty can

’ not be continu ed to them . The answer

th e staggered petitioners , but they were men

with the saving grace of humour , and through

of l J w w the mouth ittle abez . hich t isted into f curious lines , they orthwith signiﬁed to his Lordship their earnest desire to meet his wish by building their schoolhouse within the

churchyard . Though a zealous upholder of Church t authori y , the Bishop was known to temper justice with mercy . He had not been a month in the diocese when his sumner told

f o f him a pain ul story hard penance . A young girl from near Peeltown had been pre

sented for incontinence , and with the partner

of her crime she had been o rdered to stand

s ix o f Sundays at the door six churches .

The man , who was rich , had compounded

VO 11 . I o 82 TH E DEEMSTER

with the Archdeacon , paying six pounds for

and f w exemption , being thence or ard no more

n mentio ed ; but the woman , being penniless

d f h ad and appalled at the isgrace be ore her, f m ﬂed ro the island . The Archdeacon had

learned her whereabouts in England , and had written to the minister of the place to acqu aint

’ him that she was under the Church s censure . l d f The minister , on his part , had ai be ore her the terror of her position if she died out of communion with God s people . She resisted

u all appeals ntil her time came , and then , in

of her travail , the force the idea had worked h u s e . pon her, and could resist it no more

When she rose from bed she returned v ol un n t aril y to the island , with the sign of her

m n sha e at her breast , to undergo the pe ance of her crime . She had stood three Sundays at the doors of three churches , but her health was feeble , and she could scarcely carry her

sh e child , so weak was , and so long the ’ TH E MANXMAN S BISHOP 83

in in d istances from her lodg g Peeltown . Let

’ n her be pardoned the rest of her pena ce , said

’ the Bishop . The Church s censure was not passed on her t o afﬂict her with overmuch

’ shame or sorrow .

It was not until years afterwards that th e

’ Bis hop learned the full facts of the woman s

si niﬁ case , and comprehended the terrible g

o f cance her punishment . She was Mally

K i s erru h .

of The island was in the province York , and bound by the English canons , but the m Bishop ade his own canons , and none were

o f hi s heard to demur . Some judgments rd were strange , but all leaned towa s the

. G ke weaker side A man named Quayle the y , a blusterous fellow, a thorn in the side of

f i o f every o ﬁcial w thin a radius miles , died f ll a ter a long i ness , leaving nothing to a

legitimate son who had nursed him affec t i onat el y . This seemed to the Bishop to be 84 TH E DEEMS TE R

s contrary to natural piety , and in the exerci e of his authority he appointed the son an executor with the others . Quayle the younger lived , as we shall see , to return evil for the

’ Bishop s good . A rich man of bad repute ,

Th orm od M l ec h reest y , died intestate , leaving i an llegitimate son . The Bishop ordered the ordinary to put aside a sum of money out of the estate for the maintenance and education o f Th orkell the child . But came down in the

of name the civil power , reversed the spiritual

d n j u gment , ordered that the whole belo gings

' of the deceased shoul d be c onﬁ sc at ed t o the

o f f - Lord the Isle , and le t the base begotten to

a ch rity . We shall also see that the bastard

’ f r Th orkell s returned good o evil .

The canons and customs of Bishop Myl rea — not only leaned sometimes with too great — w indulgence to the eaker side , but they

supposed faith , in the people by allowing a d voluntary oath as evi ence , and this made TH E M A N XMA N ’ S BISHOP 85

false s wearing a terror . Except in the degree

of superstition , he encouraged belief in all its

H e m bu t forms . trusted an oath i plicitly , no

h im hi s man ever heard gainsay yea or nay .

A hoary old dog known as Billy the Gawk , i who had never worked with n living memory,

‘ " who lived as they said on the houses , and

frequented the pot - house with more than the

regularity of religious observance , was not long in ﬁnding out that Bishop ’ s Court had f awakened rom its protracted sleep . The

’ Bishop had been abroad for hi s morning s

ramble , and sitting on the sunny side of a d high turf he ge looking vacantly out to sea, f n hi m he heard ootsteps on the road behi d ,

of and then a dialogue , which this is a brief summary

‘ Co ort Going up to the , eh Ah , well ,

’ ’ ‘ it s plenty that s there to take the edge off

your stomach ; plenty , plenty , and a rael

’ welcome too . 86 TH E DEEMSTER

‘ ’ ’ n Ah , it s not the stomach that s botheri g

’

. narves narves me It s the , boy, the , and a

’ d rop of the rael stuff is worth a Jew s eye for

st u dd i n f y g a man a ter a night of it , as the

’ saying is .

‘ ’ aw w ell Aw , Billy , Billy, , well , well .

’ The conversation died of o n the Bishop s ear in a loud roystering laugh and a low gurgle

a s undertone . Half an hour later Billy the Gawk stood before the Bishop inside the gates of Bishop ’ s

’ t o ld Cour . The dog s head hung low, his

battered hat was over his eyes , and both his

trembling hands leaned heavily o n his thick

blackthorn stick . ‘ m ? ’ And how do you live , y man asked the Bishop . ‘ I ’ m getting a bite here and a sup there ,

’ ’ and I ve had terrible little but a bi t 0 barley

’ bread since yesterday morning , said the

Gawk .

88 TH E DEEMSTER

he was , and remembered what had occurred

an unaccustomed sensation took possession of

him , and he stole away unobserved . The hoary old dog was never seen again at Bishop s

Court .

B , But if illy never came again , his kith and

f u It kin came req ently . became a j est that the Bishop kept the beggars from every house

t but his own , and tha no one else could get a

beggar . He had a book which he called his

‘ ’ u Pau er um Matric la p , in which he entered the names of his pensioners , with notes of

th e o f their circumstances . He kne w all bits — ’ family history when Jemmy C orkell s wife

R o was down with lumbago , and when bbie

Quirk was to kill his little pig . Billy the Gawk was n ot alone in thinking

that he could outwit the Bishop . When the

Bishop wanted a new pair of boots or a new coat,the tailor or shoemaker came to Bishop ’ s ’ TH E MA N XM A N S BISHOP 89

u o f Co rt, and was kept there until his j ob work t f was ﬁnished . The ﬁrs winter a ter his ar

in rival his Patmos , he wanted a cloak , and

J Gawne fo x sent for abez , the sleek little who had been spokesman for the conspirators J against James Quirk , the schoolmaster . abez

and r had cut out the cloak , was prepa ing it for a truly gorgeous adornment when the Bishop ordered him to put merely a button

t o and a loop on it keep it together . Jabez thereupon dropped his cloth and held up his hands where he sat cross - legged on the kitchen

m v o f dresser, and exclai ed with e ery accent agg rieved surprise m My Lord , what would beco e of the poor b utton -makers and their families if everyone ordered his tailor in that way

' H o w ? so , Jabez

‘ ’ Why, they would be starved outright . J ? Do you say so , abez

’ Yes , my Lord , I do . 90 TH E DEEMS TE R

‘ J ’ Then button it all over, abez , said the

Bishop . The Deems ter was present at that inter w vie , and went away from it tittering audibly .

’ ’ Give to the raven and he ll come again , he muttered . ‘ I forgo t that poor Jabez would have his

’ buttons in his breeches pocket , said the

Bishop . The Manxman had not yet made up his mind concerning the composite character of

M l rea Bishop y , his dignity and his humility ,

his reserve and his simplicity, when a great event settled for the Manxman ’ s heart the

’ problem that had been too much for his head . This was no less a catastrophe than a general

e famine . It cam upon the island in the second

’ year of the Bishop s residence , and was the

cause o f many changes . One of the changes was that the Bishop came to be regarded by his people with the reverence of Israel for

92 TH E DEEM STER

u i n C rragh , and left bleached on the wh teni g mould the poor, thin , dwarfed corn , that could f ’ ne ver be reaped . But the glebe o Bishop s

r s Court gave fai crop , and when the people cried in the grip of their necessity the Bishop

sent round a pastoral letter to his clergy , say ing that he had eight hundred b u shels of

n wheat , barley , and oats more tha his house

hold required . Then there came from the

north and the south , the east and the west, long straggling troops of buyers with little or

’ no money to buy , and Bishop s Court was o turned into a public market . The Bish p sold to those who had money at the price that corn

f f be etched before the amine , and in his barn

hind the house he kept a ches t for those who came in at the back with nothing but a sack

in their hands . Once a day he inspected the

fre chest, and when it was low , which was

quently , he replenished it , and when it was

and high , which was rarely , he smiled , said ’ TH E MANXMAN S BISHOP 93 that God was turning away his displeasure from his people . The eight hundred bushels were at an end i f in a month , and st ll the amine continued .

Then the Bishop bou ght eight . hundred other bushels wheat at ten shillings , barley at six

n o i shilli gs , and ats at four sh llings , and sold f them at hal these prices . He gave orders t hat the bushel o f t h e poor man was not to be

ft - u stroked , but le in heaped p measure . A second month went by the second

eight hundred bushels were consumed , and the

famine showed no abatement . The Bishop

for waited vessels from Liverpool , but no l t vesse s came . He was a poor pries , with a t great title , and he had li tle money ; but he

wrote to England asking for a thousand bushels

of d of grain and ﬁve hun red kischen potatoes , and promised to pay at six days after the next

o f w n annual revenue . A week weary aiti g

ensued , and every day the Bishop cheered the 94 TH E DEEMS TE E

haggard folk that came to Bishop ’ s Court with

accounts o f the provisions that were coming and every day they went up on to the head of

the hill , and strained their bleared eyes sea f ward o r the sails of an English ship . When i ‘ K patience was worn to despa r , the old ing Orry ’ brought the Bishop a letter saying that t the drought had been general , hat the famine

f h n was elt throug out the ki gdom , and that an embargo had been put on all food to forbid traders to send i t from English shores. Then the voice o f the hungry multitudes went up f ‘ in one deep cry o pain . The hunger is on

’ ‘ ’ a us , they moaned . Poor once , poor for ever, they muttered ; and the voice of the Bishop was silent . Just at “ that moment a further disaster h t reatened the people . Their cattle , which they could not sell , they had grazed on the

of mountains , and the milk the cows had been

f o f the chief ood the children , and the wool of

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n after, a light cart was see to follow the high road to the glen beyond Ballaugh and then turn u p towards the mountains by the cart track . The people who were grazing their cattle on the hills came d own and gathered f with the people of the valleys at the oot , and there were dark faces and ﬁ rm - set lips among

o them , and hot words and deep aths were

’ ’

. off heard Let s to the Bishop , said one , and ’ f then went to Bishop s Court . Hal an hour later the Bishop came from Bishop ’ s Court at the head of a draggled company of men , and his face was white and hard . They overtook

u the cart halfway up the side of the mo ntain , d and the Bishop called on the river to stop , and asked what he carried , and where he was

- n h e goi g . The man answered that had pro v isions for the Governor , the Deemster, and

E n u est the Grand q , who were surveying the tops of the mountains .

The Bishop looked round , and his lip was ’ TH E M A N XIWA N S BISHOP 97

r l set , and his nost i s quivered . Can any man lend me a knife ? ’ he asked with a strained quietness . i h im A huge kn fe was handed to , such as shepherds carry in the long legs of their boots . He stepped to the cart and ripped up the

ft harness , which was rope harness , the sha s f h fell and the horse was ree . T en the Bishop turned to the driver and said very quietly ‘ h W ere do you live , my man ‘ l ’ At Su by, my Lord , said the man , trem f bling with ear .

You shall have leather harness to - mor

o n hi s Then the Bishop went , soiled and

e n r draggl d company followi g him , the ca t

i n t lying helpless the car track behind them .

When they got to the top o f the mountain

' they could see the Govern or and the Deemster and their associates stretching the chain in the m purple distance . The Bishop ade in their

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direction , and when he came up with them he said

Gentlemen, no food will reach you on the

mountains to - day ; the harness o f your cart

has been cut , and cart and provisions are

n lyi g on the hill side .

Th o rkell At this turned white with wrath ,

and clenched h i s ﬁsts and stamped his foot on f the tur , and looked piercingly into the faces ’ f of the Bishop s ollowers . ’ ’ h As sure as I m Deemster , he said wit

‘ n s an oath , the man who has do e thi shall

’ ff l et — su er . Don t him deceive himself no o ne f , not even the Bishop himsel , shall step i n between that man and t h e punishment of

’ t h e law . w The Bishop listened ith calmness , and

‘ Th orkell il then said , , the Bishop w l not

u intercede for him . Punish him if yo

’ ‘ A nd so by God I will, cried the Deem

1 00 TH E DEEMSTER the next morning the news spread through the island that a ship laden with barley had put f m in ro bad weather at Douglas Harbour .

And a terrible ' wonderful sight of corn

’ fo r plenty all , plenty , plenty , was the word n ’ that went rou d . In three hours time hun

‘ dreds o f men and women trooped down to the quay with money to buy . To all comers the f e master shook his head , and re us d to sell . ‘ l — ’ Sel , man sell , sell , they cried .

’ ’ I can t sell . The cargo is not mine . I m f ’ m a poor man mysel , said the aster .

‘ ’ ’ ’ “ Well , and what s that it s sayin , When

one poor man helps another poor man, God laughs .

The Bishop came to the ship s side ‘ and

tried to treat for the cargo .

‘ ’ I ve given bond to land it all at White

’ ' m n . have , said the aster

’ Then the people s faces grew black . and

o deep aths rose to their lips , and they turned ’ ’ TH E AI A N XMA N S BISHOP 1 o r

' ’ and looked . into each other s eyes in their i u — mpotent rage . The hunger is on s we can ’ t starve—let every herring hang by its

’ ’ — s ' own gill let board her, they muttered

among themselves .

An d t . the Bishop heard heir threats . My

’ ‘ t of hi people , he said , wha will become t s poor island unl ess God averts his awful j udg

n ments , o ly God himself can know but this

m an good has given his bond , and let us not

’ ’ fu bring on our heads God s rther displeasure .

There was a murmur of discontent , and

i ' then one long s gh of patient endurance, and if then the Bishop l ted his hands , and down on their knees on the quay the people with fam

i sh ed ll faces fell around the ta , drooping ﬁgure

of the man of God, and from parched throats ,

: and hearts well nigh as dry , sent up a great cry to heaven to grant them succour lest they

should die .

f ‘ About a week a terwards , another ship put 1 0 2 TH E DEEM STER

i n by contrary winds at Castletown . It had

a cargo of Welsh oats bound to Dumfries , on t h e order of the Provost . The contrary wind s c n onti ued , and the corn began to heat and

s . poil The hungry populace, enraged by f amine , called on the master to sell . He was

powerless . Then the Bishop walked over his

saw for Pyrenees , and that the food which hi s people hungered was perishin g before

‘ ’ their eyes . When the master said No to

h im m h ow , as to others , he re embered in

old time David , being an hungered , did that which was not lawful in eating of the shew b w read , and straight ay he went up to Castle

R n o f re ushen , got a compa y musketeers , t ’ urned with them to the ship s side , boarded

t h e w ship , put the master and cre in irons ,

and took possession of the corn . What wild j oy among the people What s houts were heard what tears rolled down

the stony cheeks of stern men !

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of hour, the serenest saint in the hour light h and peace . T at hoary old dog, Billy the

Gawk , took his knife and scratched

and the y ear of the Lord on the inside o f his cupboard door to record the advent of

M l rea Bishop y . m m A ason fro Ireland , a Catholic named

d a Patrick Looney , was that y at work build

ing the square tower of the church of the

- saw market place , and when he the Bishop pass under him he went down o n h is knees on :

the scaffold and dropped h is head fo r the good

’ man s blessing .

A littlegirl o f seven with sunny eyes and

s yellow hair tood by at that moment , and for

’ love of the child s happy face the Bishop

uc a ‘ to hed her he d and said God bless you , t ’ my swee child . The little one lifted her innocent eyes to his eyes, and answered with a curtsey , And

’ God bless you , too , sir . ’ TH E MANXMAN S BISHOP 1 0 5

’ Thank you , child , thank you , said the

n Bishop . I do not doubt that your blessi g

’ as will be as good mine .

Gil c ri st M lrea Such was y , Bishop of

H e l Man . needed all his strength and a l his

e t nderness for the trials that were to come . 1 0 6 TH E DEEMSTER

R CHAPTE VI .

’

TH E c osr N E ST A T Brsnor s C O URT .

TH E children of the Deemster and Bishop

spent the ﬁrst ﬁve years as o ne little brood in

’ the cosy nest at Bishop s Court . The arrange

ment was agreeable to both brothers while it

Ball amona lasted . It left a silent place , but

the master recked little of that . The Deem

‘

ster kept no company or next to none . He

dismissed all his domestics except one, and

H omm - y beg, who had been gardener hitherto ,

Ball am n became groom as well . The new o a

began to gather a musty odour, and the old

Ballamon a took the moss on its wall and the f lichen on its roo . The Deemster rose early f and went late to bed . Much o the day was spent in the saddle passing from town to town

1 0 8 TH E DEEMSTER

’ Meantime Bishop s Court was musical

’ th e o with children s voices , and with patter tiny feet that ferreted out every nook and

“ . a cranny of the old place . There was Ew n

’ the Deemster s son , a slight , sensitive boy , who listened to you with his head aslant , and

a with absent looks . There was wee Mon ,

’ t h e Ewan s meek sister , with the big eyes and

n an d quiet ways , who liked to be fo dled , would cry sometimes when no one knew why . — — And then there was Daniel Danny Dan, ’ w l the Bishop s boy, a bra litt e rogue , with a

was ' slice of the man in him , as broad as he f long, with tousled fair head and ace usually

d n smu ged , laughi g a good deal and not cry ing over much , loving a good tug or a delight

ful bit of a ﬁght , and always feeling high

n n . disdai at bei g kissed And the Bishop , God bless him ! was father and mother both to h l the motherless brood , thoug Kerry Quay e

was e. kept as nurs He would tell a story, or ’ TH E COSY NEST A T BISHOP S CO URT 1 09

n perhaps si g one , while Mona sat on his knee with her pretty head resting on his breast , and Ewan held on to his chair with his shy

head hanging on his own shoulder, and his

in eyes looking out at the window, listening

t ently in his queer little absent way . And w hen Dan , in lordly contempt of such doings ,

would break in on song or story, and tear his

way up the back Of the chair to the back of

t h e Bishop , Mona would be set on her feet , and

t h e biggest baby of the four there present

w ould slide down on to his hands and knees and creep along the ﬂoor with the great little

man astride him , and whinny like a horse , or

perhaps bark like a dog , and pretend to leap

’ the four - bar gate of the baby s chair tumbled

down on its side . And when Dan would

i l de from his saddle , and the restless horse man would turn coachman and tug the mane

’ o f hi s all steed , and the Bishop s long hair w f w h ould tumble over his ace, hat s rieks of 1 1 0 TH E DEEMSTER

on laughter , what rolling the ground and tossing up of bare legs And then when

supper time came , and the porridge would be

' a in brought in , and little Mon would beg to

whimper because she had to eat it , and Ewan to fret because it was barley porridge and not

oaten cake , and Dan to devour his share with

silent industry , and then bellow for more than

was good for him , what schemes the good

s Bishop resorted to , what promise he made , what crafty tricks he learned , what an artful old pate his simple head suddenly became

And then , when Kerry came with the tub and t h e h towels , and t ree little naked bodies had

to be bathed , and the Bishop stole away to

’ his unﬁnished sermon , and little Mona s wet

’ s r s hand clung to Ker y dress , and Ewan , standing bolt upright in the three inches of te wa r, blubbered while he rubbed the sponge

over an inch and a half of one cheek , and Dan sat on his haunches in the bottom of the tub

1 1 2 TH E DEEMSTER

o r drowsily , a baby rhyme that ran a line or

two and stopped , and at length the long deep il quiet and the s ence of sleep , and the Bishop

going off on tiptoe to the dusky room with

’ - the shaded lamp , and to morrow s sermon

- lying half written beneath it .

And so ﬁve tearing, romping y ears went

and by , though they were the years of the

i of fam ne and the pestilence , and many another dark cloud that hung blackest over Bishop ’ s

Court , a world of happiness was crowded into them . Then when Ewan was six years old, and Danny and Mona were ﬁve , and the boys were buttoning their own corduroys, the

Deemster came over from Ball amon a and

- broke up the little nest of humming birds .

’ ‘ Gilc ri st Th orkell du n , said , y are ruini g

the children , and I must take my own away

’ from you . The Bishop ’ s grave face grew suddenly

‘ white, and when, after a pause he said , No, ’ TH E COS Y [ VEST A T BISHOP S CO URT 1 1 3

’ ’ Th orkell no , , you don t mean that , there was

in a tremor his deep voice .

‘ ‘ I do mean it , said the Deemster . Let a father treat his children as the world will treat them when they have nothing bu t the

’ for f - world their ather that s my maxim , and

’ ’ I ll act up to it with my own .

’ ’ t Th o rkell That s hard trea ment , , said

to the Bishop , and his eyes began ﬁll .

’ Spare the rod , spoil the child , said h k ll T or e .

‘ ’ ’ Maybe you re right , said the Bishop in

a quivering voice , and he could say no more . .

But the Deemster was as good as his word .

Ballam ona Ewan and Mona were removed to .

There they had no nurse , and shifted a good

deal fo r themselves . They ate oaten cake and

barley porridge three times a day , and that

was to build up their bone and brain ; they m were bathed in cold water su mer and winter , and that was to make them hardy they

V O L . I . 1 1 4 TH E DEEMSTER

wore frocks with low necks , and that was to

strengthen their lungs ; they went to bed without a light and fell asleep while trembling

’ o in each ther s arms , and that was to make them brave and prevent them from becoming

superstitious .

If the Spirit and health o f the little ones did not sink under their Spartan training it

was because Nature was stronger than custom , and because God is very good to the bruised hearts of children . They did not laugh too loud when the Deemster was near, and they were never seen to pull his vest , or to tug him hi by his hair, or to ride across his back , w ch was never known to stoop low for their little legs to mount . The house was not much

rt o noisier, or di ier , or less rderly for their presence ; they did not ﬁll it with their

o r o u t voices , tumble it of its propriety with b ’ their usy ﬁngers , as with Cousin Danny s powerful assistance they had ﬁlled and tum

1 1 6 TH E DEEMSTE R

and would hang suddenly , the sunshine would f f straightway die out o her laughing ace . When the Bishop lost the Deemster ’ s children he found a great void in his heart ; but little Danny troubled his big head not at

n all about the cha ge that had taken place . d He laughed just as lou , and never cried at

n n all , and when he awoke in the mor i g and f h his cousins were not there , their place ort

w w a with kne them no more . In a vague y h he missed his playmates , but t at only meant that the Bishop had to be his playmate even more than before , and the Bishop was nothing loath . Away they ran through the copse

a if together, these boon comp nions , and the

Bishop hid behind a tree, of course Danny if found him , and it was Danny that hid , of

course the Bishop searched high and low , and never o nce heard the merry titter that came

’ from behind the gorse bush that was arm s

f o length away, until, with a burst laughter, ’ TH E COS Y NEST A T BISHOP S CO URT 1 17

a n h im D n y leapt out on like an avalanche .

’ for They talked one j argon , too , Danny s

industrious tongue could not say its w , and

‘ ’ it made an s of its f. H o w many heels has

’ your cart got , carter Sour . Very srosty

’ - W to day , master . ell , then , come in to the

In a strange and uncon scious way the

Bishop developed a sort of physical afﬁnity with this sworn ally . When no sound seemed to break the silence he could hear the little man ’ s cry through three stout stone walls and

o f f up two ﬂights stairs . If the child ell and

f f e hurt himsel hal a mile from the hous , the

Bishop at home felt as if he had himself dropped on a sharp stone and cut his knee .

If he clambered t o the top of a high wall that was out of sight, the Bishop in his study f elt dizzy . But extraordinary as was this afﬁnity o f the Bishop and his boy, the intercourse that 1 1 8 TH E DEEMSTER subsisted between Danny and his nurse was yet more marvellous . The Bishop had merely a prescience of disaster threatening his darling

o f but Kerry seemed , by an exercise some

’ c w nameless faculty , to know the hild s here

at of d f abouts any moment ay or night . Hal

o f o f blind at the time the birth little Ewan ,

- Kerry Quayle had grown stone blind since , and this extraordinary power was in truth her second sight . It was conﬁned to Danny, her nursling, but over his movements it was an absolute gift .

‘ ’ Och , she cried , leaping up from the

‘ ’ - w spinning heel, the wee craythur s into the

’ ’ chapel , as the sayin is . ‘ Impossible 1 the Bishop answered

‘ ’ ’ I ve only this moment locked the door . But Kerry and the Bishop went to the

for f fu chapel to search him , and ound the gi tive , who had clambered in through an open window, lighting the candle at the reading

1 20 TH E DEEMSTER

s hown signs of weakness . To do this he h ad a m need to remove his spect cles , and he set the

d o n own the table by his hand . Danny watched these proceedings with a roguish

’ look , and when the Bishop s face was in the

bowl he whipped up th e spectacles and pushed them down his neck between his frock and his ff breast . With a whirr and a pu the Bishop f f shook the water rom his ace and dried it , and when the lash comb had tossed back his long hair he stretched h i s hand out for his

spectacles . He could not feel them , and when

n he looked he could not see them , and the

a for he c lled on Danny to search them , and straightway the rogue was on hands and ' knees hunting in every possible and impo s But m sible place . Danny could not ﬁnd the ,

t fo r it s f not he . Convoca ion was waiting chie ,

not but the spectacles could be found , and the

for Bishop , all bookish services , was blinder than a bat without them . High and low, up ’ TH E COS Y N EST A T BI S H O P S CO URT 1 2 1

and down on every table , under every paper , into every pocket, and still no spectacles . At length the Bishop paused and looked steadily into the eyes o f the little man sitting on his haunches and tittering audibly .

‘ Where are the glasses

Danny laughed very loud .

Where are my glasses , Danny veg l Danny veg laughed sti l louder .

There was nothing to be made o f an w answer like that , so do n on his knees went

the Bishop again to see if the rogue had

hidden the spectacles beneath the hearthrug ,

o f or under the seat the settle, or inside the

- th e m shaving pot on the hearth . And all ti e

u Danny, with his hands clasped nder his e i haunch s , hopped about the room l ke a frog

with great starry eyes , and crowed and laughed til l his face grew scarlet and the

hi s tears trickled down cheeks .

Blind Kerry came to say that the gentle 1 22 TH E DEEMSTER men wanted to know when the Bishop would

was be with them , as the saying and two minutes afterwards the Bishop strode into

n o f the library through a li e his clergy , who rose as he entered , and bowed to him in silence when his tall ﬁgure bent slightly to

o f each them in turn .

‘ ’ fo r d Your pardon , gentlemen , this elay , f he said , gravely, and then he settled himsel

of at the head the table . Hardly had the clergy taken their seats when the door of th e room was dashed open

‘ i a l ordl w th y bang , and into the muggy room , w t made darker still by t en y long black coats , there shot a gleam of lau ghing sunshine

f u Danny himsel , at a hop , skip , and a j mp , with a pair of spectacles perched insecurely on the sliding bridge of his diminutive nose .

A d a and The rchdeacon was there that y , when the intruder had been evicted by blind

1 24 TH E B E E M S TE E

The Bishop bent his head and did not answer . Once in a way d uring these early years

Bi sli o Ball amona the p took Danny across to , and then the two little exiles in their father’ s

f m of house , banished ro the place love, would

’ u r sh into the Bishop s arms , Mona at his w chin , E an with hands clasped about his leg and ﬂ ax en head against the great seals that

n - hu g from his fob pocket . But as for Danny

h i s and cousins , and the cousins and Danny , they usually stood awhile and inspected each o ther with that solemnity and aloofness which is one of the phenomena of child manners ,

o f and then , when the reserve the three hard t li tle faces had been softened by a smile, they would forthwith rush at each other with mighty clenched ﬁsts and pitch into one another for ﬁve minutes together, amid a

n I . chorus of squeals . this form of salutation

Dann w as f y never known to ail , and as he ’ TH E COS Y NEST A T BISHOP S CO URT 1 2 5 was too much of a man to limit his greeting

al to Ewan , he ways pitched into Mona with i the same masculine impartial ty .

But the time came again when the saluta

for th e tion was unnecessary , y were sent to school together , and they saw each other

o ne daily . There was only school to which they could be sent , and that was the parish

sm was school , the a e that taught by James

‘ ’ Quirk , who could not divide his syllables ,

u o f Gawne according to the acco nt Jabez , the i ta lor . The parishioners had built their new

schoolhouse near the church , and it lay about midway between Bishop ’ s Court and Balla

mona . It was also about half way down the

road that led to the sea , and that was a

- proximity of never ending delight . After school on the long summer evenings the scholars would troop down to the shore in

t of one tumul uous company , the son the 1 26 TH E DEEMSTER

of Bishop with the son the cobbler, the Deemster ’ s little girl with the big girl of

. R Jabez , who sent his child on charity agged

and well clad , clean and dirty, and the biggest

‘ ’ lad rigging the smallest , and not caring a

’ ha porth ifhis name was the name of the Deem f ster o r the name o Billy the Gawk . Hand

be in hand , Danny and Ewan , with Mona

a tween , would skip and caper along the s nds down to where the grey rocks of the head jutted out into the sea ' and bounded the uni

verse ; Mona prattling and singing, shaking

o ut her wavy hair to the wind , dragging

Danny aside to look at a seaweed , and pulling i Ewan to look at a shell, tripp ng down to the ’ il water s edge , unt the big bearded waves

touched her boots , and then back once more

h - t - f with a alf frigh ened , half a fected, laughter

loaded scream . Then the boys would strip

and bathe , and Mona, being only a woman ,

w ’ o ould mind the men s cl thes , or they would

1 28 TH E DE E I WS TE R shouting for pure devilment above the plash of the water .

‘ ’ for Aw , man, it s all the happy the lad

uill eash feels inside , said Billy Q .

Danny and Billy Qu illeash were sworn

- chums , and the little sand boy learned all the

’ old salt s racy sayings , and went home to

’ off f Bishop s Court and ﬁred them at his ather .

’ ’ There s a storm coming , the Bishop said

n one day, looking up at the scuddi g clouds .

‘ ’ A a y , y , said Danny , with his small eye

‘ ’ off askew, the long cat s tail was going at a

now slant awhile ago , and the round thick

’ ‘ n skate yonder is ha ging mortal low . The

’ wind is rising , the Bishop said on another

‘ ’ A u n th e ‘ O r . C e s occasion y , Davy s p tti g on pp " for the parson , said the young heretic . l Schoo , too , was only another playground to Danny, a little less tumultuous but no less delightful than the shore . The schoolmaster had grown very deaf since the days when the ’ TH E COS Y [ VEST A T BISHOP S CO URT 1 29

Bishop pronounced him qualiﬁed to teach an h f English school . T is dea ness he did his best

for t to conceal , he had a lively recollec ion of

f cf n h e the dissatis action the parishio ers , and had a natural u nwillingness to lose his bread

a and butter . But his schol rs were not easily

d a hoodwinked , and Danny, the ring young

o n m i dog, would play the aster s nﬁrmity .

‘ ’ Spell me the word arithmetic , the school master might ask when the boys were ranged about his desk in class . And Danny would

w f i i e ans er with a ace of trag c solemnity , Tw c

’ ‘ o n t wo u e . are , twice two are fo r Very

’ good , the schoolmaster would reply . And now, sir , repeat me your multiplication table ’ hi w m . r t ice ti es And then , w le the maste

if of held his head aside , as in the act intent

r listening, and the other boys twisted thei i faces to h de their grins or sniggered openly,

f o f d Danny, still with the ace a ju ge, would

a th e li i repeat a paraphr se of fami ar l ttle hymn ,

VO L . I . 1 3 0 TH E B E E M S TE E

‘ Jemmy was a Welshman , Jemmy was a f ‘ ’ thie , Jemmy Don t speak so fast,

’ sir, say your ﬁgures more plainly , the school master would interrupt . And Danny would begin again with a more explicit enun

‘ c i at i on , Jemmy Quirk was a Welshman, Then the sniggers and the s t norts would rise to a tumul . And down m ’ would come the aster s cane on the desk .

‘ Silence, boys , and let the boy say his table .

Some of 1 you big lads might take example by

him , and be none the worse . Go on, Daniel — you are quite right so far twice ﬁve are ten , twice six There was one lad in the school who could

of not see the humour the situation , a slim , quiet boy, only a little older than Danny, but

a o f h im a long way ahe d in learning, and one evening this solemn youngster hung behind when school was breaking up , and blurted out the mischief to the schoolmaster . He did not

1 32 TH E DEEMSTER

In another instant an old woman hobbled

o f out the cottage on a stick , and with that

weapon she made for Danny, and gave him

: sundry hard raps on the back and head .

‘ ’ ‘ off Och , the craythur, she cried , get — — — with y e the damon extraordinary wo uld

’ — ’ the Lord think it now i t s in the breed of

’ e— off o r y get , I ll break every bone in your

’ skin . Danny paid as little heed to the old

’ w h u woman s blo s as to her t reats , and was p with his ﬁst for the twentieth time to come down on the craven traitor who bellowed in w ’ his grip , hen all at once a horse s feet were . tramping about their limbs where they f struggled in the road , and a stern voice rom

‘ over their heads shouted , Stop , stop , or must I bring the Whip across your ﬂanks

It was the Deemster . Danny fell aside on

old the right of the horse, and the woman t and the boy on the lef . ’ TH E COS Y NEST A T BISHOP S C O UE T 1 33

What does this mean asked the Deem

ster, turning to his nephew but Danny stood i there pant ng, his eyes like ﬁre , his ﬁsts

u n k clenched , his kn ckles standi g out li e ribs

of steel , and he made no answer . Who is this blubbering coward asked

the Deemster, pointing with a contemptuous

gestu re to the boy half hidden by the old

’ woman s dress .

a ? . Cow rd , is it said the woman Coward , you say

Kerru i sh Who is the brat , Mrs . said

the Deemster , sharply .

Kerrui sh for w as At that Mrs . it she ,

f o ff pulled the boy rom behind her, plucked

h i s f hat , ran her wrinkled hand over his ore

head to his hair, and held up his face and

‘ Look at him , Deemster look at him . ’ f You don t come this way o ten , but look at l ’ him whi e you re here . Did you ever see his 1 34 TH E DEEMSTER picture before ? Never ? Never see a face like that No Not when you look in the glass , Deemster

Get into the house, woman , said the

Deemster , in a low , thick tone, and , so saying , he put the Spurs to his horse .

‘ ’ As for this young demon here , said the o ld hi i woman , pus ng the boy back and po nt

‘ ’ i n g with her stick at Danny , he ll have his

o n u — re heel yo r neck yet, Deemster and

’ ’ member the word I m saying .

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and h s ake , and roll his head between his

shoulders , then give the boy a slap on his

hindmost part, accompanied by a lusty name ,

and ﬁnally rummage fo r something in

pocket , and smuggle that something into

’ n you g rascal s palm .

Danny would be about ﬁfteen years of

of and f o f a lump a lad , there ore out the

- of u leading strings his nurse , Kerry Q ayle ,

when he concocted a most audacious scheme ,

whereof Kerry was the chief subject and victim .

This had nothing less fo r its aim and obj ect

than to get Kerry married to H o mmy - beg

the b lind woman to the deaf man . N o w

H omm - y was a gaunt , raw boned man , dressed

in a rough blue j acket and a short grey petti

Hisf n o w coat . ull and proper name was quite

mi - . n y lost He was known as Ho beg , some

H omm - - at times as y beg Bill , a name which

once embodied a play ful allusion to his great

a physique , and a cert in genealogical record in D A N N Y TH E 1 , MADCAP 3 7

of showing that he was little Tom , the son

t o f f Bill . Though scarcely shor stone dea , he was musical . He , played two instruments ,

f ' the ﬁddle and the voice . The ormer squeaked like a rasp , and the latter thundered like a

- Ball am ona fog horn . Away to Master Danny

f H omm - went, and ound y beg thinning a bed of peonies .

‘ f of Aw , man , the terrible ond she is the

’ ’ 0 w like that s ate ﬂower , said the young

- f rogue , who spoke the home spun to the li e .

t h e Aw , dear , way she smells at them when you bring them up for the Bishop

i t ? What , ould Kerry Smelling , is

’ And never a whiff o f a smell at the breed 0 them

’ ’ Och no , it s not the ﬂowers , it s the man , H mm ’ o . the man , y ‘ ’ d o ’ That ll , that ll do . And blind , too l ’ Wel . , well

‘ ’ But the swate temper that s at her, 1 3 8 TH E BE E M S TE E

H ommy ! And the coaxing and coaxing of

f of ! her And man alive , the ond she is you

A ne sor t o a ma n an wa s A r a el ood ﬁ f y y , and g

voic e a t him x di . e t raor Aw, extraordinary,

’ D ye raely mane it

‘ ? l w wh o bu t Mane it Aw , we l, ell and

’ ‘ H omm 9 you doesn t know it , y

‘ Astonishing, astonishing

Come up to the C o ort and take a cup 0

’ tay with her .

‘ H mm - o y beg scratched his head . Is it rael y true , Danny veg

’ ’ H omm I ll lave it with you , y , said Danny, and straightway the young rascal went back

’ to Bishop s Court, lighted upon blind Kerry, and entered upon a glowing description of the

of H mm - personal ch arms o y beg .

- hi ! Aw , the good looking he is , astonis ng My gough You should see him in his

a frill Sunday hat , or maybe with on his shirt,

1 40 TH E DEEMSTER

church . Wild as the freak was that made the

f “ w dea man and the blind woman man and ife , their m arriage was n one the less happy for

inﬁ rmi i s their t e .

The Deemster heard o f the plot on his way.

to church on Sunday morning , and he laughed

in his throat all through the service , and when

the ﬁrst of the askings was solemnly pro

claimed from the reading - desk he tittered

ew of audibly in his p . Danny was tired the

’ - fo woman s second sight und it inconvenient , very—wanted to be rid of her—good he

chuckled . But not long afterwards he enj oyed

for a j est that was yet more to his taste , his

b of f own prime utt ridicule , the Church itsel ,

was then the victim .

It was an old Manx custom that on Christmas Eve the church should be given up to the people for the singing of their native l c ar a s . carols or v The curious service was .

O iel and known as Verree (the Eve of Mary), DA N N Y TH E AI A D CA P , 1 41 at every such service for the last t wenty years

H mm - o . y beg, the gardener, and Mr James

u h ad fﬁ Q irk , the schoolmaster, o ciated as

“ singers in the strange Manx ritual . Great had hitherto been the rivalry between these

e musical celebrities , but word had gon round the town that at length their efforts were to be combined in a carol which they were to ff sin g together . Dan had e ected this extra ordinary combination of talent by a plot which was expected to add largely to the amusement of the listeners .

H omm - not y beg could read a syllable , yet he never would sing his carol without having the printed copy of it in his hand . Of course

Mr . Quirk , the schoolmaster, could read , but ,

H omm - as we have seen , he resembled y beg in

- being almost stone deaf. Each could hear himself sing, but neither could hear another .

And now for the plot . Master Dan called on t h e gardener at his cottage on the Brew on 1 42 TH E DEEMSTER the morning o f the d ay before Christmas Day

’ ‘ ’ H omm m orth al and y , said he , it s strange

’ the way a man of your common sense can t see that you ’ d wallop that squeaking ould Jemmy Quirk in a jiffy if you ’ d only consent to sing a ballad along of him . Bless me , ’ ’ a man alive , it s then they d be seeing what

’

of . weak , ould cracked pot a voice is at him

’ H o mmy - beg s face began to wear a smile f o benevolent condescension . Observing his advantage , the young rascal continued , Do it

’ i l - H omm l n at O e . the Verree to night, y He l si g

’ ’ his treble , and you ll sing seconds to him .

It jwas an u nlucky remark . The gardener frowned austerely . Me sing seconds to the craythur No never

H omm - Dan explained to y beg , with a

o f world abj ect apologies , that there was a sense in which seconds meant ﬁrsts , and at

m olliﬁ ed length the gardener was , and con sented to the proposal ; but one idea was

1 44 TH E DEEMSTER

to the plot than the gardener had been . A

carol was selected ; it was to be the ancient Manx carol on the bad women mentioned in the Bible as having (from Eve downward) brought evil on mankind .

N o w H omm - l , y beg kept his caro s pinned ‘ Bad against the walls of his cottage . The Women ’ was the carol which was pinned

above the mantel - piece just under the pen f dulum of the clock with the facetious ace . It resembled the other prints in being worn

H omm - crumpled , and dirty but y beg knew it by its position , and he could distinguish

o every ther carol by its place on his walls .

‘ ’ Danny had somehow got a sku t e into m f this literary ystery, and a ter arranging with the schoolmaster the carol that was to be

H o mm - o u t sung, he watched y beg of his cot

“ of tage , and then went into it under pretence a ’ f friendly call upon blind Kerry . Before he le t the cottage he had taken down the carol that DA N N Y TH E 1 , MADCAP 45 had been pinned above t h e mantel - piece and

ﬁxed up another in place of it from the oppo f site side o the room . The substituted carol

u happened , oddly eno gh , to be a second copy

’ o n of the carol Bad Women , with this radi

’ cal diﬂ eren c e the copy taken from under the

c w as of n clo k the version the carol in E glish ,

wa and the copy put up s the version in Manx .

’ Towards ten o clock that ni ght the church

a a nd H omm - bells beg n to ring , y beg looked f at the clock , took the carol rom under the pendulum , put on his best petticoat, and went ff o to church .

re oic Now, there were to be seasonable j w ings at the Court on the morro , and Kerry had gone over to help at the Christmas prepa l rations . Ewan and Mona had a ways spent their Christmas at Bishop ’ s Court since the

n day when they left it as children . That ight they had arrived as usual , and after they had spent some hours with Danny in dressing the

VO L . I . 1 46 TH E DE E M S TE E house in a green and red garment of hibbin and lin the o ff hol , Bishop had turned them to

’ bed . Danny s bedroom was the little crib

’ over the library, and Ewan s was the room over that . All three bade the Bishop good night and went into their rooms . But Danny did not go to bed he listened until he heard the Bishop in the library twisting his chair

n and stirri g the peats , and then he whipped

’ off his boots and crept upstairs to Ewan s

h o f room . There in bated breat he told the great sport that was to come off at the O iel

o f Verree, announced his intention going, and urged Ewan to go with him . They could jus t j ump through the little window of his room and light o n the soft grass by the library wall , and get in again by the same easy means .

o ne No would know that they had been out , and what high jmks they must have But no , Ewan was not to be persuaded, and Danny set o ff alone .

1 48 TH E DEEMSTER

see that all is done in decency and order, and that you close my church before mid

‘ Aw ’ ’ , but the church is the people s , I m t h in kin said H ommy - beg with a shake o f his tousled head .

’ as The people are ignorant as goats , said the parson angrily .

‘ ’ Aw , well, and you re their shepherd , so

’ o f H omm - just make sheeps them , said y beg , and he pushed on .

was Danny there by this time , and , with a f of t ace migh y solemnity , he sat on the right

‘ of i n - be0 f Hom y 23 7 and held a candle in his le t d han . When everything was understood to

V V ill - - be ready, and as Thorn , the clerk , had

a taken his station inside the communion r il ,

o f O iel F the business the Verree began . irst o ne man got up and sang a carol in English

n n ar then another sa g a Ma x c ol . But the great event of the night was to be the carol DA N N Y TH E M A D CA P 1 , 49

sung by the sworn enemies and rivals , H m — om . y beg and Mr James Quirk .

for At last the time came these worthies .

f o f They rose rom opposite sides the church ,

ou t eyed each other with severe looks , stepped of their pews and walked do wn the aisle to

th e orc h n p . the door of l The they turned

u i n abo t silence , and , standing side by side, faced the communion . The titterin g in the gallery and whisper ing in the body were audible to all except the persons who were the cause of both .

‘ ’ ’ Hush , hush , man alive, that s him , that s

’ ‘ H o mm - him . Bless me , look at y beg and

’ et t i c u t inn in the p , and the handkercher p hi ’ ‘ ’ ’ s . round throat Aw , dear, it s what he s f ’ d ’ used o . A regular Punch and Ju y . Danny was exertin g himself at that mo

l m an m o . ent to keep rder and si ence Hush , ,

’ let them make a start for all . The carol the rivals were about to sing 1 50 TH E D E E M S TE E

contained some thirty verses . It was an ancient usage that after each verse the carol singers should take a long stride towards the

‘ of communion . By the time the carol Bad Women ’ came to an end the carol singers

of must , therefore, be at the opposite end the

church . There was now a sublime scorn printed

f of fo r H omm on the eatures Mr . Quirk . As y

t beg, he looked , at this last ins ant , like a man who was rather sorry than otherwise fo r his rash adversary .

’ ’ rerm anti c The they re looking, whispered a girl in the gallery to the giggling com : panion beside her .

Expectation was at its highest when

Homi n y - beg thrust his hand into his pocket

and brought out the printed copy of the carol .

H omm f y un olded it , glanced at it with the

air of a conductor taking a ﬁnal look at his

' t score , nodded his head at i as if in approval ,

1 52 TH E DE E M STE E

! . tune . Ah Mr Quirk understood it all ! The monster wanted to show that he, James

c Ou ld Quirk , schoolmaster, only sing one

as a s carol but , sure his name was Jemmy , he would be equal with him ! He could sing this Manx version , and he would . It was

’ now Mr . Quirk s turn to smile .

‘ Aw - — of , look at them the two them

’ grinnin together like a pair o f old gu rgoil s on the steeple !

’ o f i a At a motion the gardener s hand ,

th e tended to beat the time , singers began . — H ommy - beg sang the carol agreed upon the

‘ ’ English version of Bad Women . Mr . Quirk — sang the carol they held in their hands the

‘ ’ Manx version o f Bad Women . Neither

“ heard the other , and to dispel the bare notion h t at either was singing seconds , each bawled

of at the utmost reach his lung power . To

one tune H ommy - beg sang

Th u s fro m t h e d ays of Ad am

mi s h i ef ou ma t ra e H er c y y c . DA N N Y TH E M A D CA P , 1 53

And k n to another Mr . Quir sa g

’ Sh e i sh v a n vo i r ain o oilley ’ u m n S on v ee d a Ad a be .

S uch laughter ! H o w the young women in the gallery lay back in their seats with

hysterical shrieks ! H o w the young fellows in the body m ade the sacred ediﬁce ring With

uff ! g aws But the singers , with eyes stead

as o n f tly ﬁxed on the paper , heard n thi g but

h i s each own voice . b Three verses had een sung, and three

strides made towards the communion , when suddenly the laughter and shouting of the

h ad people ceased . All eyes turned towards the porch . There the Bishop stood . with

t blank amazemen printed on his face , his

f- head bare , and one hand on the hal opened

If a spectre had appeared the consterna tion had scarcely been greater . Danny had been rolling in his pew with unconstrained 1 54 TH E DEEMSTER

of laughter, but at sight the Bishop his candle fell from hi s hand and sputtered on the book f rail . The Bishop turned about , and be ore the people had recovered from their surprise he was gone . At the next moment everybody got up without a word and left the church . In two minutes more not a soul remained

H o mm - except y beg and Mr . Jemmy Quirk , ' t who , with eyes riveted on the prin ed carol in

o f their hands , still sang lustily , oblivious the fact that they had no audience . When Danny left the church that night it was through t h e lancet window of the vestry .

Dropping on the turf at the north - east of the church , he leapt the wall that divided the f churchyard rom a meadow on the north , and struck upon a path that went round to ’ f ff Bishop s Court by way o the cli head . The

was n path a lo g one , but it was lonesome , and its lonesomeness was no small merit in

’ Danny s view that night . The Bishop must

1 56 TH E DEEMSTER

h keep t em down . To banish them Danny f began to whistle , and , ailing to enliven him f sel much by that exercise , he began to sing .

His selection of a song was not the happiest

u u nder the circumstances . It was the dolef l

‘ ’ h r in ballad o f Myl e C a a e . Danny sang it

in Manx , but here is a stave of it in English

O h M l e Ch arain e wh ere ot ou o u r old ? , y , g y y g

L one l one o u h av e l eft me h ere , , y

O h n ot i n t h e C urra h d ee u nd er th e mou ld , g , p

n l n o i of h r L e one a d v d c ee . o , , He had come up to Bishop ’ s Court on the

’ sea front , and there the Bishop s library stood

f o f out rom the body the old house, between fﬁ the chapel porch and the kitchen o ces . A

light was in the library , and passing over the soft grass with the soft ﬂight of a lapwing

Danny peered in at the curtainless window . f The amiliar room was empty . On the hearth

n an d a turf ﬁre bur ed without ﬂame , bathed

‘ e ’ the book - encased walls in a rosy red; l h e DA N N Y TH E M A D CA P 1 , 57

’ Bishop s easy chair, in its white covering ,

of t h e stood at one side ingle , his slippers in

of front it and beside it , on the little three e - l gged mahogany table , were the ink horn

’ and the long quill , and the Bishop s four cornered library cap . The door stood aj ar , and the two candles in the two brass brackets at each side of the ﬁ re - place were tipped by their extinguishers .

The Bishop had not returned ; but the fain t s mile of triumph which at that thought

’ rested like a ray o f pale sunshi ne on Danny s

nl face sudde y vanished . In a lad s vague way Danny now realised that it h ad not been merely because the night was dark and the w d road lonely that he had histle and sung .

He hung his head where he stood in the night , and as if by an involuntary movement he lifted his cap and fumbled it . At the next instant Dann y was clamberin g

up th e angle of the wall to the lead ﬂat that 1 58 TH E DE E M S TE E

o f covered the projecting part the library . From this lead ﬂat there opened the Window

of w s his own bedroom , and in a moment he a

striding throu gh it . All was darkness with

in , but he needed no light to see his way in

“ that room . He knew every crib and corner ; l the place where he kept his ﬁshing ines , the f nail rom which his moth net hung, the bottle

o n the drawers in which he had his minnows , and the can with the lid well down that con

t ained the newts that were the terror of all

the women in the house . If Danny had been

as blind as old Kerry he could have found

everything his room had in it, except , perhaps ,

o his breeches , or his shirt , or his ther coat , or f that cap that was always getting itsel lost , and of course no sight and no light would

help a lad to ﬁnd things like these . Hardly had Danny taken a step into his room before he realised that someone had

e . be n there since he left it Derry, his white

1 60 TH E DE E M S TE E

f trick to defeat appearances . He had a oot on the stairs to carry out his design when he heard the door at the front of the house open f and close , and a amiliar step pass through

the hall . The Bishop had returned . Danny

N o waited and listened . w there was talking

’ in the library . Danny s quick ear co uld

w but scarcely distinguish the ords , the voices — he could not mistake they were the voices o f

the Bishop and blind Kerry . With a stealthy

’ s tride Danny went up to Ewan s room . Ewan

’

. F was sleeping eeling hot and cold together,

’ Danny undressed and turned into bed . Before

he had time to bury hi s head under th e

clothes he heard the Bishop on the stairs . f The ootsteps passed into the room below, and then after an interval they were again on the

a . k st irs In another moment Danny new,

though of course his eyes were fast shut, and he

f u was sleeping most pro o ndly, that the Bishop with a lighted candle in his hand was leaning o ver him . N Y T DA N , H E MA D CA P 1 61

It would wrong th e truth to say that Master Danny ’ s slumber was disturbed that ni ght ; but next morning when the boys awoke together and Ewan rose o n h i s elbo w with a puzzled gaze at his unexpected bed

w of t h e fello , Danny sidled out bed on to the

ﬂoor , and , without looking too much into

’ h i s Ewan s face , he began his toilet, as was wont, by putting on his cap . He had got this

“

~ length , and was standing in cap and shirt, when he blurted out the mischief o f last

’ night s adventure , the singing, the sudden

of appearance the Bishop , the race home along

ff n ‘ the cli , and the comi g up to bed . But you ’ l ll ? ’ et s . won t on , Ewan , wi you he aid

Ewan looked at that moment as if the fate of

ni the u verse hung on his answer, but he gave m hi m the pro ise that was required of . Then b f the oys went downstairs and ound Mona , and imparted the dread secret t o her . Pre sently the Bishop came in to breakfast with a

VO L . I . 1 62 TH E DEEMSTER

t face hat was paler than usual , and more than ordinarily solemn .

‘ ’ e Danny , he said , why did you not sl ep in your own bed last night, my boy

‘ ’ n an I slept with Ewan, father , Da ny

r d s we e promptly .

The Bishop said no more then , and they

all sat down at the table . ‘ And so you two boys went to bed to

‘ —zo etli er ? of gether g he said , and, with a dig emphasis on his last word , repeated, he looked at Ewan .

’ and u Ewan s face crimsoned , his tong e

‘ ’ f u altered , Yes , ncle . ’ f ‘ ’ The Bishop s eyes ell . Boys , he said in ‘ i another tone , would you th nk it I have

’ done you a great wrong . The boys were just then most intent on

- the table cloth .

‘ ’ You must know , the Bishop went on, ‘ that there was a most unseemly riot at the

1 64 TH E DEEMSTER

th elittl e m aid en s troubled eyes upon him , aid , ‘ Ewan didn’ t mean to tell you what wasn ’ t true—and cousin Danny didn ’ t intend to — — —I deceive but he was that is , Danny

’ — u mean dear ncle, you won t

‘ You mean that Danny was at the O iel —I w w Verree last night kno it , child I kno

’ h e ' it , said the Bishop , and patted her head

and smiled . But the Bishop knew also that Danny had that day made one more step d own the steep o f of -s life , and left a little ghost his child elf behind him , and in his secret heart the Bishop

saw that shadowy form , and wept over it . R CH APTE VIII .

PA SSIN G TH E L O VE O F WO ME N .

N ow the facts of thi s history must stride on some six years , and in that time the Deemster

had lost . nearly all the little interest he ever

' felt in his children . Mona had budded into womanhood , tender, gracious , quiet, a tall ,

- fair haired maiden of twenty, with a drooping head like a ﬂower, with a voice soft and low, and the full blue eyes with their depths of love and sympathy shaded by long ﬂuttering lashes as the trembling sedge shades the d eep m u ountain pool . It was as ripe and beautif l a womanhood as the heart of a father might

of li dream , but the Deemster could take ttle pleasure in it . If Mona had been his son , 1 66 TH E DE E /WS TE R

her quiet ways and tractable nature might

have counted for something ; but a woman

’ was only a woman in the Deemster s eyes ,

and the Deemster, like the Bedouin chief, would have numbered his child ren without

counting his daughter . As for Ewan , he had

h o f falsiﬁed every p e o the Deemster . His

n for Spartan traini g had gone nothing . He

a w eaklin was physically g a tall , spare youth

- h i s si st er of two and twenty , fair haired like ,

f fu with a ace as spiritual and beauti l , and

f - hardly less eminine . He was of a self tor turing spirit , constantly troubled with vague

h e questionings , and though in this regard f ’ was very much his ather s son , the Deemster held his temperament in contempt . The end of all was that Ewan showed a strong desire to enter the Church . The Deemster had intended that his son should

study the law and follow him in his place

’ when his time came . But Ewan s womanly

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i of nterest in his son expired , and he sent Mona across to Bishop ’ s Court with a curt message saying that Ewan and his wife were if d at liberty , they like , to take possession of

Ball mo a the old a n . Thus he turned his back

u so n and pon his , did his best to wipe him

’ f i mi nd o u t o h s . Ewan took his young wife to the home

stead th at had been the place of his people

for a f six gener tions , the place where he himsel

h ad been born , the place where that other

Ewan , his good grandfather, had lived and died .

‘ More than ever for these events th e Deem m ster beca e a solitary man . He kept no

company ; he took no pleasures . Alone he sat night after night in his study at Balla mona, and Ball amona was asleep before he

and n His slept , before it awoke he was stirri g .

’ ’ d au ghter s presence in the house was no

f r society o the Deemster . She grew beside

’ h i m e like her moth r s youth , a yet fairer PASSING TH E LO VE O F WOMEN 1 69 v ision of the old days coming b ack to him ' a b h . hour by hour, but e saw not ing of all th t

in ‘ Disappointed his sole hope , his son , whom v e’ truly he had ne er loved for lov s sake, but at only for his own sorry ambitions , he s down under his disappointment a doubly - soured

- h ad and thrice hardened man . He . grown

O r noticeably lder, but his restless ene gy suf f r d Bi - e e no abatement . weekly he kept his

few l aw l aw courts , but sought the whom the d i d n o t ﬁrst ﬁnd , for word went round that the Deemster was a hard j udge, and deemed ff the laws in rigour . If men di ered about money , they would say , Och, why go to the Deemster ? It ’ s throwing a bone into the d ’ ’ bad og s mouth , and then they would divide ff their di erence .

’ T h e one remaining j oy of the Deemster s

’ was lonely life centred in his brother s son ,

Dan . That lusty youth had not disappointed hi s expectations . At twenty he was a braw , TH E DEEMSTER

- - brown haired, brown eyed lad of six feet two

s inche in stature, straight and upright , and h wit th e thews and sinews of an ox . He was l the ath ete of the island , and where there was

o f a tough j ob wrestling to be had, or a

delightful bit of ﬁghting to be done, there

‘ of was Dan in the heart it . Aw, and mid

’ dlin few th e g could come anigh him , people

’ used to say . But more than in Dan s great stature and great strength the little Deemster took a bitter pleasure in his daring irreverence for things held sacred . In this regard Dan had not improved with improving years .

Scores o f tricks his sad pugnacity devised to help the farmers to cheat the parson o f his

’ tithe, and it added not a little to the Deemster s keen relish o f freaks lik e these that it was none other than the son of the Bishop who perpetrated them . As for the Bishop himself, he tried to shut his eyes to such follies . He

in meant his son to go into the Church , and ,

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‘ I suppose , sir, you think you can read your Greek Testament Dan answered that he had never thought i anyth ng about it .

I dare say for all your modesty that you have an idea that you know it well enough to

’ teach it, said the Archdeacon .

’ Dan hadn t an idea on the subject .

Take down the Greek Testament, and

’ imagine that I m your pupil , and proceed to

’ e xpound it, said the Archdeacon . Dan took the book from the bookcase and

u h i s f mbled it in ﬁngers .

o e of Well , sir, p n at the parable the

’ tares .

Dan scratched his big head leisurely, and

’ he did his best to ﬁnd the place . So I m to be — it tutor is that he said , with a puzzled

’ That is so . And you are to be the pupil PASSING TH E LO VE O F . WOMEN 1 73

Precisely—suppose yourself my tutor

’ n and now begi . At this Ewan stepped out with a look of

‘ a f anxiety . Is not that a r ther di ﬁcult sup t imml position , Archdeacon he said y . The Archdeacon glanced over his grandson loftily and made no reply .

‘ ’ Begin , sir, begin , he said, with a sweep

of his hand towards Dan , and at that he sat

' d0wn in the high - backed oak chair at the head

o f the table . Then on the instant there came into Dan ’ s

quick eyes a most mischievous twinkle . He was standing before the table with the Greek

" O o f Testament pen at the parable the tares ,

' and he knew too well h e could not read the

a n When do we change places , Archde co

he asked . ‘ We have changed places—you are now —I — ’ the tutor am your pupil begin, sir . ' 1 74 TH E DE E M S TE E

‘ n Oh we have cha ged places , have we f said Dan, and at that he li ted up the Arch

deacon s silver - tipped walking cane which lay

on th e table and brought it down again with

o ff a bang . Then just you get up your chair,

’ a sir, he s id with a tone of command . The Archdeacon ’ s russet face showed

of several tints blue at that moment , but he f rose to his eet . Thereupon Dan handed him the open book .

‘ ’ Now, sir, he said, ﬁrst read me the

‘ ’ parable of the tares . The clergy began to shufﬂe about and look ’ a ’ into each other s f ces . The Archdeacon s expression was not amiable , but he took the

book and read the parable . f ’ Very air, very fair indeed, said Dan in

a tone of mild condescension a few false

’ quantities , but very fair on the whole . ‘ i Gentlemen , gentlemen , th s is going too

’ far, said one of the clergy .

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was ff t son, and that an o ence hat neither m could forgive . To the Dee ster it seemed that the Bishop was bearing d own every a f mbition of his li e , tearing him up as a naked trunk , leaving him a childless man . To the Bishop it seemed that the Deemster was wrecking the one life that was more t o h im than his own soul , and standing between him and the heart that with all its follies was d F earer than the world beside . rom this time of Ewan ’ s marriage and Dan’ s disgrace the Bishop and the Deemster rarely met , and when they passed on the road they exchanged only the coldest salutation . But if the fates were now more than ever fostering an unnatural enmity between the

n sons of old Ewan , they were cherishi g at the same time the loves of their children . Never . were cousins more unlike or more fondly

s s attached . Between Dan , the reckles cape

a s e es grace , and Mon , with the big oft y and PASSING TH E L O VE O F WOMEN 1 77

ff the quiet ways , the a ection was such as neither understood . They had grown up d side by side, they had seen each other aily , they had scampered along the shore with clasped hands , they had screamed at the sea gulls with one voice , and still they were boy and girl together . But once they were

n stooki g the barley in the glebe , and, the day i being hot , Mona tipped back her wh te sun

n . bo net , and it fell on to her shoulders Seeing

Dan this , came stealthily behind and thought , very craftil y to whisk it away unobserved ; but the strings by whi ch it was tied caught in her hair and tugged at its knot , and the beau tiful wavy shower fell rip - rip - rippling down her back . The wind caught the loosened

and hair tossed it about her , and she stood up erect among the corn with the ﬁrst blush on t her cheeks that Dan had ever brough there , and turned full upon hi m all the glorious

of light her deep blue eyes . Then , then , oh

VO L . I . TH E DEEMSTER

then , Dan seemed to see her for the ﬁrst time

a wom an a girl no longer, but , a woman , a woman ! And the mountains behind h er a ’ were in one instant blotted out of D n s eyes , a and everything seemed to spin bout him . h When next he knew where e was , and

’ r what he was doing , behold there we e Mona s

n rosy lips under his , and she was panti g and gasping for breath . But if the love of Dan and Mona was more than cousinly , though they knew it not

o f as yet , the love Ewan for Dan was won d erful and passing the love of women . That t pure soul, wi h its vague spiritual yearnings, seemed to have nothing in common with the j ovial roysterer , always ﬁghting , always laughin g, taking disgrace as a duck takes water , and losing the trace of it as easily . Twenty times he stood between the scape

grace and the Bishop , twenty times he hid

from the good father the follies of the son .

TH E DEEMSTER

If you were a tramp of the profession of Billy

the Gawk , he would look up at you with his bi g innocent eyes , and lick your hand , and

u thr st his nose into your palm , and the next moment he would seize you by the hindmost

parts and hold on like a leech . His unamiable

qualities grew as he grew in years , and one

n day Dan we t on a long j ourney , leaving

Derry behind , and when he returned he had S another dog with him , a great shaggy cotch

collie , with bright eyes , a happy phiz , and a f huge bush o a tail . Derry was at the gate

when his master came home, and he eyed the

- new comer with looks askance , From that d a u h e y Derry t rned his back on his master, w ould never answer his call, and he did not

T‘know his whistle from t h e croak of a corn k f cra e . In act, Derry took his own courses ,

and forthwith fell into all manner of dissolute

n l habits . He went out at ights a one, incognito,

n t m a d kept mos unchristian hours . The far ers PASSING TH E L O VE O F WO III E N 1 81 around complained that their sheep were

a found dead in the ﬁeld , torn and worried by

’ d o dog s teeth . Derry was known to be a g

n that did not live a reputable life , and suspicio fell on him . Dan took the old fox in hand , and thenceforward Derry looked out on the world through a rope muzzle .

‘ One day there was to be a sheep -dog match, and Dan entered his Scotch collie ,

Laddie . The race was to be in the meadow

Slieu Dh oo at the foot of , and great crowds of people came to witness it . Hurdles were set up to make all crooks and crank s of ditti

o f culty, and then a drift sheep were turned

as loose in the ﬁeld . The prize w to the dog

of that would , at the word its master, gather the sheep together and take them out at the

th en ' newl gate in the shortest time . Ewan , y married, was there , and beside him was his

’ - Tme child wife . was called, and Dan s turn came t o try the mettle of his Laddie . The TH E DEEMSTER

dog started well, and in two or three minutes he had driven the whole ﬂock save two into an alcove of hurdles close to where Ewan and f his wi e stood together . Then at the word of his master Laddie set off over the ﬁeld for the stragglers , and Dan shouted to Ewan not to stir a hand or foot o r the sheep would be

o w scattered again . N j ust at that instant who should pop over the edge but Derry in

his muzzle, and quick as thought he shot .

off down his head , put up his paws , threw his muzzle , dashed at the sheep , snapped at their legs , and away they went in twenty directions .

Before Ewan had time t o cry out Derry was gone , with his muzzle between his teeth .

When Dan , who was a perch or two up the meadow , turned round and saw what had

’ happened, and that his dog s chances were

a r gone , his nge overcame him , and he turned on n f Ewa with a torrent o reproaches .

1 84 TH E DEEMSTER

At that sight Ewan ’ s livid face turned

to a great pallor, and Dan broke into a hard

laugh .

’ ’ We ve heard of a dog slipping his muzzle ,

‘ he said , but who ever heard of a dog putting a muzzle on again Then Ewan stepped from the side of his

- f girl wi e , who stood there with heaving breast .

aﬂ am e bu t His eyes were , for an instant he

a nd w conquered his emotion , said , ith a con

in strained quietness , but with a deep pathos

‘ ’ o u his tone , Dan , do you think I ve told y the truth

‘ ’ Dan wheeled about . I think you ve told

’ me a lie , he said , and his voice came thick from his throat . e All heard the word, and all h ld their breath . Ewan stood a moment, as if rooted i to the spot , and his pallid face wh tened every instant . Then he fell back , and took the girl

h er wife by the hand and turned away with , P A S S I N G TH E VE O F WO M E N 1 85

hi s h f his head down , very eart surging itsel

An d out of his choking breast . , as he passed

n w through the thro g , to carry a ay from that scene the madness that was working in his

n of brain, he overheard the mocki g comments l ‘ l the peop e . Aw , well, wel , did ye hear that

- and now called him a liar , not a word to ’ ‘ ! ? say agen it . A liar Och , a liar and

’ ‘ arz on t oo ! him a p , Middling chicken

— a ! hearted anyways liar Aw, well , well , well At that Ewan ﬂung away the hand of his f f f wi e , and , quivering rom head to oot, he strode towards Dan .

’ ’ , You ve ‘ called me a liar he said in a ‘ N o w o u shrill voice that was like a cry . , y shall prove your word—you shall ﬁght me

’ you shall , by God . He was completely carried away by pas

‘ arz on arz on ! The p , the p Man alive , the 1 86 TH E DEEMSTER

arz on ! young p the people muttered , and u they closed aro nd .

n Dan stood a moment . He looked dow

’ from h i s great height at Ewan s quiverin g di form and storted face . Then he turned about and glanced into the faces of the people . In another instant his eyes were swimming in

an tears he took a step towards Ew , ﬂung his arms about him , and buried his head in his neck , and the great stalwart lad wept like a

’ In little child . another moment Ewan s pas sion was melted away, and he kissed Dan on the cheek .

‘ Blubbering cowards Aw, blather ! ’ ‘ skites Och , man alive , a pair of turtle doves ! ’

Dan lifted his head , and looked around , raised himself to his full height , clenched

s his ﬁsts , and aid

‘ Now, my did your best to

’ m e . ak a ﬁght , and you couldn t manage it I

1 88 TH E DEEMSTER

R IX CHAPTE .

TH E SE RVI C E O N TH E SH O RE .

I T was the spring of the year when the , examinin g chaplain gave the verdict which for good or ill put Dan o u t of the odou r of

nd sanctity . Then in disgrace with fortune a

’ men s eyes he haunted the shore where old Billy and his mates were spreading their nets and barking them in preparation for the

n herri g season that was soon to begin .

There it was , while stretched on the warm

n w uilleash s shi gle , ith old Billy Q itting m near , smoking his black cutty and ending the meshes broken by the dog - ﬁ sh of last

a a new year , that Dan hit on the ide of

or course in life . This was nothing better TH E SER VICE O N TH E SHORE 1 89

n worse than that of turni g ﬁsherman . He would buy a smack and make old Billy his skipper ; he would follow the herrings

i hi s o wn t h e h mself, and take up share and l share of the boat . It would be delightfu ,

be . and , of course , it would vastly proﬁtable Everything looked plain and straight and i simple , and though old B lly more than

‘ hi s half shook grey head at the proj ect , and

all let f by several inches his tawny face , and took his pipe out of his mouth and cleared his throat noisily and looked vacantly out to

sea , and gave other ominous symptoms of

n al grave i tern dubitation , Dan leapt to his

new feet at the sudden access of purpose,

and bowled off in hot haste t o tell the

Bishop .

n The Bishop listened in sile ce at ﬁrst , and with a sidelong look out at the window

u th e Sli eu Dh oo and n p to heights of , whe

Dan in a an - r at c ertain , h g dog manne , hinted _ 1 90 TH E DEEMSTER

- o f new born intentions reform , there was a

’ n perceptible trembli g of the Bishop s eyelids , and when he gathered voice and pictured

of the vast scheme proﬁt without loss , the Bishop turned his grave eyes slowly upon ’ f him , and then Dan s own eyes suddenly ell , and the big world began to shrivel up to the pitiful dimensions o f an orange with the

f o f juice squeezed out o it . But the end it all was t hat the Bishop undertook to become responsible for the ﬁrst costs of the boat ,

v mi and , ha ing made this pro se with the air of a man who knows too well that he is

o f il pampering the whim a spo ed boy , he turned away rather suddenly with his chin a thought d eeper than ever in his breast . What hurry and bustle ensued What

n drivi g away to north, south , east , and west , to every ﬁshing port in the island where boats were built or sold At length a boat

u le was bo ght on the chocks at Port Mary ,

1 92 TH E DEEMSTER

for the opening of the herring season was f hard upon them . But he ound time to run

up to the new Ball amona to tell Mona that

new she was to christen his boat, for it had

not been named when it left the chocks ;

Ball amona and then to the old , to persuade Ewan to go with him on his ﬁrst trip to the

herrings .

The day appointed by custom for the ﬁrst

takings of the herring came quickly round .

It was a brilliant day in early June . Ewan

had been across to Slieu Dh oo to visit his

father for the ﬁrst time since his marriage,

more than half a year ago , in order to say that he meant to go out for the night ’ s

’ ﬁshing in Dan s new boat, and to beg that his young wife who was just then in delicate

health , might be invited to spend the night of his absence with Mona at the new Bal Th wi lamona . e Deemster complied th a grim

’ grace Ewan s young wife went across in the TH E SER VICE O N TH E SH ORE 1 93

f all f early morning , and in the a ternoon our, f the Deemster and Mona , Ewan and his wi e ,

off — set in a lumbering , springless coach the ﬁrst that the island had yet seen—to witness the departure o f the herrin g ﬂeet from Peel

’ n t town , and to e gage in tha day s ceremony . The salt breath of the sea was in the air and the light ripples of the bay glistened

a I through a drowsy haze of w rm sunshine . t

’ - was to be high water at six o clock . When the Deemster ’ s company reached Peeltown

l e d the sun was sti l high over Contrary H a , i and the ﬁsh ng boats in the harbour, to the

of n number two hundred , were rolli g gently ,

se h . t wit their brown sails half , to the motion of the rising tide . There was Dan i n his guernsey on the

o f w u deck his boat, and , as the coach dre p

of f near the bottom the wooden pier, he li ted

m e his red cap fro his curly h ad , and then went on to tie a bottle by a long blue ribbon

V O L . I . 1 94 TH E DEEMSTER

to the tiller . There was old Billy Qu illeash

- Fa l e in his sea boots , and there was Davy y , a shambling sort of lad , long rather than f tall , with fair hair tangled over his orehead , and a face which had a simple , vacant look that came of a lagging lower lip . Men on every boat in the harbour were washing the

o r n o u t decks , baili g the dingy, or laying

- down the nets below . The harbour master was on the quay , shouting to this boat to pull up or to that one to lie back . And down o n the broad sands of the shore were men , women , and children in many hundreds , sitting and lying and lounging about an empty boat with a hole in the bottom that

d r lay high and y on the beach . The old ﬁshing town itself had lost its chill and cheerless aspect , and no longer looked hun

ril o f g y out over miles bleak sea . Its blind

d r d alleys and ark lanes , its nar ow, crabbe , crooked streets were bright with little ﬂags

1 96 TH E DEEMSTER

the quay , and presently there came labouring

o ver the rough cobbles of the tortuous Castle

Street, ﬂanked by a tumultuous company of

- boys and men , bare headed women , and

children , who halloed and waved their arms

- and tossed up their caps , a rough coated

Manx pony , on which the tall ﬁgure of the

Bishop sat . The people moved on with the Bishop at their head until they came to the beach , and

o n there, at the disused boat lying dry the s t and , the Bishop alighted . In two minu es m ore every ﬁsherman in the harbour had left his boat and gathered with his fellows on the shore . Then there began a ceremony of 111

ﬁ nit e and pathos grandeur .

In the open boat the pale - faced Bishop stood , his long hair , sprinkled with grey, lifted gently over his drooping shoulders by the gentle breeze that came with its odour of

f n h im r brine rom the sea . Arou d on thei TH E SER VICE ON TH E SHORE 1 97

- knees on the sand were the tawny faced ,

weather - beaten ﬁshermen in their sea - boots

and guernseys , bare headed , and fumbling

their soft caps in their hard hands . There

on the outside , stood the multitude of men ,

’ an d women , and young children , on the skirts of the crowd stood the coach of the

f- c r Deemster, and it was hal en i cled by the

pawing horses of some o f the black - coated

clergy .

The Bishop began the service . It asked

for the blessing o f God on the ﬁshing ex pe d F ition which was about to set out . irst

‘ came the lesson , And God said , let the waters bring forth abundantly and then the

o f story Jesus in the ship , when there arose

a great tempest while He slept , and His

disciples awoke Him , and He arose and

rebuked the waves ; and then that other story of how the disciples toiled all night

but d and took nothing , let own their nets 1 98 TH E DEEMSTER

’ again at Christ s word , and there came a

of great multitude ﬁshes , and their nets

‘ R and brake . estore continue to us the

’ o f harvest the sea , prayed the Bishop , with his face uplifted ; and the men on their knees on the sand , with uncovered heads

i n re and faces their caps , murmured their ill ’ s onse n Y n Mea e . p in their own to gue , y f And while they prayed , the so t boom

u nru ﬂl ed of the waters on the shore , and

’ the se ‘a s d eep murmur from away beyond d the headlan , and the wild j abbering cries o f - u k a ﬂight of sea g lls , disporting on a roc

o in the bay, were the nly sounds that

’ mingled with the Bishop s deep tones and

’ the men s hoarse voices . f Last o all the Bishop gave out a hymn .

It was a simple old hymn , such as every man had known since his mother crooned it o ~c o t f ver his . The men rose to their eet, and their lusty voices took up the strain ;

200 TH E DEEMSTER and helped Mona and the young wife of t e Ewan to alight . He led h m to the quay steps , and when the company had gathered

about , and all was made ready , he shouted to old Billy to throw him the bottle that lay tied by the blue ribbon to the tiller . Then

-on he handed the bottle to Mona , who stood ’ s t h e few f . step , a eet above the water edge Mona was looking very fresh and beauti e i ful that day , with a d lic ous j oy and pride in n her deep eyes . Dan was talki g to her

' an ~ c onsc iou sness l ook with awkward sort of , ing askance at his big brown hands when they came i n contact with her dainty white a ﬁngers , then gl ncing down at his great

t clattering boots , and up into her sof smooth

‘ I t o t What am chris en her said Mona ,

h er with the bottle held up in hand . w answered Dan , ith a shame f 19 911 111191 h aced one and in his brown hair . TH E SER VICE ON TH E SHORE 20 1

’ ‘ ’ No , no , said she , not that .

’ Then what you like , said Dan .

‘ - m - Well , the Ben y Chree, said Mona , and with that the bottle broke on the boat ’ s

In another instant Ewan was kissing his

f - meek little wi e , and bidding her good bye ,

f for and Dan , in a umbling way, was , the

ﬁ in h i s f rst time li e , demurely shaking

’ Mona s hand , and trying hard to look her f in the ace .

‘ ’ u illeash Tail on there, shouted Q from

the lugger . Then the two men jumped

Fa le f aboard , Davy y ran the ropes rom the ’ f m blocks , the admiral s boat cleared away ro

’ a the quay , and the admir l s ﬂag was shot up

to the masthead . The other boats in the

harbour followed one by one , and soon the

f ll o f bay was u the ﬂeet .

‘ ’ As the Ben - my - Chree stood out to sea

- Dan beyond the island rock , and Ewan stood 20 2 TH E DEE MSTER

h i s aft Dan in his brown guernsey, Ewan in hi black coat ; Ewan waving his handkerc ef, and Dan his cap old Billy was at the tiller

Crennel , the cook had his head j ust above the hatchways , and Davy was clambering hand - over - hand up the rope by which the

dingy was hauled to the stern . Then the herring ﬂeet sailed away under

o f u n the glow the setting s .

20 4 TH E DEEMSTER

E nn n f seen of y Mooar . But a ter an hour of

darkness the heavens lightened again , and

o ld glistened with stars , and when Billy

Qu il leash brou ght his boat head to the wind

f o f n in six athoms water outside Port Eri ,

Bradd a the moon had risen behind , and the rugged h eadland showed clear against the f sky . One a ter another the boats and the

‘ ’ - m - ﬂeet brought to about the Ben y Chree . Dan asked old Billy if he had found the herrings on this ground at the same time in f ormer seasons .

‘ ’ Not for seven years , said the old

m n a . ‘ Then why try now ? ’ Bill stretched out his hand to where a

ﬂight of sea - gulls were dipping and sailing

’ ‘ ‘ h . e in the moonlight See the gull there ,

‘ ’ ’ - said . She s skipper to night ; she s show

’ ing us the ﬁsh .

Davy Fayl e had been leaning over the TH E FJRS T N TOH T WITH TH E HERRINGS 29 5

bow, rapping with a stick at the timbers near

’ the water s edge .

‘ u ll h Any signs shouted Billy Q i eas .

’ ‘ ’ A - ﬁ r e s ri sin y , said Davy , the mar

The wind had dropped , and luminous patches of phosphorescent light in the water w i were sho ing that the herr ngs were stirring .

‘ ’ Let s make a shot ; up with the gear ,

uilleash said Q , and preparations were made for shooting the nets over the quarter .

r l . C enne Ned Teare , you see to the line , — ’ look aft er the corks . Davy where s that

’ ‘ ’ — a 9 lad look to the seizings , d ye he r Then the nets were hauled from below and passed over a bank - board placed between

o f the hatchway and the top the bulwark .

Crennel Teare and shot the gear , and as the

aft h t seizings came up , Davy ran wit hem , and made them fast to the warp near the taffrail .

When the nets were all paid out , every ’ 29 9 TH E DEEMSTER

net in the drift being tied to the next,and a

solid wall of meshes nine feet deep had been

s wept away along the sea for half a mile be ~

u illeash hind them , Q shouted , Down with

’ the sheets .

The ropes were hauled , the sails were — taken in , the mainmast which was so made — as to lower backward was dropped , and

f - f only the dri t mizzen was le t, and that was to keep the boat head on to the wind . ’ l u il eash . Up with the light there , said Q

At this word Davy Fayl e popped his

o f head out the hatchways .

’ Aw , to be sure , that lad s never ready .

’

o f . Ger out that , quick

Davy jumped on deck , took a lantern and

o f ﬁxed it to the top the mitch board . Then f vessel and nets dri ted together, and Dan and

no w Ewan , who had kept the deck until , went below together .

It was now a calm clear night , with j ust

20 8 TH E DEEMSTER

‘ ’ - Too much moon to night, said Quil

‘ ’ see leash they the nets , and cute they are

’ extraordinary .

But half- an - hour later the moon went out behind a thick ridge of cloud that ﬂoated over

“ the land ; the sky became grey and leaden , ‘ r u ﬂl d and a rising breeze e the sea . Then hour

n o t after hour wore on , and a ﬁsh came to

’ - n the look o net . Towards one o clock in the

‘ ’ morningthe moon broke out again . There ll

’ uilleash be a heavy strike now, said Q , and in another instant a luminous patch ﬂoated

of across the line the nets , sunk , disappeared , and ﬁnally pulled three of the buoys down with them .

‘ ’ uillea sh Pull up now , shouted Q , in another tone .

Then the nets were hauled . Davy , the

- boy, led the warp through a snatch block

- ﬁxed to the mast hole on to the capstan . Ned Teare disconnected the nets from the TH E FIRST IVI GH T WITH TH E HERRINGS 209

Crennel warps , and and Corlett pulled the nets over the gunwale . They came up silver o o f . white in the mo nlight , a solid block ﬁsh

Billy Quill eash and Dan passed them over the scudding - pole and shook the herrings into the hold .

‘ ’ F u illeash ive maze at least , said Q , with f f ‘ i ’ o . a chuckle satis action Try aga n . And once more the nets were shot . The other l boats of the ﬂeet were signal ed , by a blue

‘ ft - light run up the dri mizzen , that the Ben

’ m - u y Chree had str ck a scale of ﬁsh . In a few minutes more the blue light was an s wered by other blue lights on every side , and these reported that the ﬁshery was every f where aring well .

’ One , two , three o clock came and went .

The night was wearing on ; the moon went h out once more , and in the darkness whic

' preceded t h e dawn the lanterns burning o n the ﬂeet of d rifting boats gave o u t an eerie

VO L . I . 2 1 0 TH E DEEMSTER glow across the waters that lay bl ack and

ﬂat around . The grey light came at length in the east , and the sun rose over the land .

Then the nets were hauled in for the last

’ time and that night s ﬁshing was done . The m f bu t ast was li ted , before the boat was

‘ u brought about the skipper sho ted , Men ,

’ ’ o f let us do as we re used , and instantly the

’ admiral s ﬂag was run up to the masthead , and at this sign the m en dropped o n one knee

t f with heir aces in their caps , and old Billy offered up a short and simple prayer of

for l o f thanks the b essings the sea . When this was done every man leapt to his feet, and all was work , bustle , shouting

o u t singing , and some lusty curses . ‘ Tumble up the sheets—bear a hand

’ —d u ill eash there the lad , bawled Q ;

’ o ut Ger of the way, or I ll make you walk d ’ han some over the bricks .

’ - m - In ﬁve minutes more the Ben y Chree ,

2 1 2 TH E DEEMSTER with an inclination o f the h ead in the direction of the ﬁsh in the hold , Ewan said ,

‘ ’ It seems cruel , Davy, doesn t it

‘ l z i l ? W oz z ib e o z b e. Cruel ell, p , p Och ,

’ ’ deed now , they ve got their feelings same as

’ anybody else . The parson had taken the lad ’ s measure at a glance .

You should see the shoals o f them lying

‘ — round the nets , watching the others their — ’ mothers and sisters , as you might say who ve

’ got their gills tangled . And when you haul w h the net up , a ay t ey go at a slant in millions

u li h t nin oin and millions , j st the same as g g g g

es through the water . Och , y , yes , leave them alone for having their feelings .

‘ It does seem cruel , Davy , eh Davy looked puzzled he was reasoning out a grave problem .

' ’ W a ell, sir, that s the mortal str nge part

f i sar en o t . t It does look cruel to catch them , TH E FIRST NIGHT WITH TH E H E RRI IVGS 2 1 3 sure but then the herrings themselves catch

- the sand eels , and the cod catch the herring , and the porpoises and grampuses catch the

E wan did his best to look astonished .

‘ ’ ’ Aw , that s the truth , sir . It s terrible ,

’ bu t wonderful, strange , I suppose it s all n sir athur . You see , , we do the same our s elves .

‘ ’ n ? How do you mea , Davy We don t

’ eat each other , I hope , said the young parson . ‘ ’ ? Och , don t we though Lave us alone

’ for that .

Ewan tried to look appalled .

' ’ W o f c o orse a te x ac tl ell , , not to say , not y

a te but the biggest chap allis rigs the rest and the next biggest chap allis rigs a littler

o ne , you know, and the littlest chap , he gets

’ h e rigged by everybody all round , doesn t ,

o f n Davy had got a grip the k otty problem , 2 1 4 TH E DE E /WS TE R

l ’ but the ad s poor, simple face looked sadly d d burdene , and he came back to his old wor .

’ Seems to me it must be all nathur , sir .

Ewan began to feel some touch of shame

at playing with this simple , earnest , big little

’ heart . So you think it is all nature , Davy, d he sai , with a lump gathering in his throat .

‘ W ou ell , well , I do , y know, sir it does f make a ellow ﬁt to cry a bit , somehow but

' ’ i t must be nathur , sir .

And Davy took o ff his blue worsted cap

and fumbled it and gave his troubled young

head a grave shake . Then there was some general talk about ’ f Davy s early history . Davy s ather had been f pressed into the army be ore Davy was born ,

and had afterwards been no more heard of ;

d u illeash then his mother had die , and Billy Q ,

’ being his mother s elder brother . had brought h im up . Davy had always sailed as boy with

Uncle Billy , he was sailing as boy then , and

2 1 6 TH E . I)E E M S TE R

Uncle Billy and him ’ s same as brothers

‘ s aid Davy ; and Un cle Billy s uncommon

’ n m middlin proud of the you g aster , and l ’ j ealous , too . Aw, wel who s wondering at

Crennel u Just then , the cook , came p to sa fa y that break st was ready , and Ewan and

’ a w D vy went belo , the young parson s hand

’ n resti g on the boy s shoulder . In the cabin

Dan w as im sitting by the stove , laughing moderately . Ewan saw at a glance that Dan h ad been drinking , and he forthwith elbowed

’ h i s way to Dan s side and lifted a brandy

bottle from the stove t 0p into t h e locker under

f f r pretence o ﬁnding a place o his hat . Then t all hands sat down to the able . There was a o f l huge dish potatoes boi ed in their j ackets ,

nd i a o f m an a a sim l r dish herrings . Every d o w f ipped int the dishes ith his hands . li ted

n his herring on to his plate , ran his ﬁ gers

f t h e off rom tail to head , swept all ﬂesh the TH E FIRST NIGHT WITH TH E HERRINGS 2 1 7

fresh ﬁsh , and threw the bare backbone into the crock that stood behind .

‘ Keep a corner fo r the Meailley at the

Three Legs , said Dan . There was to be a herring breakfast that morning at the ‘ Three Legs of Man to celebrate the O peni ng of the ﬁshing season .

’ You ll come , Ewan , eh

The young parson shook his head .

Dan was in great spirits , to which the spirits he had imbibed contributed a more than

saw common share . Ewan the too familiar light of dangerous mischief dancing in Dan ’ s

t s eyes , and made twenty at empt to keep the conversation within ordin ary bound s ofserious ness . But Dan was not to be restrained , and — breaking away into the homespun a sure indication that the old Adam was having the — u pper hand h e forthwith plunged into some ff cha that was started by the mate, Ned Teare , F ’ at Davy ayle s expense . 2 1 8 TH E DEEMSTE R

‘ ’ ’ Aw , ye wouldn t think it s true , would w ye , now said Ned , ith a wink at Dan and

a glime at Davy .

’ And what s that said Dan , with

another glime a t the lad .

‘ ’ ’ 0 t ac kin Why , that the like yander is

’ round the gels .

’ rael d D ye y mane it said Dan , ropping

and his herring lifting his eyes . m Ewan coughed with so e volume , and

’ a s id , There , there , Dan , there, there .

’ ‘ ‘ ’ snifﬁn snu ﬂin Yes , though , and and

ft ast oni sh in aba of them , Ned Teare put in

Aw ’ , well , well , well , said Dan , turning f up afresh the whites o his eyes . There was not a sign from Davy he broke

a f his potato more c re ully , and took both

a h nds and both eyes to strip away its j acket .

’ ’ someth in Yes , yes , the craythur s doing

’ u illeash in the spooney line , said Billy Q ;

2 20 TH E DEEMSTER

‘ ’ look at him there pret end in he never knows nothin

The big t ears were near to toppling out of

’ Davy s eyes . He could have borne the chaff from anyone but Dan . ‘ ’ w Dan, said E an , with a constrained ‘ i t ’ quietness , stop ; I can t stand it much

’ longer .

At that Davy got up from the table , leav “ f ing his unﬁnished break ast , and began to climb the hatchways . ‘ ’ h Aw, now , look at that , said Dan wit f a fected solemnity , and so saying , and not

’ heeding the change in Ewan s manner , Dan

“ f got up too and ollowed Davy out , put an arm

’ round the lad s waist , and tried to draw him ‘ ’ m back . Don t ind the loblolly boys , Davy ’ m . h i veg, he said coaxingly Davy pushed away with an angry word . ‘ What ’ s that he ’ s after saying ? ’ asked

u ill eash Q . TH E FIRST NIGHT WITH TH E HERRINGS 2 2 1

‘ ’ ’ o Nothin ; he nly cussed a bit , said

‘ ’ Cussed , did he He d better show a leg

’ ’ ’ if he don t wan t the rat s tail .

f hi s Then Ewan rose rom the table , and eyes ﬂashed and his pale face quivered .

‘ ’ ’ I ll tell you what it is , he said in a tense ,

‘ ’ tremulous voice ; there s not a man among

’ ’ o f you . You re a lot skulking cowards .

At that he was making fo r the deck but

f fu of o f Dan , whose ace , ll the ﬁre the liquor w he had taken , gre in one moment old and u f gly, leapt to his eet in a tempest of wrath , overturned his stool and rushed at Ewan with

afl ame f eyes and upli ted hand , and suddenly , f instantly , like a flash , his fist ell , and Ewan rolled on the floor . Then the men jumped up and crowded

e round in confusion . The parz n the

arz on arz on p God preserve me , the p

c ou nt e There stood Dan, with a ghastly 2 22 TH E DEEMSTER

nance , white and convulsed , and there at his feet lay Ewan .

’ A mi h t ! Masth a Masth a God g y Dan ,

’ Dan , cried Davy . Before the men had found

time to breathe, Davy had leapt back from the

’ f a deck to the cockpit , and had li ted Ew n s

head on to his knee . Ewan drew a long breath and opened his di eyes . He was blee ng from a gash above m the temple, having fallen a ong some refuse

of iron chain . Davy , still moaning piteously ,

’ Masth a God A mi h t Mast h a Oh , Dan , g y , ’ f ’ Dan , took a white handkerchie from Ewan s

breast , and bound it about his head over the

o wound . The blood ozed through and stained

the handkerchief.

a Ew n rose to his feet pale and trembling, and without looking at anyone steadied him ’ l self by Davy s shoulder , and clambered weak y

. f d to the deck There he stumbled orwar , sat

down on the coil of rope that had been his

2 24 TH E DEEM STER

saw Ewan lie where he fell , all the ﬁre of his

for evil passion seemed to die away , and the instant his heart seemed to choke him , and he was prompted to drop down and lift Ewan to his feet but at that moment his stubborn knees would not bend , and at the next moment the angel of God “ troubled the waters of his

ﬁ h r - heart no more . Then the s e fello ws over came their amazement , and began to crow , and

t to side wi h him , and to talk of his pluck , and what not .

arz on s— arz ons— The p och , the p they think they may ride a man down for half a

’ word inside his gills . — Cowards och , skulking cowards , if l ai z e— sarved I you p right , say I

Dan tramped abo u t the cabin restlessly and sometimes chuckled aloud and asked him f sel what did he care , and then laughed noisily, d and sat own to smoke , and presently j umped

th e s up , threw pipe into the open tove, and TH E FIRST N IGHT WITH TH E HERRINGS 2 25

took the brandy bottle out of the locker .

Where was Ewan What was h e doing ?

What was he looking li ke ? Dan wou ld rather have died than humbled himself to ask but would none of these grinning boobies tell him ? W m f hen Teare , the ate , came down rom the

sart en deck , and said that sure the young

’ arz on a p was afther sayin his pr yers up forrard ,

’ a Dan s eyes ﬂashed ag in , and he had almost lif ai s r l ted his hand to fell the sniggering w t e .

- a - He drank half tumbler of brandy , and pro

a et tested fresh , though none had y disputed it , that he cared nothing , not he, let them say what they liked to the contrary . In ﬁfteen minutes from the time of the

ru nnin in Dan quarrel the ﬂeet was g t o harbour . had leaped on deck j ust as the Ben - my - Chree touched the two streams outside Contrary . He

f n ﬁrst looked orward , and saw Ewan sitti g on the cable in the bo w with his eyes shut and h i s pallid face sunk deep in his breast . Then

VO L . I 2 26 TH E DEEMSTER

’ t n a strange , wild light sho i to Dan s eyes , and he reeled aft an d plucked the tiller from the

o f - t hand Corlett , and set it hard apor , and drove the boat head on for t h e narrow neck of water that ﬂowed between the mainland and

- n the island rock o which the old castle stood .

‘ ’ H o u ld r u uilleash ha d , sho ted old Billy Q ,

‘ ’ ’ there s not water enough fo r the like 0 that

’ you ll run her on the rocks .

Then Dan laughed wildly , and his voice

c rang among the coves and aves of the coast .

’ ’ o r — Here s for the harbour hell , he

and h o f screamed , then anot er wild peal his m ad laughter rang in the air and echoed from the land .

‘ ’ What s agate o f the young mast h a the men muttered o ne to another ; and with eyes of fear they stood stock - still on the deck and s aw themselves driven on towards the s hoals of the little sound . m f In two inutes more they breathed reely .

2 28 TH E DE E /VI S TE R

look more he walked away, the white hand

h is kerchief, clotted with blood, still about d forehead , and his hat carried in his han . On the quay there were numbers of ﬁ h women with baskets waiting to buy the s .

Crennel Teare, the mate , and , the cook , counted the herrings and sold them . The rest of the crew stepped ashore .

Dan went away with the rest . His face was u livid in the soft morning s nlight . He was still keeping up his brave outside, while th e madness was growing every moment

ﬁ erc r e within . As he stumbled along the paved way with an unsteady step his hollow laugh grated on the quiet air . R XI CHAPTE .

TH E H E RRI N G BRE A KFA ST.

’ I T was between four o clock and five when the fleet ran into Peeltown harbour after the first

of night the herring season , and towards eight

fi sh er- the fellows , to the number of fifty at least had gathered for their customary first breakfast in the kitchen o f the Three Legs of ’ I ! Man . What sport What noisy laughter What singing and rollicking cheers The men stood neither on the order of their coming

t t n nor heir going , their sit i g nor their standing . In they trooped in their woollen caps or their

’ so u west ers r il r broad , thei o skins or thei long

s ea - boots swung across their arms . They

were their caps or not as pleased them , they 230 TH E DE E I WS TER

s ang or talked as suited them , they laughed o r e e sneezed , they sulked or snarled , th y w re n o r il o f oisy s ent, precisely as the whim the i individual prescribed, the indiv dual rule of R manners . ather later than the rest Dan

M l rea y came swinging in , with a loud laugh and a shout , and something like an oath , too , and the broad homespun on his lips .

u ill eash —I — Billy Q say , Billy , there why

’ d on t y o u put up the young m asth a for the c hair A w ’ , lave me alone , answered Billy Quil l a o f eash , with contemptuous toss the head . Uncle Billy’ s proud uncommon of the " masth a le , whispered Davy a , who sat

n meekly on a form ear the door, to the man

- who sat cross legged on the form beside him .

’ ’ It s a bit free them chaps is making, s aid old Billy , in a conﬁdential undertone to

Dan , who was stretching himself out on the f s . ettle Then rising to his eet with gravity,

2 3 2 TH E DEEMSTER ba rley and cabbage then suet puddings and last of all the frying - pan was taken d own f f rom the wall , and our or ﬁve dozen of fresh herrings were made to grizzle and crackle and sputter over the ﬁre .

Dan ate ravenously , and laughed noisily,

n i as a d talked ncessantly he ate . The men at ﬁ rst caught the contagion of his boisterou s

ft m manners , but a er a ti e they shook their touzled heads and laid them together in grav it v

’ a and began to repeat in whispers , What s gate of m asth a a t ? the young , all at all

Away went the dishes , away went the

c m —a loth , an oil lamp with its open outh

relic o f some monkish sanctuary of the middle — ages was lifted from the mantelshelf and

put on the table for the receipt o f custo m ;

a brass censer , choked with spills , was placed beside it pipes emerged from waistcoat

and pockets , and pots of liquor, with glasses

m u bottles , came in fro the o ter bar . TH E HERRING BREA KFAST 2 3 3

Is it heavy on the liquor you ’ re going to be , Billy said Ned , the mate and old Billy replied with a superior smile and the lifting

of f m h e up a whisky bottle , ro which had just drawn the cork .

Then came the toasts . The chairman

‘ h o oraa f arose amid hip , hip , and gave Li e t o man and d eath to ﬁsh ! and Qu illea sh gave

Death to the head that never were hair ! m Then came ore noise and more liquor ,

and a good deal o f both in the vicinity of

the chair . Dan struck up a song . He sang

’ Drink to me only , and the noisy company were at ﬁrst hushed to silence and then melted

to audible sobs . ‘ ! Aw , man , the voice he has , any way

‘

. t h e And the loud it is , and tender, too ,

and and the way he slidders up and down , no

’ squeaks and j umps .

‘ ’ ’ no s u eez in No , ; nothin like q a tune out i ’ of an ould sow by pull ng the tail at her . 2 34 TH E DEEMSTER

Old Billy listened to this dialogue among

ﬁ sh er - hi m f the fellows about , and smiled lo tily .

‘ ’ " ’ d d n s It s nothin he sai , condescen i gly, that

’ “ o u nothin . You should hear him t in the

’ boat , when we re lying at anchor, and me

’ n and him together , and the stars just maki

- ﬁ re a peep , and the moon , and the mar , and

all to that , and me and him lying aft and

’ smo okin , and having a glass maybe , but nothin ’ to do no harm—that ’ s the when you should hear him . Aw, man alive , him and

’ me s same as brothers .

’ More liquor there , shouted Dan , climbing with difﬁculty to his feet . A ’ y , look here . D ye hear down yander

’

ri . Give us a swipe o them spee t s Right .

’ More liquor for the chair ! said Billy Quil

‘ — leash . And for some one besides is

’ n that what they re sayi g , the loblolly boy s

o f c oors e Well, look here , bad cess to it , , some

’ for narves me , too . It s terrible good for the ,

236 TH E DEEMSTER

repeated by the whole company in chorus . f d Dole ul as the itty might be , the men gave it voice with a heartiness that suggested no w special sense of sorro , and loud as were the

’ ﬁ sh er - voices of the fellows , Dan s voice was yet louder .

’ m an Aw , Dan , , Dan , man alive , Dan , the

‘ ’ men whispered among themselves . What s

’ ’ of Masth a agate Dan , it s more than s good , man , aw , yes , yes , yes .

Still more liquor and yet more noise , and

d u then , through the ense f mes of tobacco

u ill eash smoke , old Billy Q could be seen struggling to his feet . Silence he shouted ‘ ! ’ Aisy there and he lifted up his glass .

‘ ’ ’ ’ Mi s th a M l rea if Here s to Dan l y , and he s

arz on s not going amongst the p , bad cess to

’ them , he s going amongst the Kays , and when

’ he gets to the big house at Castletown , I m

’ ’ ’ c alkerl at in it ll be all up with the lot 0 them p arz on s e , with th ir tithes and their censures , TH E HERRING BREA KFAST 237

and m and their custo s and their canons ,

’ their regal ash u n s agen the c ou ntin of the

’ of herrin , and all the rest their messin W’ hat d ye say , men Skulking cowards

d i s arv ed C o orse an . , r ght , too , as I say And

’ ’ ’ winkin what s that you re grinning and at ,

’ ’ ’ ’ Ned Teare It s mid dlin free you re gettin

’ m asth a w t m e with the anyho , and if it wasn for he wouldn ’ t bemane himself by comin ’ among

’ ’ o f the like you , singin and makin aisy .

u Chaps , ﬁll p your glasses every man of you ,

’ ’ ’ ’ d ye hear ? Here s to the best gen l m an in

’ —Mi sth a M l rea the island , bar none Dan l y

h ooraa hip , hip , d The toast was responde to with alacrity,

’ and loud shouts o f Dan l Mylrea - best

’ ’ en l m n— g a bar none .

But what was going on at the head of the

table Dan had risen from the elbow - chair it was the moment for him to respond , but d he stared wil ly around , and stood there in 2 38 TH E DE E JI S TE R

silence , and his tongue seemed to cleave to his f mouth . Every eye was now ﬁxed on his ace , and that face quivered and turned white . The glass he had held in his hand fell from

n his nerveless ﬁ gers , and broke on the table .

Laughter died on every lip , and the voices were hushed . At last Dan spoke his words f came slowly, and ell heavily on the ear .

‘ ’ ‘ Men , he said , you have been drinking m . e my health You call a good fellow .

’ ’ That s wrong . I m the worst man among

’ you . Old Billy says I m going to the House ’ l of Keys . That s wrong , too . Shall I tel you

’ where I am going Shall I tell y ou I m

’ going to the devil , and then , amid breathless

u silence , he dropped back in his seat, and b ried his head in his hands . f i No one spoke . The a r head lay on the table among broken pipes and t h e refuse of spilled liquor . There could be no more drinking that m orning . Every man rose to

240 TH E DEEMSTER

R XII CHAPTE .

’

DA N S P E N AN C E .

DA N rose to his feet a sobered man and went out of the smoky pothouse without a word to f anyone, and without li ting his bleared and f bloodshot eyes unto any ace . He took the

and lane to the shore , behind him , with down cast eyes , like a dog at the heels of his master,

Fa l e Davy y slouched along . When they reached the shore Dan turned towards Orri s

Head , walking within a yard or two of the

’ water s edge . Striding over the sands , the

of past , the past his childhood came back to

o f f him with a sense pain . He saw himsel

and ﬂying along the beach with Ewan Mona ,

shouting at the gull , mocking the cormorant, ’ DAN S PENANCE 2 41 clambering up the rocks to where the long t necked bird laid her spo ted eggs , and the sea - pink grew under the fresh grass o f the

corries . Under the head Dan sat on a rock and lifted away his cap from his burnin g fore h ead ; but not a breath o f wind stirred his . soft hair .

Dan rose again with a new resolve . He knew now what course he must take . He f would go to the Deemster, con ess to the out

of rage which he had been guilty, and submit to the just punishment of the law . With quick steps he strode back over the beach , and Davy followed him until he turned up to the

new Ball amona gates of the , and then the lad

f of Sli u Dh rambled away under the oot e o o . f ’ Dan ound the Deemster s house in a tumult .

H o mm - y beg was rushing here and there , and hi m Dan called to , but he waved his arm and shouted something in reply whereof the pur t por was lost , and then disappeared . Blind

VO L . I . 2 42 TH E DEEMSTER

as Kerry was there, and when Dan spoke to her

ul she went up the stairs , he co d gather nothing from her hurried answer except that someone

morth al was bad, as the saying was , and in

another moment she , too , had gone . Dan

stood in the hall with a sense o f impending

disaster . What had happened A dread idea struck h im at that moment like a blow

on the brain . The sweat started from his

forehead . He could bear the uncertainty no f longer, and had set oot on the stairs to follow the blind woman when there was the sound of

‘ a light step descending . In another moment f M he stood ace to face with ona . She coloured ll f deeply , and his head fe be ore her .

it e Is Ewan he said , and his voice cam

like a hoarse whisper .

‘ ’

0 . N , his wife , said Mona It turned out that not long aft er daybreak f that morning the young wi e of Ewan , who

n w e a had slept with Mo a, had a ak ned with

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an o ff early breakfast , that he was going to

a t R c hold his court amsay , and expe ted to be back at midday . Then , half timidly, Mona had told her father of their strange experience, but he had bantered them on their folly, and they had still heard his laughter when he had leapt to the saddle in front of the house , and R was cantering away over the gravel . e ’ f assured by the Deemster s unbelie , the girls

o ff had thrown their vague misgivings , and

’ given way to good spirits . Ewan s young wife had said th at all morning she had dreamt

o f her husband , and that her dreams had been

bright and h appy . They had gone down to f break ast , but scarcely had they been seated at the table before they had heard the click of f the gate rom the road .

Then they had risen together , and Ewan had come up the path with a white bandage

d o f about his hea , and with a streak blood

’ above the temple . With a sharp cry, Ewan s ’ DAN S PENANCE 245 young wife had fallen to the ground in w sensible, and when E an himself had come into the house they had carried her back to bed . There she was at that moment, and from a peculiar delicacy of her health at the f time , there was but too much reason to ear that the shock might have serious results . All this Mona told to Dan from where

she stood three steps up the stairs , and he

o ne listened with his head held low, hand f gripping the stair rail , and his oot pawing

the mat at the bottom . When she ﬁnished ,

there was a pause , and then there came from

o f overhead a long, deep moan pain . Dan lifted his face its sudden pallor was

‘ ’ . t startling Mona, he said , in a voice hat

‘ was husky in his throat, do you know who str uck Ewan that blow

for There was silence a moment , and then f f hal in a whisper, hal with a sob , Mona

answered that she knew . It had not been 246 TH E DEEMS TE R

f from Ewan himsel , but by one of the many tongues of scandal that the news had come to

Ball am ona .

Dan railed at himself in bitter words , and called God to witness that he had been a

u curse to himself and everyone abo t him .

Mona let the torrent of his self- reproach spend itself, and then she said

‘ ’ Dan, you must be reconciled to Ewan .

‘ ’

w . Not yet , he ans ered

‘ 111 f Yes , yes , I sure he would orgive ’ u if you, said Mona, and she turned abo t as

ac o f fo r in the t going back to seek Ewan .

‘ ’

r . Dan grasped her hand ﬁ mly No , he

‘ ’ of h said , don t heap coals ﬁre on my ead ,

’ ’ ’ n f Mona ; do t, don t . And a ter a moment ,

‘ with a calmer manner , I must see the

Deemster ﬁrst . Hardly had this been spoken when they

’ f and heard a horse s hoo s on the gravel path ,

’ the Deemster s voice calling to H o mmy - beg

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not and bend as he said slowly, in a low tone ,

‘ ’ If you don t do it, sir, I shall never look

’ ’ into Ewan s face again .

The Deemster ﬁxed his buckles , rose to

‘ his feet, slapped Dan on the back , said Go

’ home , man .veen , go home , and then hurried away to the kitchen, where in another moment his testy voice could be heard direct ing H ommy - beg to pu t up the saddle on the

‘ ’ lath .

’ n ‘ Mo a looked into D an s face . Will you be reconciled to Ewan now she said , and took both his hands and held them .

‘ ’ ‘ No , he answered ﬁrmly , I will see the ’ f Bishop . His eyes were dilated his ace , f that had hitherto been very mourn ul to see , was alive with a strange ﬁre . Mona held his hands with a passionate grasp .

‘ ’ Dan , she said , with a great tenderness ,

‘ this is very , very noble of you this is like our Dan , this DAN ’ S PEN ANCE 249

She stopped ; she trembled and glowed ; her eyes were close to his .

’ ’ Don t look at me like that , he said .

She dropped his hands , and at the next f instant he was gone rom the house .

’ Dan found the Bishop at Bishop s Court, and told him all . The Bishop had heard the

story already , but he said nothing of that . He knew when Dan hid his provocation and i painted his offence at ts blackest . With a grave face he listened while Dan accused f himsel , and his heart heaved within him . ff ’ ‘ It is a serious o ence , he said to strike ff a minister is a grievous o ence , and the

’ Church provides a censure . f Dan held his ace very low, and clasped

of his hands in front him .

‘ Th e censure is that on the next Sabbath

n f o f morni g ollowing , in the presence the

a of congregation , you shall w lk up the aisle the parish church from the porch to the 2 59 TH E DEEMSTER

uni Comm on behind the minister , who shall

’ h l s read t e 5 t Psalm meantime .

’ The Bishop s deep tones and quiet manner

Dan concealed his strong emotion , and went out without another word . hi F T s was riday , and on the evening of the same day Ewan heard what had passed between Dan and the Deemster and between

Dan and the Bishop , and with a great lump

’ in hi s throat he went across to Bishop s

Court to pray that the censure might be ff taken o .

n The provocation was mi e, and he is

’ penitent , said Ewan ; and with heaving breast the Bishop heard him out , and then shook his head .

‘ The censures o f the Church were never

’ of meant to pass by the house the Bishop , he said .

’ But he is too deeply abased already, said

Ewan .

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f had eked out , and long be ore the hour of service the parish church was crowded . The

'— ’ riﬂ raff that never came to church from year s

’ O iel end to year s end , except to celebrate the

Verree , were there with eager eyes . While

Will - as - Thorn tolled the bell from the rope suspended in the porch there was a low buzz o f but gossip , when the bell ceased its hoarse

- - clangour , and Will as Thorn appeared with his

- pitch pipe in the front of the gallery , there could be heard in the silence that followed over the crowded church the loud tick of the f old wooden clock in ront of him . Presently from the porch there came a low tremulous voice reading the Psalm that begins ,

’ H av e m erc O y upon me, God , after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy ff ’ mercies do away mine o ences . Then the people who sat in front turned about , and those who sat at the side strained across , and those who sat above craned f w or ard . ’ DA N S PENANCE 2 53

Ewan was walking slowly up the aisle in f his surplice , with his pale ace and scarred

forehead bent low over the book in his hand , h im and close behind him , towering above in

his great stature , with head held down , but

with a steadfast gaze , his hat in his hands ,

t M l rea his s ep ﬁrm and resolute , Dan y strode

along . There was a dead hush over the congre

‘ W' ash me throughl y from my wickedness F and cleanse me from my sin . or I acknow

ledge my faults : and my sin is ever before

The tremulous voice rose and fell, and

nothi ng else broke the silence except the u n

of an d certain step the reader , the strong tread

of the penitent behind him . s d Again t thee only have I sinne , and done this evil in thy sight

At this the tremulous voice deepened , and 2 54 TH E DEEMS TE R

stopped , and went on and stopped again , and when the words came once more they came in

’ l o w f a deep , sob and the reader s head ell into

his breast . N ot until the Psalm came to an end , and

Ewan and Dan had reached the Communion ,

and the Vicar had begun the morning prayer ,

— - and Will as Thorn had sent o u t a blast from

- of his pitch pipe , was the hard tension that

moment broken . When the morning service ended the Deemster rose from his pew and hurried down

a . t the isle As usual , he was the ﬁrs to leave

the church . The ghostly smile with which he had witnessed the penance that had brought tears to the eyes o f others was still on the

’ i n Deemster s lip , and a chuckle was his

throat when at the gate o f the churchyard he m et H o mm - y beg, whose face was livid from a long run , and who stood for an instant panting

r fo breath .

2 56 TH E DEEMSTER

R X CHAPTE III .

H O W E WAN MO URN E D F O R H I S WI FE .

WH AT passed at the new Ball amon a on that

’ morning of Dan s penance was very pitiful .

There in the death chamber, already darkened

’ lay Ewan s young wife, her eyes lightly closed,

u her girlish feat res composed , and a faint

tinge of colour in her cheeks . Her breast was f f hal open , and her beauti ul head lay in a f pillow of her so t brown hair . One round arm

was stretched over the counterpane , and the

deli cate ﬁngers were curved inwards until th e

- an d thumb nail , like acorn , reste on the inner f o . rim a ring Quiet, peaceful , very sweet and tender , she lay there like one who slept . After

sh e d a short , sharp pang had ied gently, with H O W E WAN MO URNED F O R H I S WIFE 2 57

out a struggle , almost without a sigh , merely

n closi g her eyes as one who was weary, and

drawing a long , deep breath . In dying she had given premature birth to a child , a girl , f f and the in ant was alive, and was taken rom the mother at the moment of death . “Then the Deemster entered the room with

o f of f a face great pallor and eyes ear ,

Mona was standing by the b ed - head gazing down , but seeing nothing . The Deemster felt the pulse of the arm over the counterpane with ﬁngers that trembled visibly . Then he w shot a ay from the room , and was no more

’ - t . f seen tha day The vicar, the child wi e s t fa her, came with panting breath and stood by

for the bedside a moment , and then turned

a . a be side in silence Ewan c me , too , and hind him Dan walked to the door and there

w of stopped , and let E an enter the chamber

his great sorrow alone . Not a word was said until E wan went down on his knees by the

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hi s u side of wife , and put his arms abo t her,

and kissed her lips , still warm , with his own far colder lips , and called to her softly by her n ame, as though she slept gently , and must not be awakened too harshly, and drew her

in to his breast, and called again a tenderer tone that brushed the upturned face like a caress ‘ Aileen ! Aileen ! Aileen

o M na covered her eyes in her hands , and

h i s Dan , where he stood at the door, turned head away . ‘ Aileen Ailee Ailee ! My Ailee The voice went like a whisper and a kiss into the deaf ear , and only one other sound was heard , and that was the faint cry of an f f in ant rom a room below . Ewan raised his head and seemed to listen ; he paused and looked at the faint colour in the quiet cheeks he put his hand lightly on the heart, and looked long at the

2 60 TH E DEEMSTER

Dan could bear up no longer ; his heart i was chok ng, and he went out without a word . It was the dread silence of feeling that

t i was frozen , but the haw came in its t me .

They laid out the b ody of the young wife in t h e a darkened room , and Ew n went away and rambled over the house all day long, and when night fell in , and the lighted candles were set in the death chamber, and a ll Ball amona off a in were going to bed , Ew n was still rambling aimlessly from room to r v oom . He was ery quiet, and he spoke l ittle and did not weep at all . In the middle of that night the Deemster opened his bed

’ r oom door and listened , and Ewan s step w as l stil passing from room to room , and Mona heard the same restless footfall in every f l ﬁt u . break of her sleep But later on , in t h e f dark hour that comes be ore day, the

Deemster opened his door and listened again , H O W E WAN MO URNED F O R H I S WI FE 26 1:

‘ H e and then all was quiet in the house .

’ th e has gone to bed at last, thought

Deemster ; but in the early morning as h e

’ passed by Ewan s room he fou nd the door '

and n open , saw that the bed had not bee

in slept . k The second day went by li e the ﬁrst,

ni and the next ght like the former one , and again in the dead o f night the Deemster

’ opened his door and heard Ewan s step .

Once more in the dark hour that goes before the day he opened his door and listened

‘

and . u again , all was quiet as before S rely

’ he is in bed now, thought the Deemster .

He was turning back into hi s own room when he felt a sudden impulse to go t o

’ Ewan s room ﬁrst and see if it was as h e supposed . He went, and the door was open and Ewan was not there, and again the bed

in had not been slept .

and The Deemster crept back on tiptoe, 262 TH E DEEMSTER

f a gruesome feeling took hold o him . He

could not lie , and no sleep had come near his

fu wake l eyes , so he waited and listened for

u that nquiet beat of restless feet , but the

sound did not come . Then , as the day was

i Sli eu Dh oo break ng over the top of , and all

a the Curr ghs around lay veiled in mist , and far away to the west a deep line stretched across where the dark sea lay with the li ght enin g sky above it, the Deemster opened his

n door yet agai , and went along the corridor steadily until he came to the door o f the

‘ room where the body was . Perhaps he is

’ n sitti g with her, he thought , with awe , and he turned the handle . But when the door swung open the Deemster paused a faint sound broke the sil ence ; it was a soft and

u measured breathing from within . Q ivering with dread , the Deemster stepped into the

- death chamber, and his head turned rigidly

of towards the bed . There , in the gloom

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and ill himself of every disaster , st Ewan

gave no sign , but went in and out among

them all with the vacant light in his eyes ,

then the Bishop whispered to Mona , and she

a in went out and presently came gain , and her arms was the i nfant in its white linen

clothes .

The sun was n o w hidden beh ind the

o heavy cloud verhead , and against the

window - panes at that moment there was a

- w light pattering of rain drops . E an had watched with his vacant gaze when Mona

new went out, but when she came again a

and light seemed to come into his eyes , he stepped up to her and looked down at the little face that was sleeping softly against h her breast . T en he put out his arms to take the child , and Mona passed it to him, and he held it , and sat down with it , and all at once the tears came into his dry eyes and he wept aloud . R XIV CHAPTE .

WI TH FA TE WRE STL I N G .

as concerned the Deemster this death

’ of n of en Ewan s wife was the beginni g the d .

Had she not died under the roof o f the new

Ballamona Was it no t by the strangest of

accidents that she had died there, and not in her own home Had she not died in child bed ‘ Did not everything attending her death suggest the force of an irresistible fate ? More than twenty years ago the woman

Kerrui sh of Kerrui sh , the mother Mally , had f cursed this house, and said that no li e would l come to it but death wou d come with it . And for more than twenty years the Deemster had done his best to laugh at the 2 66 TH E DEEMSTER

prediction and to forget it . Who was he that he should be the victim of fear at the sneezing of an old woman What was he that he should not be master of his fate ? But what had occurred ? For more than twenty years one disturbing and distinct idea had engrossed him . In all his waking hours

n it exasperated him , and eve in his hours of sleep it lay heavy at t h e back of his brain as f o . a dull feeling dread On the bench, in the

’ saddle , at table , alone by the winter s ﬁre , alone in summer walks , the obstinate idea was always there . And nothing but death ff seemed likely to shake it o .

f u l O ten he la ghed at it in his ong,

” lingering, nervous laugh ; but it was a chain that was slowly tightening about him .

Everything was being fulﬁlled . First came

t h e the death of his wife at birth of Mona,

f o f and now , a ter an interval twenty years , the death of his son ’ s wife at the birth of

268 TH E DEEMSTER n ow there grew upon him an obstinate hatred of everybody . This was in the d ays when his children , Ewan and Mona, lived in the

’ cosy nest at Bishop s Court . If in these days any man mentioned th e Kerrui sh es in the

’ a bu t Deemster s presence, he showed irrit tion ,

he kept his ears open for every syllable said

about them . He knew all their history ; h e knew when the girl Mally ﬂed away from the island on the day of Ewan s christening ; he knew by wh at boat sh e sailed h e knew '

where she settled herself in England ; he w kne when her child was born , and when in terror at the unfulﬁlled censure of the Church

that hung over her (separating her from al l communion with God ’ s people in life or hope

of redemption in d eath) she came back to the

island , drawn by an irresistible idea, her child

o n th e at her breast, to work out her penance

scene of her shame . f w Therea ter he watched her daily, and kne WRESTLING WITH FA TE 2 69

her life . She had been taken back to work at

- Ki nvi the net looms of g, the Peeltown net

maker, and she lived with her mother at the

cottage over the Head , and there in poverty d she brought up her chil , her boy , Jarvis

i sh hi m Kerru . , as she had called If any

pointed at her and laughed with cruelty ; if any pretended to sympathise with her and

said, with a snigger, The ﬁrst error is always if forgiven, Mally woman any mentioned f the Deemster himsel , and said, with a wink , ’ hi I m t nking it terrible strange , Mally , that you don’ t take a slue round and put a sight on him if any said to her when she bought

o f n a new garment out her scant earni gs , a

gown or even a scarf or bit of bright ribbon

‘ Dearee such as she loved in the old days ,

’ ul dear I thought you wo dn t take rest, but be up and put a sight on the ould — the Deemster knew it all . He ruddy audacious girl of twenty sink into the 2 70 TH E DEEMSTER

t o f pallid sla tern thirty , without hope , without f j oy in li e , and with only a single tie . And the Deems ter found that there grew upon him daily his old malicious feeling but

so far as concerned his outer bearing matters

took a turn o n the day he came upon the

M l rea Kerru i sh ﬁ h t boys , Dan y and Jarvis , g

ing in the road . It was the ﬁrst time he had

‘ ’ seen the boy Jarvis . Who is he ? he had

old Kerrui sh asked , and the woman had made

‘ ’ ou ? answer, Don t y know him , Deemster

Do y ou never see a face like that ? Not when you look in the glass There was no need to look twice into a mirror like the face o f that lad to know h whose son e was .

Ball amona The Deemster went home to ,

and thought over the ﬁerce encounter . He could tolerate no longer the living reproach

’ of this boy s presence within a few mil es of his own house , and, by an impulse no better

272 TH E DEEMSTE R it was a ﬁre of sputtering hazel sticks sh redding some scraps of green vegetables into a pot of broth that swung from the iron hook

of . the chimney The other woman , Mally, was doing something in the dark crib of a

o ff i m sleeping room , shut from the liv ng roo by a wooden partition like the stanchion board of a stable . The boy was asleep ; his soft breathing came from the dark crib .

’ K rrui sh . e Mrs , said the Deemster, I am willing to take the lad , and rear him and

th e him when time comes to set to business ,

s and give him a tart in life .

Kerrui sh f Mrs . had risen sti ﬂy fr om her stool , and her face was set hard .

’ of Think it , woman , think of it, and don t

’ an . swer in haste , said the Deemster

’ We d have to be despard hard put to for a bite and a sup before we ’ d take anything

’ from you , Deemster, said the old woman . ’ e The D emster s quick eyes , under the WRESTLING WITH FA TE 2 73

a shaggy grey brows , glanced bout the room .

of t o It was a place poverty , descending

of squalor . The ﬂoor was the bare earth

of trodden hard, the roof was the bare thatch , with here and there a lath pushed between

and the unhewn spars to keep it up , here and

- there a broken patch dropping hay seed .

n You are desperate hard put to , woma ,

said the Deemster , and at that Mally herself

of f came out the sleeping crib . Her ace was

thin and pale , and her bleared eyes had lost their sharp light it was a countenance with f out one ray o hope .

’ ‘ Stop , mother, she said , let us hear what ff ’ the Deemster has to o er . Offer Offer the old woman rapped

‘ ’ ’ out ; you ve had enough of the Deemster s ff ’ ’ o ers , I m thinking .

‘ ’ n Be quiet , mother, said Mally, and the

‘ and she turned to the Deemster said , Well , sir, and what is it

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Aw , very nate and amazing civil to dirks

’ — o like that g on , girl , go on , said the old woman , tossing her head and hand in anger towards Mally .

’ n Mother, this is my concern , I m thinki g

what is it , sir But the old woman ’ s wrath at her

’ daughter s patience was not to be kept down .

‘ ‘ ’ Behold ye she said , it s my own girl that’ s after telling me before strangers that ’ f I ve not a arthing at me , and me good for nothing at working , and only ﬁt to hobble about on a stick , and ﬁx the house tidy

— o maybe, and to have no say in nothing g

’ on , och , go on , girl .

The Deemster explained his proposal . It was that the boy Jarvis should be given i entirely nto his control , and be no more

’ known by his mother and his mother s mother, an d perhaps no more seen or claimed or ac m knowledged by them , and that the Dee ster

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hopelessness that had spoken from her eyes m see ed then to ﬁnd a way into her voice .

The end o f it was that Jarvis Kerru ish

re was sent to a school at Liverpool , and

mained there three years , and then became a

- clerk in the counting house of Benas Brothers ,

of s f the Goree Piazza , o tensibly A rican mer

- chants , really English money lenders . Jarvis

f of did not ret at the loss his mother , and of co urse he never wrote to her ; but he ad dressed a careful letter to the Deemster twice

‘ ’ b n a year, eginning Honoured sir, and endi g

Yours , with much respect , most obediently .

- Mally had miscalculated her self command .

If she had thought o f her poverty it had been

o f because she had thought her boy as well .

He would be lifted above it all if ‘ she could f t but bring hersel to par with him . She wrought up her feelings to the sacriﬁce , and d gave away her son , and sat own as a broken spirited and childless woman . Then she IVRE S TL IN G WITH FA TE 2 77

realised the price she had to pay . The boy had been the cause o f her shame bu t he had been the centre of her pride as well . If she h ad f been a hopeless woman be ore , she was n ow a heartless one . Little by little she fell

/ into habits of idleness and intemperance . Before young Jarvis sat in his frilled shirt on f the stool in the Goree Piazza , and be ore the

h i s down had begun to show on lean cheeks ,

was his mother a lost and abandoned woman . But not yet had the Deemster broken his f ate . When Ewan disappointed his hopes and went into the Church and married without his

sanction or knowledge , it seemed to him that i h im the cha n was gradually tightening about .

Then the Deemster went over o nce more to

a and the cottage at the Cross Vein , lone , in the night .

‘ ’ ‘ Kerru i sh n Mrs . , he said , I am willi g to

a w o u . six llo y pounds a year pension, and I will pay it in three pound notes on Lady Day 2 78 TH E DEEMSTER

’ a nd Martinmas , and putting his ﬁrst payment o n the table he turned about and was gone before the rheumatic old body could twist in

r h e chair . The Deemster had just made his third v ft isit to the cottage at the Cross Vein , and le

’ h i s of second payment , when the death Ewan s young wife came as a thunderbolt and startled F him to the soul . or days and nights there a a fter he went about like beaten horse, v trembling to the ery bone . He had resisted the truth for twenty years he had laughed at it in his long lingering laugh at going to bed at night and at rising in the morning ;

h ad he ridiculed superstition in others , and punished it when he could he was the j udge o f the island, and she through whose mouth his fate fell upon h im was a miserable r uin

’ c ast aside on life s highway ; but the tr uth would be resisted no longer the house over h i s — h i head was accursed accursed to m,

2 80 TH E DEEMSTER as Saul when the Spirit of the Lord had gone from him and an evil spirit troubled him , s ending for the anointed son of Jesse to play o n the harp to him and to supplant him on t h e throne . R XV CHAPTE .

TH E L I E TH A T E ‘VA N TO L D .

not for long that Dan bore the signs

’ o f contrition . As soon as Ewan s pale face

’ o f had lost the weight its gloom , Dan s curly

x f poll knew no more o trouble . He followed

all the herrings through that season , grew

brown with the sun and the briny air , and

’ cau ght the sea s laughter in his rollicking f f m voice . He dri ted into some bad habits ro

in which he had hitherto held himself check . Every morning when the boats ran into

Crennel harbour , and Teare , the mate , and ,

the cook , stayed behind to sell the ﬁsh , Dan

and old Billy Quilleash trooped up to the

‘ ’ Man Three Legs of together . There Dan 2 82 TH E DE E IWS TE R

’ was o f made much , and the lad s spirit was f not proo against the poor ﬂattery . It was

Masth a Mast h a Dan here , and Dan there, and

Where is Masth a Dan ? and What does

? Mast h a t Dan say and great shou ings , and t earin s g , and sprees and all the time the old cat with the whiskers who kept the

pot - house was scoring up against Dan at the

of back the cupboard door . Did the Bishop know ? Know ? Did ever a young fellow go to the dogs but some

old woman of either sex fo und her way to the very ear that ought not to be tormented with ’ f ‘ d Job s com ort, and whisper , Aw, ear aw ,

‘ — ‘ ’ dear and Lawk - a day ! and I m the last

’ to bring bad newses , as the saying is , and

‘ ’ Och , and it s a pity, and him a ﬁne , brave

‘ ’ young fellow too and , I wouldn t have told it on no account to another living soul

‘ said lit tl e The Bishop , and tried not to

hear ; but when Dan would have hood

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Ewan ’ s wife the Deemster ’ s feelings towards

Dan had undergone a complete change .

From that time forward he looked on Dan w ith eyes of distrust , amounting in its f intensity to hatred . He orbade him his house , though Dan laughed at the prohibition and ignored it . He also went across to

’ t fo r for Bishop s Cour the ﬁrst time ten years , and poured into the Bishop ’ s ears the story of every bad bit of business in which Dan got involved . Dan kept him fully employed

r ’ in this egard , and Bishop s Court saw the

Deemster at frequent intervals .

’ If it was degrading to the Bishop s place as father of the Church that his son should

‘ ’ w ra abash o f l consort ith all the gg the is and ,

and f the scum of the land , the dirtiest roth w of the sea , the Bishop was made to kno

f of t the ull bitterness tha degradation . He would listen with head held down , and when the Deemster , passing from remonstrance to TH E L I E THA T E WAN TOLD 2 85

h im reproach , would call upon to set his own house in order before he ever ascended the

t h e f pulpit again , Bishop would li t his great

k of heavy eyes with an agonised loo appeal ,

‘ and answer in a voice like a sob , Have

Th o rkell patience , , have patience with the m ’ lad ; he is my son , y only son .

It chanced that tow ards the end o f the

m an o f herring season an old eighty , one

William Callow , died , and he was the captain f o the parish of Michael . The captaincy was

- - fﬁ i t in a semi civil, semi military o ce , and

f - cluded the unctions of parish head constable .

h ad of Callow been a man extreme probity , f t and his walk in li e had been wi hout a slip . The ould man ’ s left no living craythur to

’ ﬁll his shoes , the people said when they

of buried him , but when the name the old ’ f m man s successor came down ro Castletown , who should be the new captain but Daniel

M l rea ? d y The people were amaze , the 2 86 TH E DEEMSTER

Deemster laughed in his throat , and Dan f himsel looked appalled . Hardly a month after this event the

relations of Dan and the Deemster , and Dan

and the Bishop reached a climax . For months past the Bishop had been

hatching a scheme for the subdivision of his

episcopal glebe , the large extent of which had long been a burden on the dwindling energies of his advancing age and he had determined

of that , since his son was not to be a minister f the Church , he should be its tenant , and arm

o ff its lands . So he cut from the demesne a f o f of arm eighty acres ﬁne Curragh land , d well d rained and tille . This would be a

stay and - a solid source o f livelihood to Dan when the herring ﬁshing h ad ceased to be a

- o n pastime . There was no farm house the eighty acres , but barns and stables were to be erected , and Dan was to share with Ewan

l am ona the old Bal as a home .

2 88 TH E DEEMSTER

up his numbers again with the same result . — Then he computed the provisioning tea , at

n f four shilli gs a pound , besides resh meat four

“

times a week , and ﬁne ﬂour biscuits . It was

heavy but not ruinous , and the season had

v been poor but not bad , and , whate er the net h results , there ought not to ave been a deﬁcit

where the principle o f c o - operation between

master and man was that of share and share . Dan began to see his way through the — mystery it was most painfully transparent

in the light o f the score that had been chalked

up from time to time on the inside o f the

’ of cupboard at the Three Legs Man . But it was easier to see where the money had gone than to make it up , and old Billy and his

chums began to mutter and to grumble .

‘ ’ ’ ra l a e o ne . It s y wuss till ever , s id ‘ The tack we ’ ve been on hasn ’ t been worth workin said another . Dan heard their murmurs and went up to TH E L I E THA T E WAN TOLD 2 89

’ f all Bishop s Court . A ter the deﬁcit was

f and f only orty pounds , his ather would lend him that much . But hardly had Dan sat f down to break ast than the Bishop , who was w clearly in lo er spirits than usual , began to l ament that his charities to the poor had been interrupted by the cost of building the barns

and f fo r stables on the arm intended his son .

‘ I hope your ﬁshing will turn out well,

’ ‘ ’ for Dan , he said , I ve scarce a pound in

’ hand to start you .

So Dan said nothing about the debt, and

went back to the ﬁ sh er - fell ows with a face as

’ ‘ ’ long as a haddock s . I ll tell you , men , the

’ storm is coming , he said .

Old Billy looked as black as thunder, and

answered with an impatient gesture , Then

’ ’ ’

f . keep your weather eye li tin , that s all Dan measured the old salt from head to

foot , and hitched his hand into his guernsey .

’ You wouldn t talk to me like that, Billy

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’ u illeash if f Q , I hadn t been a ool with you .

’ It s a true saying, that when you tell your servant your secret you make h im your m aster .

Old Billy sniggered, and his men snorted . Billy wanted to know why he had left

’ Kinvi s g boat, where he had a sure thirty pounds for his season ; and Ned Teare wished to be told what his missus would say when he took her ﬁve pound ten ; and

Crennel , the slushy , asked what sort of a

’ m asth a all season the was afther c in it , at all , at all . Not a man of them remembered his share o f the long scores chalked up on the inside of the cupboard door .

‘ ’ ‘ o P or old dad , thought Dan , he must — ’ ﬁnd the money after all no way but that ,

’ and once again he turned towards Bishop s

Court .

uill eash n off Billy Q saw him goi g , and

292 TH E DEEMS TE R

‘ ’ R ? o f obbery Now , what s the use

’ ’ ’ 0 ? sh o c kin sayin the like that Aw , the

! raell notions Well, well, and do you y

’ ’ thin k a person s got no feelin s Robbery

’

n ow. Aw , well now, well And old Bil ly tramped along with the air o f an injured man .

But the end o f it was that Dan said

thing to the Bishop that day, and the same

‘ ’ night found him at the Jolly Herrings . The landlord had nothing to lend, not he , but he knew “ people who would not mind parting with money on good security, or on any ’ il ’ ’ body s ba , as the sayin was . Couldn t

’ Masth a Dan get a good man s name to a

’ 0 ? Co o rse bit paper, like he could , and

’ entl m an nothing easier, for a g same as him .

Who was the people They belonged to

Peaiz — Liverpool , the Goree y Benas they

’ were call in them .

‘u d Three days afterwards the forty po n s , TH E L I E THA T E WAN TOLD 293

t for made up to ﬁf y round numbers , came to

’ Ki s sec k 0 , the landlord , and the bit paper came with it . Dan took the paper and went off Ball am on with it to the old a ; Ewan

for and t h e would go bail him , so Bishop

of need know nothing the muddle . But when Dan reached his new home Ewan was

— a s away poor old Quaker named Chri tian , who had brought himself to beggary by

’ neglecting Solomon s injunction again st suretyship , was dying , and had sent for the parson .

Dan was in a hurry ; the ﬁ sh er - fell ows were grumbling , and their wives were hanging close about their coat - tails ; the m n o f o ey must be got without delay, and course Ewan would sign for it straight away if he were there . An idea struck Dan , and

made the sweat to start fr om his forehead .

He had put the paper on the table and taken up a pen when he heard Ewan ’ s voice out 294 TH E DEEMSTER

side, and then he threw the pen down and his heart leapt with a sense of relief.

Ewan came in , and rattled on about old

’ a Christian , the Quaker . He h dn t a week

’ n to live , poor old soul , and he hadn t a shilli g m left in the world . Once he far ed his

for hundred acres , but he had stood surety

for this man and that man , and paid ksurety th e o f up defalcations both , and now , while

o f they were eating the bread luxury, he was dying as a homeless pauper .

‘ n n Well , he has bee practisi g a bad

’ ‘ ’ virtue , said Ewan . I wouldn t stand — surety fo r my o wn brother not for my own

if h ad n brother I one . It would be helpi g him to eat to - day the bread he earns to

’ morrow .

Dan went out without saying anything o f

of v the bit paper from Li erpool . The ﬁsher fellows met him , and when they heard what he had to say their grumblings broke out again .

296 TH E DEEM S TE R

f heavy upon her, and made the way of li e very

n and lo g and cheerless to the sweet silent gi rl .

o f Towards the beginning December , sundry letters came out o f their season from the young clerk of Benas Brothers , Jarvis

Kerru i sh . Then the Deemster went over m ’ ore than once to Bishop s Court , and had grave interviews with the Bishop . ‘ If you can prove this that you say ,

Th orkell for , I shall turn my back on him

’ ’ — fo r th e Bi sh o h is ever yes , ever , said p , and voice was husky and his sad face was seamed

of with lines pain .

A few days passed and a stranger appeared

Ball amona a at , and when the str nger had gone

‘ th e Deemster said to Mona , Be ready to go

’ to Bishop s Court with me in the morning . Mona ’ s breath seemed to be suddenly

‘ arrested . Will Ewan be there she asked .

’ Yes—isn t it the day of his week - day — ’ service at the chapel- VVed nesd ay isn t it TH E L I E THA T E WAN TOLD 297

‘ And Dan she said . ‘ ? ? Dan Why Dan Well woman , per haps Dan too —who knows The Bishop had sent across to the old

Ball am ona to say that he wished t o see his son in the library after service on the follow in g morning .

At twelve next day , Dan , who had been

’ hi at in ploug ng , turned in Bishop s Court his long boots and rough red shirt, and there in the library he found Mona and the Deemster seated . Mona did not speak when Dan

f but spoke to her . Her voice seemed to ail the Deemster answered in a jaunty word or two ; and then the Bishop , looking very

f in thought ul, came with Ewan , whose eyes were brighter than they had been for many a day, and behind them walked the stranger whom Mona had seen at Ball am on a the day before . ‘ ’ ? ’ Why, and how s this said Ewan 298 TH E DEE MS TER

on perceiving that so many of them were

gathered there .

The Bishop closed the door, and then

answered with averted face , We have a pain — ’ ful be . interview before us , Ewan seated

l o w It was a dark day the clouds hung , and the dull rumble of the sea came through

o f the dead air . A ﬁre logs and peat burned

on the hearth , and the Deemster rose and

stood with his back to it , his hands interlaced

behind him . The Bishop sat on his brass

clamped chair at the table , and rested his pale

on cheek his hand . There was a pause, and

f the then without li ting his eyes Bishop said,

‘ Ewan , do you know that it is contrary to

the customs of the Church for a mini ster to stand security for a debtor Ewan was standing by the table fumbling

‘ the covers of a book that he had lifted . I

’ kn ow it , he said , quietly . Do you know that the minister who

3 00 TH E DEEMSTER

long breath . Mona had covered her face in her hands where she sat in silence by the f ingle, and Ewan , still umbling the book in f his nervous ﬁngers , was glancing rom Dan to f the Deemster, and rom the Bishop to Dan , f with a look o blank amazement .

n The Deemster motioned to the stra ger , who thereupon advanced from where he had stood by the door, and stepped up to Ewan .

May I ask if this document was drawn

’ by your authority ? and saying this the stranger held out a paper, and Ewan took it in his listless ﬁngers .

’ l n There was a moment s si ence . Ewa gl anced down at the document . It showed that ﬁfty pounds had been lent to Daniel

M l rea n y , by Be as Brothers of the Goree

’ Piazza, Liverpool , and it was signed by Ewan s own name as that of surety . ‘ Is ' th at your signature ? ’ asked the

n stra ger . TH E L IE THA T E WAN TOLD 30 1

c ’ d Ewan glan ed at Dan , and Dan s hea was li hi s . on breast , and his ps quivered The

Bishop was trembling visibly, and sat with head bent low by the sorrow o f a wrecked and shattered hope . f The stranger looked rom Ewan to Dan , and from Dan to the Bishop . The Deemster f f gazed steadily be ore him , and his ace wore a il ghostly sm e .

Is it your signature repeated th e f stranger, and his words ell on the silence like the clank of a chain .

Ewan saw it all now . He glanced again at the document , but his eyes were dim , and he could read nothing . Then he lifted his f o f o f ace , and its lines agony told a terrible struggle .

‘ ’ w is Yes , he ans ered , the signature mine —what of it At that the Bishop and Mona raised their

. t in c red u eyes together The s ranger looked , 39 2 TH E DEEMSTER

’ It is quite right if you say so , the

stranger replied with a cold smile . i Ewan trembled in every l mb . I do say

’ so , he said . His ﬁngers crumpled the document as he

spoke , but his head was erect , and the truth

seemed to sit on his lips . Dan dropped heavily

' f in h i s a into a chair and buried his ace h nds . The stranger smiled again the same cold

smile . The lenders wish to withdraw the

’ loan , he said .

’ se—in They may do a month , said Ewan

’ s ufﬁ c e That will . The Deemster ’ s face t witched Mona ’ s cheeks were wet with tears the Bishop had .

n risen , and gone to the wi dow , and was gazing out th rough blurred eyes into the blinding rain that was now pelting against the glass .

‘ It would be cruel t o prolong a painful

’ int er V1ew , said the stranger and then , with a glance towards Dan where he sat convulsed

304

“ Deemster Zt h e Bishop turned from t h e

’ ’ i aid i n a v i c l . s e a w ndow Ewan , he , o e ik

‘ Re o cry , the cording Angel has set d wn the lie you have told to - day in the Book of Life

’ to your credit in heaven . i Then the Bishop paused , and Dan l fted

’ his head from Ewan s neck .

‘ ’ As for you , sir , the Bishop added ,

‘ ou turning to his son , I am done with y for — — ever go from me let me see y our face no

Dan went out of the room with bended

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