d. Man cannot harm you there."

"But, to-day, of all seasons--"

"It _is_ hard: but you have done with captivity. No more captivity! My
dear Lady Carse, what remains! What is it you would have? You would
not wish for vengeance! No! it is pain!--you are in pain. Shall I
raise you?"

"No, no: never mind the pain! But I did hope to see my husband again."

"To forgive him. You mean, to forgive him?"

"No: I meant--"

"But you mean it now? He had something to pardon in you."

"True. But I cannot--Do not ask me."

"Then you hope that God will. I may tell him that you hope that God
will forgive him."

"That is not my affair. Kiss my Janet for me."

"I will; and all your children--What? `Is it growing dark?' Yes, it
is, to us as well as to you. What is that she says?" he inquired of
Helsa, who had a younger and quicker ear.

"She says the widow is about lighting her lamp. Yes, my lady; but we
are too far off to see it."

"Is she wandering?" asked the President.

"No, sir: quite sensible, I think. Did you speak, my lady?"

"My love!"

"To Annie, my lady? I will not forget."

She spoke no more. Sir Alexander contrived to keep from the knowledge
of the boatmen for some hours that there was a corpse on board. When
they could conceal it no longer, they forgot their fatigue in their
superstition, and rowed, as for their lives, to the nearest point of
land. This happened, fortunately, to be within the territories of Sir
Alexander Macdonald.

In the early dawn the boat touched at Vaternish Point, and there landed
the body, which, with Helsa for its attendant, was committed by Sir
Alexander to a clansman who was to summon a distant minister, and see
the remains interred in the church at Trunban, where they now lie.

When the President returned to his estate at Culloden; in the ensuing
spring, on the final overthrow of the Jacobite cause, his first use of
the re-established post was to write to Lord Carse, in London, tidings
of his wife's death, promising all particulars if he found that his
letter reached its destination in safety. The reply he received was
this:--

"I most heartily thank you, my dear friend, for the notice you have
given me of the death of _that person_. It would be a ridiculous
untruth to pretend grief for it; but as it brings to my mind a train of
various things for many years back, it gives me concern. Her retaining
wit and facetiousness to the last surprises me. Th