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Why,Zbc 1bigblan6 iHbontbl^.I-DITED BVDUNCAN CAMPBELL, Editor, "Northern Chronicle,AM)ALEXANDER MACBAIN, M.A.,F.S.A.Scot.No. 42. SEPTEMBER, 1892. Vol. IV.A STRANGE REVENGE.CHAPTER LHOW THE LAIRD FOUGHT HIS DUEL.CAUGHT napping at ten o'clock in the morning,exactly two hours after breakfast ; weather beautiful;sport good, and this our tenants' day among chegrouse. Prodigious ! father, I thought you were onthe hills, busy keeping yourself beyond range of old Macpherson'sgun.""Ah, I'm afraid age has begun to grip," replied thelaird, throwing himself into a conversational attitude, andevidentl}' not unpleased at being interrupted. "I felt quiteunequal to keeping my appointment this morning."" They will be awfully disappointed, with weather sogloriousas this."" Not a bit of it ; in fact, it struck me Macpherson wasratherpleased when I sent them off with the keeper and awell filled hamper on the pony's back. But are you notridiculously ashamed, a young man of twenty-three, toremain within doors, poring over dry books—of coursethey are dry—when outdoor exercise would be the life of2 1