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ing in her full round cheek. "Come, Isa!" cried Mack, catching sight of her in the dim light. "Come here, I want Mr. Cameron to meet you." "How do you do?" said the girl, giving Cameron her hand and glancing saucily into his face. "I hear you are a piper and a hammer-thrower and altogether a wonderful man." "A wonderfully lucky man, to have the pleasure of meeting you," said Cameron, glancing boldly back at her. "And I am sure you can dance the fling," continued Isa. "All the Highlanders do." "Not all," said Cameron. "But with certain partners all Highlanders would love to try." "Oh aye," with a soft Highland accent that warmed Cameron's blood. "I see you have the tongue. Come away, Danny, now, strike up, or I will go on without you." And the girl kilted her skirts and began a reel, and as Mack's eyes followed her every step there was no mistaking their expression. To Mack there was only one girl in the barn, or in all the world for that matter, and that was the leal-hearted, light-footed, black-eyed Isa MacKenzie. Bonnie she was, and that she well knew, the belle of the whole township, driving the men to distraction and for all that holding the love of her own sex as well. But her heart was still her own, or at least she thought it was, for all big Mack Murray's open and simple-hearted adoration, and she was ready for a frolic with any man who could give her word for word or dance with her the Highland reel. With the courtesy of a true gentleman, Danny led off with his fiddle till they had all got thoroughly into the spirit and swing of the frolic, and then, putting his instrument back into its bag, he declared that they were all tired of it and were waiting for the pipes. "Not a bit of it!" cried Isa. "But we will give you a rest, Danny, and besides I want to dance a reel with you myself--though Mr. Cameron is not bad," she added, with a little bow to Cameron, with whom she had just finished a reel. Readily enough Cameron tuned his pipes, for he was aching to get at them and only too glad to furnish music for the gay company of kindly hearted folk who were giving him his first evening's pleasure since he had left the Cuagh Oir. From reel to schottische and from schottische to reel, foursome and eightsome, they kept him playing, ever asking for more, till the gloaming passed into moonlight and still they were not done. The respite came through Mandy, who, solid in weight and heavy of foot, had l
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