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next of it—what am I to do with ye next? Ye'll have to find some kind of a trade, for

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sever rapport ye in Idles et. What do ye fancy ye'll be flt*for? The pulpit? Na, they could never get diveenlty into that bloackhead. Him that the law of man whammels is no likely to do muckle better by the law of Qod. What would ye make of hell? Wouldnae your gorge rise at that? Na, there's no room for splairgers under the fower quarters of John Calvin. What else is there? Speak up. Have ye got nothing of your own?" "Father, let me go to the Peninsula," said Archie. "ThatJs all I'm fit for—to

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"All? quo' he!" returned the Judge. "And it would be enough too, if I thought It But I'll never trust ye BO near the French, you that's so Frenchifeed." "You do me injustice there, sir," said Archie. "I am loyal I will not boast but any interest I may have ever felt in the French "Have ye been so loyal to me?" interrupted his father.

There came no reply. "I think not," continued Hermiston. "And I would send no man to be a servant to the King, Ood bless him! that has proved such a shauchling son to tils falther. You can splalrge here on Edinburgh street, and where's the hairm? It doesna jrtay buff on me! And if there were twenty thousand eediots like yourself, sorrow a Duncan Jopp would bang the fewer. But there's no splairging possible In

a camp and if you were to go to It, you would find out for yourself whether Lord Welfn'ton approves of caapital punishment or not. You a sodger!" he cried, with a sudden burst of scorn. "Ye auld wife, the sodjers would bray at ye like cuddles!"

As at the drawing of a curtain, Archie was aware of some illogicality in his position, and stood abashed. He had a strong impression, besides, of the essential valoi of the old gentleman before him, how conveyed it would be hard to say. "Well, have ye no other proposeetion?" said my lord again. "You have taken this so calmly, sir, that I cannot but stand ashamed," began Archie. "I'm nearer voamiting, though, than you would fancy," said my lord.

The blood rose to Archie's brow. "I beg your pardon, I should have said that you had accepted my affront. I admit it was an affront I did not think to apologise, but I do, I .ask your pardon It will not be so again, I pass you my word of honor. I should have saW that I Admired your magnanimity with—this—offender," Arohle concluded with a gulp. "I have no other son, ye see," said Hermiston. "A bonny one I have gotten! But I must do the best I can wi' him, and what am I to do? If ye had been younger, I would have wheepit ye for this rldeeculous exhlbeetlon. The way it is, I have just to grin and bear. But one thing is to be clearly understood. As a falther, I must grin and bear it but if I had been the Lord Advocate instead of the Lord JusticeClerk, son or no son, Mr. Brchlbald Weir would have been In a jyle the nigbt."

Archie was now dominated. Lord Hermiston was coarse and cruel and yet the •on was aware of a bloomless nobility, an ungracious abnegation of the man's self in the man's office. At every word, this nse of the greatness of Lord Hermlston'i rit struck more home and along with it of his own impotence, who had struck id perhaps basely struck—at his own er, and not reached so far as to have nettled him.

I place myself In your hands without re» rve," he said. "That's the first sensible word I've had of ye the night," said Hermiston. "I can tell ye, that would have been the end of it, the one way or the other but it's better ye should come there yourself, than that I would have had to hlrstle ye. Weel, by my way of it—and my way Is the best— there's Just the one thing It's possible that y« might be with decency, and that' a laird. Ye'll be out of huirm's way at the least of it If ye have to rowt, ye can rowt amana the kye and the malst feck of the caapital punishment ye're like to com* across '11 be guddling trout*. Now, I'm for no Idle lairdies every man has to work, II it's only at peddling ballants to work, or to be Wheeped. wr to hnnnctt.. If I set y* down at Hennistoo, I'll have to set you work that hw never been worklt yet ye most ken about the sheep like a herd ye must be my grieve there, and I'll see that I gain by ye. Is that understood?'* •*1 will do my best." said Archie. "Well, then. Til send Kirstie word the mora, and ye can go yourself the day after," said Hermiston. "And Just try to be lees of an eedtot!" he concluded, with a fretting smile, and turned immediately to the papers on his dsak.

CHAPTER IV,

OPINION OF THE BBNCH. Late the same night, after a disordered walk, Archie was sdmitted into Lord Olenftlmuad's dialag-room where he sat, with a

n'PLACE MYSELF IN Yorit IIA N DS WITHOUT RESERVE." HE SAID.

book upon his knee. In his robes upon the bench, Olenalmond had a certain air of burliness: plucked of these, it was a may-pole of a man that rose unsteadily from his chair to give his visitor welcome. Archie had suffered much in the last days, he had suffered again that evening his face was white and drawn, his ayes wild and dark. But Lord Glenalmond greeted him without the least ipark of curiosity. "Come In, come in," said he. "Come in and take a seat. ••Carstalrs" (to his servant) "make up the fire, and then you can bring a bit of supper," and again to Archie with a very trivial accent: "I was fc«if expecting you," he added. "No supper," said Archie. ,„"lt is Impossible that I should eat." JV "Not impossible," said the tall old man, laying his hand upon his shoulder, "and. If you will believe me, necessary." "You know what brings me?" said Archie, as soon as the servant had left the room. "I have a guess, I have a guess," replied Olenalmond. "We will talk of it presently —when Carstalrs has come and gone, and you have apiece of my good Cheddar cheese and a pull at the porter tankard: not before." "It Is impossible I should eat," repeated Archie. "Tut, tut!" said Lord Olenalmond. "Yoa have eaten nothing to-day, and I venture to add, nothing yesterday. There is no case that may not be made worse: this may be a very disagreeable business, but If you were to fall sick or die, it would be still more so, and for all concerned—for all concerned." "I see you must know all," said Archie, "Where did you hear it?" "In the mart of scandal, in the Parliament House," said Olenalmond. "It rund

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riot below among the bar and the public, but it Blfts up to us upon the bench, and rumor has some of her voices even in the divisions."

Carstalrs returned at this moment, and rapidly laid out a little supper during which Lord Olenalmond spoke at large and a little vaguely on indifferent subjects, so that it might be rather said of him that he made a cheerful noise, than that he contributed to human conversation and Archie sat upon the other side, not heeding him, brooding over his wrongs and errors.

But so soon as the servant was gone, he broke forth agalnt at once. "Who told my father? Who dared tb tell him? Could it have been you?" •'No, It was not me," said the Judge "although—to be quite frank with you, and after I had seen and warned you—it might have been me. I believe It was Olenklndle." "That shrimp!" cried Arohle. "As you say, that shrimp," returned my lord "although really It is scarce a fitting mode of expression for one of the senators of the College of Justice. We were hearing the parties in a long, crucial case, before the fifteen Creech was moving at some length for an infeftment when I saw Qlenkindle lean forward to Hermiston with his hand over his mouth and make him a secret communication. No one could have guessed its nature from your father from Olenklndie, yes, his malice sparked out of him a

OFFER YOU MY HAND IN PLEDGE OF IT." little grossly. But your father, no. A man of granite. The next moment he pounced upon Creech. 'Mr. Creech," says he, *1*11 take a look of that aasine,' and for thirty minutes after," said Olenalmond, with a smile, "Messrs. Creech and Co. were fighting a pretty uphill battle, which resulted, I need hardly add, in' their total rout The case was dismissed. No, I doubt if ever I heard Hermiston better inspired. He was literally rejoicing hi aptclbus Juris."

Archie was able to endure no longer. He thrust his plate away and Interrupted the deliberate and insignificant stream of talk. "Here," he said, "I have made a tool of niysalt, If I have not made something "orse. Do you Judge between us—judge between a father and a son. I can speak to you it is not like ... I will tell you what I feel and what I mean to do sad you shall the Judge," hie repeated. *1 decline jurisdiction." said Olenalmond with extreme seriousness. "But, my dear boy. It It will do you any good to talk, and if It will Interest jrou at all to hear what I may choose to say when I have heard you. am quite at your command. Let an old man say it, tor oooe, and Mt

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need to blush: I love you like a son." There came a sudden sharp sound la Archie's throat "Ay," he cried, "and there it is! Love! Like a son! And how do you think I love my father?" "Quietly, quietly," says my lord. "I will be very quiet," replied Archie. "And I will be baldly frank. I do not love my father I wonder sometimes if I do not hate him. There's my shame perhaps my sin. at least, and in the sight of Qod, not my foult How was I to love him? He TI«B never spoken to me, never smiled upon me I do not think he ever touched me. You know the way he talks? You do not talk so, yet you can sit and hear him without shuddering, and I cannot My soul is sick when ha begins with it I could smite him In the mouth. And all that's nothing. I was at the trial of this Jopp. You were not there, but you must have heard him often the man's notorious for it tor being—look at my position! he's my father and this Is how I have to speak of him—notorious for a brute and cruel and a coward. Olenalmond, I give you my word, came out of that Court, I longed to the shame of It was beyond my hut I—I—" he rose /rom his seat and to pace the room in a disorder. who am I? A boy, who had nevi tried, had never done anything exc twopenny impotent folly with But I tell you, my lord, and I kno I am at least that kind of a mankind of a boy if you prefer It—that die in torments rather than that ari should suffer as that scoundrel suffe^ Well, and what have I done? I see now. I have made a fool of myself, as said in the beginning and I have gone back and asked my father's pardon, and placed myself wholly in his hands—and he has sent me to Hermiston," with a wretched smile, "for life 1 suppose—and what can I say? He strikes me as having done quite right, and let me off better than I deserved." "My poor, dear boy!" observed Glenalmond. "My poor dear and, If you will allow me to say so, very foolish boy! You are only discovering where you are to one of your temperament, or of mine, a painful discovery. The world was not made for us it was made for ten hundred millions of men, all different from each other and from us there's no royal road there, we Just have to sclamber and tumble. Don't think that I am at all disposed to be surprised don't suppose that I ever think of blaming you indeed I rather admire. But there fall to be offered one or two observations on the case which occur to me and which (if you will listen to them dispassionately) may be the means of Inducing you to view the matter more calmly. First of all, I cannot acquit you of a good dej of what is called intolerance. You see have been very much offended because father talks a little sculduddery after ner, which it is perfectly licit for him do, and which (although I am not ^erjr of it myself) appears to be entirely aiv of taste. Your father, I scarcely remind you, since it is so irite a! place, is older than yourself. A Is major and sui juris, and T0 himself in the matter of his "jt And, do you know, I wonde** not have as good an answer^ me? We say we sometimebut I suspect he us always dully' tlon." g-*

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ce. pas have a llttfl heresy. My fourth, was opinions. I nevei^'aw th& lieved in I would have puB^* fire, I would have gone to the and when it came to trial he wlk pictured before me, by undenial^ tion, in the light of so gross, so cof ed, and so black-hearted a villaE% had a mind to have cast my brl table. I was then boiling against t! with even a more tropical temperai than I had been boiling for him/ But said to myself: 'No, you have taken up case and because you have changed yoi mind it must not be suffered to let dro] All that rich tide of eloquence that yi prepared last night with so much enthus' asm is out of place, and yet you must not desert him, you must say something.' So I said something, and I got him off. It made my reputatlen. But an experiehoe ol that kind Is formative. A man must not bring his passions to the bar—or to the bench," he added.

The story had slightly rekindled Archie's Interest "I could never deny," he began "j mean I can conceive that aome men would be better dead. But who are we to know all the springs of God's unfortunate creatures? Who are we to trust ourselves where it seems that God Himself must think twice before He treads, and do it with delight? Yes, with delight Tigris ut aspera." "Perhaps not a pleasant spectacle," said Olenalmond. "And yet do you know, I think somehow a great one." ,f "I've had along talk with him to-rilght" said Archie. "I was supposing so," said Olenalmond. "And he struck me—I cannot deny that he struck me aa something very big," pursued the son. "Yes, he is big. He never spoke about himself only about me. 1 suppose I admired him. The dreadful part "Suppose we did not talk aboqt that, terrupted Olenalmond. "You know it well, it cannot in any way help that should brood upon It, and I sometimes der whether you and I—who are sentimentalist*—are quite good plain men." •'How do you mean?" asked Archie.

"Fair Judges, I mean," replied Olenalmond. "Can we be Just to them? Do we not ask too much? There was a word of yours just now that impressed me a little %-hen you asked me who we were to know all the springs of God's unfortunate creatures. You applied that, as I understood, to capital oases only. But does it—I ask myself—does It not apply all through? Is it any less difficult to Judge erf a good man or of a half-good man, than of the worst criminal at the bar? And may not audi have relevant excuses r* "Ah. bat we do not talk of punishing the good," cried Archie. "No, we do not talk of It," said Glenalmond. "But I think we do It Your father, tor Instance." "You this* I have punished him r' cried Archie.

Lord Glesalmood bowed his head. "I think I have," said Arefela "And the worst to. I think be feels It! How araoli, who can tell, with meb a being? Bat tfclnk he doss."

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"And I am sure of it," said Olenalmond. "Has he spoken to you, thai?" cried Archie. "Oh, no," replied the Judge. "I tell you honestly," said Archie, "I want to make it up to him. I will go, have already pledged myself to go to Hermiston. That was to him. And now pledge myself to you, in the sight of Ood, that I will close my mouth on capital punishment and all other subjects where our views may clash, for—how long shall say* when shall I have sense enough?—ten years. Is that well?" "It is well," said my lord. "As far as it goes," said Archie. "It Is enough as regards myself, it is to lay down enough of my conccit. But as regards him, whom I have publicly insulted? What am I to do to him? How do you pay atten tions to a—an Alp like that?" "Only in one way," replied Olenalmond. "Only by obedience, punctual, prompt, and scrupulous." "And I promise that he shall have It answered Archie, "I offer you my hand in pledge of it" "And I take your hand as a solemnity, replied the Judga "Ood bless you, my dear, and enable you to keep your promise, guide you in the true way, and spare our days, and preserve to you your honest eart" At that he kissed the young man pon the forehead in a gracious, distant tiquated way and instantly launched, ith a marked change of voice, into another subject. "And now, let us replenish the tankard and I believe. If you will try my Cheddar again you would find you had a better appetite. The Court has Bpoken.and the case is dismissed." "No, there is one thing I must say," cried Archie. "I must say it In justice to himself. I know—I believe faithfully, slavishly, after our talk—he will never ask me anything unjust. I am proud to feel it, that we have that much in common, I am proud to say it to you."

The Judge, with shining eyes, raised his tankard. "And I think perhaps that we might permit ourselves a toast,' said he "1 should like to propose the health of a man very different from me and very much my superior—a man from whom I have often differed, who has often (in the trivial expression) rubbed me the wrong way, but whom I have never ceased to respect and, I may add, to be not a afraid of. Shall I give you his name?" "The Lord Justice-Clerk, Lord Hermiston," said Archie, almost with gaiety and the pair drank the toast deeply. (To be Continued.)

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