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DUNCAN CAMPBELL, Editor, "Northern Chronicle,
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ALEXANDER MACBAIN, M.A., F.S.A.Scot.
No. 42. SEPTEMBER, 1892. Vol. IV.
A STRANGE REVENGE.
CHAPTER L
HOW THE LAIRD FOUGHT HIS DUEL.
CAUGHT napping at ten o'clock in the morning,
exactly two hours after breakfast ; weather beauti-
ful ; sport good, and this our tenants' day among che
grouse. Prodigious ! Why, father, I thought you were on
the hills, busy keeping yourself beyond range of old Mac-
pherson's gun."
"Ah, I'm afraid age has begun to grip," replied the
laird, throwing himself into a conversational attitude, and
evidentl}' not unpleased at being interrupted. "I felt quite
unequal to keeping my appointment this morning."
" They will be awfully disappointed, with weather so-
glorious as this."
" Not a bit of it ; in fact, it struck me Macpherson was-
rather pleased when I sent them off with the keeper and a
well filled hamper on the pony's back. But are you not
ridiculously ashamed, a young man of twenty-three, to
remain within doors, poring over dry books—of course
they are dry—when outdoor exercise would be the life of
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