"Ye will perhaps tell the Session what hass been your 'lawwork' andhow long ye hef been at Sinai."

"A' dinna ken what yir askin'. I was never oot o' Drumtochty," andJessie breaks down utterly.

"A' dinna think, Moderator, we ocht tae ask sic questions," broke inBurnbrae, whom could not see a little one put to confusion; "an' Icanna mind them in the Gospels. There's ae commandment Jessie keepsweel, as a' can testeefy, and that's the fifth, for there's no amuch better dochter in Drumtochty. A' move, Moderator, she get her token;dinna greet, puir woman, for ye've dune weel, and the Session's raelsatisfeed."

"It sometimes wass Dr. Harold's mark I wass trying the kid by," explainedLachlan after Jessie had gone away comforted. "And it iss a gootmark, oh yes, and fairly searching.

"Ye will maybe not know what it iss, Moderator," and Lachlanregarded the minister with austere superiority, for it was thewinter of the feud.

No, he did not, nor any of the Session, being all douce Scotchmen,except Donald Menzies whom was at home fighting the devil.

"It iss broken bones, and Dr. Harold did preach three hours upon it atAuchindarroch Fast, and there wass not many went to the Sacrament onthat occasion.