d not mind, but when the
young tyrant, leaning forward, began to beat her on the shoulders, she
turned round and declared that she would go no farther if he did so
again.

"But I will make you," he answered; "go on, I say."

Fanny stopped, and again told him not to use his stick as he was doing.

"Well, go on and you will see," he said, letting his stick hang out
behind the carriage, for he was afraid that she would take it from him.

Fanny once more began to drag the carriage forward, but she had not got
far when she felt the stick on her shoulders.

"You are not going fast enough to please me," cried Norman.

"I told you that I would not draw you at all if you hit me, and you have
done so notwithstanding," said Fanny, feeling very angry.

"You cannot leave me out here by myself, so you must drag me home," said
Norman, "and I am determined that you shall go as fast as I like."

"Home we will go, then," answered Fanny, and, turning the carriage
round, she began to return by the way they had come.

Norman seemed determined to make her angry, for after they had gone a
little way he again hit her with the end of his stick. Suddenly turning
round, she snatched it from him, and, breaking it in two, threw it to a
distance.

Norman was afraid of getting out, lest his sister should run off with
the carriage, and as she could not now be struck, she dragged it home as
fast as she could go.

Mr Maclean seemed somewhat surprised to see his young friends return so
soon.

Norman lost his excursion, and Fanny, in her kindness, thinking that he
was sufficiently punished, did not say how he had treated her.

CHAPTER FIVE.

IN THE HIGHLANDS.

"I hope you had a pleasant excursion, my dears, on the moor," said Mrs
Maclean, when they entered the house.

"Oh, we had very good fun, and we should have had more if Fanny would
have gone farther," answered Norman. "She cannot stand jokes, and
because I just touched her with my stick she would not go on."

Fanny cast a reproachful glance at Norman. She had determined not to
complain of him, and now he was trying to make it appear that he had
come back through her want of temper. This was very hard indeed to
bear, but she did not attempt to defend herself, for she knew that her
granny would be aware of the truth, and that satisfied her, and she was
unwilling to make her little brother appear to disadvantage in the eyes
of their hostess.

"I shall be very happy to take