Show I THE HOUSE WITH WITt THE GREEN SHUTTERS I- I D BY GEORGE DOUGLASS OP 0 I Copyright Y 1002 McClure I Phillips P Co o CHAPTER XIV XIV Continued Mo thrash him cried Gourlay I pay the High school of or to thrash him and Ill I'll tal take c damned good caro care to get Ret my moneys money's worth I dont don't m mean n l to hire and bark for myself mylie my my- self 1 He lie grabbed crabbed his son non by the thc col coat lar and swung him out the room Down High street he tie marched carrying Ms his cub by the scruff of or the neck as you might carry earry a n dirty puppy to an out out- hou house e John was black In the race face ace time and again In his hla wrath Gourlay swung him oft off the ground Grocers coming to their doors to scatter fresh sawdust on the thc old now tramped black and wet on the sills s stared sideways chins up and mO mouths open after aCter the strange spectacle But Gourlay splashed on amid the staring starin crowd never looking to the right or left leCt Opposite the r Inn whom should the they meet but Wilson A snigger snig ger er shot to his features at the sight swung the bo boy up up for for a tl moment mo mo- meat ment the wild Impulse surged within i him to club hl his rival with his own son He Ue marched marchell Into the vestibule of ot the High school the boy hoy dangling from his great hand Wheres heres your gaffer he lie roared atthe at atthe atthe the Janitor GaiTer Gaffer blinked the Janitor Gaffer dominie dominic whatever the lamn damn you ca' ca him the fellow that runs the business s The headmaster said the janitor Held malster aye aye said in scorn and went trampling the Janitor down lOWn a Ion long lone wooden corridor A door wa was flung open opel showing i t classroom class room where the headmaster t r wa wan seated teaching Greek The sudden appearance of the great great- cheated figure In the door with hiS hla fierce t c eyes cs and th the rain rain- beads shining on his frieze coat brought Into the close academic air ala the sharp strong gust of an outer world I bell believe eye I m pay ion ou oti to look after that ho boy hoy thundered curlay- curlay Is this the way you OU lo your work And with the word WOrl he sent his son pon spinning sp along the Moor noor like a curling Iron till he rattled a a. wet huddled lump against l ln a n Li Lirow row of or chairs John s slunk unk behind the master neall Really said MacCandlish rising in protest Dont Don't really me inc sin RIll I pay you jou Olt to teach this bo boy and you OU allow him t trun n tl run Idle In Sn the tho streets What have oJ you to tn h c.-h eh I But what can I do ble cJ Mac lac Candlish with a white e c 1 I of or deprecating dep dep- hands hand The stronger strong man took the grit from tram hl Ills his limbs Do Do Damn it It sir am I to he be your dominie Am I to tench you OU your our dut duty Do Flog him flo flog him Hog Ilog him him It If you oU dont don't send him name wP wI the welts on him as 45 thick as 19 that forefinger Ill I'll have a word 10 to SQ say to you you-on l MacCandlish lIe He was gone gone- they gone they heard hemd him go clumping champing along the corridor Thereafter young oung Gourlay had to stick slick to his books 9 And a as we wo know the tho forced union of ot opposites breeds the greater reater disgust between them However his schooldays would soon Men be over o and meanwhile It was fin fine to topo po pose poso on hi nib his Journeys to and fro fm as Young Hopeful of the Green Groen Shutters He lie was smoking g In station on an afternoon as ns the Barbie train was on the point of starting Ho WAS staying on the platform till the aDt moment In order to show the people how nicel nicely he could bring the smoke c down his nostrils nostrils his his Prince of ot Wales's feathers he called the curlIn curlIng curl- curl curlIng In Ing puff puffs As he dallied a little aback from front an open window he heard a voice which ho lie knew mentioning the Gourlas Gour Gour- lays las It was as who nho was speaking rigI rig I see Ice that Gourlay has hag lost his hla final appeal In that suit law of his said the Templar Dye tell me that said a strange voice olce Then Then Gosh Gosh he must have lost infernal has he that said Temp Temp- The costs must have been enormous and then theres there's the dam dam- ages ageg He lie would have been better to and be he done vit but his pride made him fight It to tho the hindmost It has made made- him touch the of ot his Ill I'll Weel Veel wed weel It'll purse Wafer ager ye e help to subdue his pride a bit and le was the tho neel l o that Youn Gourlay was seized with a sudden fear tear The prosperity or ot th tho mc House with the Green Shutters had been a fact of at his existence It had never entered his boyish mind to question question question ques ques- tion Its continuance But Dut a weakening doubt stole through h his limbs What would become of or him if Ie the Gourlays were threatened d with disaster ter He lie had a rt terrifying vision of himself as a lonely atom adrift on 0 a tossing world cut off from his anchorage Mother Iother are arc we ever likely to beill be ill III off ho asked his mother that even cven- In I I I She ran h her r fingers fin through ms rims na hall nair r pushing It hack haek from his brow fondly No no dear clear what makes ye think that Your our father has hasi always had a grand business s and I brought a a. hantle han han- tie tle money mOlley to the house Hol Hokey e said the youth when Ahm in the time business Ahll have havo the times CHAPTER XV Gourlay was hard up for tor money Every cry day of at his life me taught taught- hl him him that he wa was sas nowhere In the stress of ot modern competition The grand days only days only a few tew ears cars back but seeming half halt a century so EO much had happen happened in between be be- tween the tween-the the grand days das when he was the anI only big man in the locality and carried everything e with a high hand had disappeared forever Now all was wasI hustle bustle hurry and confusion contusion the getting and sending of or telegrams quick dispatches dis- dis patches b by ra railway II 3 the thc watching watching- of oC markets at nt a distance rapid tI ions 0 Of that bewildered ered Gourlay's Gourlays duller mind At first he was WOM too obstinate to tr try the new newer nc r methods when he hc did dill he was too stupid to use URe them cI cleverly erlY hen he lie plunged U it was always at the wrong time fur Cur or he lie plunged d at random not knowing what to do He lie had lost heavily Hr of ota late te both baUl In grain and cheese ana lna the tao suit law with Gibson hail had aa crippled him It wa was well vell for tor him that property in Barbie had increased in value th the House with the Green Shutters Shut Shut- was to prove pw the buttress of ot his hla fortune Already Alread h he had hall borrowed considerably on that tha t security He lie was now dressing to 0 go 0 to and get mor more Gurney and of or Glasgow were vore the lawyers Jawers who financed him and li h- h he had to sign n some papers at nt Goudie's office ore oro he touched the tIme cash H 11 He was meaning to drive of or course Gourlay was WaR proud of or his gig dr and al alwa's always always al- al ways was kept a roadster What hal hala a tine line figure of or a man you OU thought us as you ou saw him coming swiftly toward yf you y U u. u seated on his bis driving dr cushion That ln driving cushion was as Gourlays Gourlay's pedestal from which he lie looked down o on n Barbie for or man many a I day A quick step 3 yet ct shambling came along the lobby There There- was a pause n as of or one gathering heart for a 3 venture then a n chams clumsy knock knok on the time door Come In ln snapped Gourlay Peter Riney's queer little old face edged timorously Into the time room lIe He only opened the door the width of ot hi his I face tace and looked r cady to bolt at nt o a word Tarns he blurted Gourlay C gashed himself It frightfully with hi lila his razor and a n big re red blob blot I stood out on his cheek he stared dYes d. d Yes stammered Peter H lie He was I right enough when hen gae gac him his him m feed teed this morning but when I went vent In ii I enow to put the harness on on he wu was m lying lied died in the lo loose e The baUm bans I its tg Its It's like For a moment Gourlay stared starell with wiLt I the open mouth of an an angry y surprise forgetting to take down hl his razor Peter he ho said at last an and I P Peter ter went away The loss of or his pony touched Gourlay to the quick He had been ant and I dour In his other misfortunes had taken ta ta- ta ken them as they came caine calmly he was 3 not the man to whine and cry out agaInst the angry heavens He hat hall I neither the weakness nor the width 01 of or r nature to Indulge In tho the luxury of self self- pit pity But the sudden death of ot his hia gal Ial- lant roadster his proud pacer through 1 the streets of ot Barbie Duble touched him hint wItha with I a sense of ot quite personal lo loss and anti bereavement be be- Coming CominS' on the heels of ot his him m other calamities it seemed to make I them more poignant more sinister ter prompting the question It If ml misfortune fortuno would never have been un an end Damn It It I have ha enough to thole I Gourlay muttered surely there was m no need for Cor this to happen And Anti when I he looked hooked In tho the mirror to ta fasten ten his hit S stock and saw the dark strong clean clean- shaven race face ace he stared at nt It U for a a. moment moment mo mo- ment merit with 1 a compassion Corthe for fol r the man before him as for tor one who was being hardly used The hard lips S could never have ha framed the words but the vague feeling In his heart a aa as m he looked at the dark vision Islon was Ita Its It m a 3 pIt pity of or you OU sir lIe He put on his coat COlt rapidly and wen went t out to the stable stahle An Instinct prompted 1 him to lock the door He lie entered the loose A shall shaft t of or golden olden light with motes mote I slanted In the quietness Tam Tarn lay orthe on or i the straw his head far out hl his hla ned neck unnaturally long his sprawling rigid What hat a spanker Tam Tain hart had been What gallant drives thc they had had to together to gether Kether When he lie first put Tam Tarn between be be- tween the shafts five years ears ago 3 he ha had I been driving his world before him plenty plent of ot cash and a bl big way of ot doing Now Now Tam Tarn was dead and his master maste r netted In a mesh of care I was always gude to tho the beasts a at t tany any rate Gourlay muttered as I If C pleading In his own defense e. For a long time he stared down a at atthe atthe L the carca carcass musing Tam Tarn the po ne he said twice nodding his head each time he said it Tam Tarn the and he turned turnell awa away Ho How v was he to get to He Hi plunged plunge at hl his watch The 10 o'clock train had already ady gone the express did dk 1 not stop at Barbie If IC he waited till 1 L o'clock he would be late for tor his ap ap- ap- ap There was a brake true which ran to every Tuesday It was n a tho l though h for a 1 man who ho had been proud of ot driving behind his own to pack among a crowd of at Barbie prats And If It he ho went by the brake he would be e sure sura to Jo rub nib lIbI shoulders with his stinging and and andr detested detested de de- I tested foes It was a tine line da day like enough the whole bang jing-bang of or them I would be ho going with the brake to Skei- Skei ghan Gourlay who shrank from nothIng noth noth- ing shrank from the winks that would be sure to pass when the they saw him the haughty the aloof forced to creep among them thorn cheek check for or Jowl Then his angry pride rushed towering to his aid Wa Was ns John Gourlay to turn tall for or a o tho the Barbie dirt Damn the tear fear ear ot It was a public conveyance he had the same right to use It as the rest o 0 folk The place of ot departure for Cor or the brake was the Black Bull Dull at the Cross nearl nearly opposite to Wilsons Wilson's There were winks and stares and elbow elbow- when then the folk hanging round saw Gourlay coming forward but he paid no heed Gourlay In spite of ot his mad violence when roused was waB aa a 0 man manat manat manat at all alt other times of oC a grave and anti orderly order order- I ly 1 demeanor He lie never ne splurged Even his bluster was 18 not a it bluster for tor ho never ne threatened the thing which ho he had It not in him him to do llo lIe He walk walked d Into the empty brake and took his seat In the hand right corner at the tue top close below the driver dr As he had expected the Barbie bodies bodies bodies bo bo- bo- bo dies had mustered In strength for In a tl country brake It Is the privilege e of or the Important men to mount beside the driver In order to take the air all and show themselves off orr to an admiring world On the dickey w were re Provost ex Connal and Sandy Toddle Tiddle and between them the Deacon acon tI tightly wedged The Deacon was so M thin the bodle lodie that though he le was wedged wedded closely he could turn and ad ad- dress himself to Tam Tarn BrodIe who was wai seated Boated next ext to the door The fun tun began when the horses homes were crawling up the first brae The Deacon turned tun with a I wink to Brodle and dropping u a glance on the crown of Gourlay's Gourlays hat lint he lisped what a l dirty place that ith pointing to a hovel hO by the wayside Brodie took the cue at once His lila big face flushed with a malicious grin Aye Are he bellowed the tho owner o that maun mann be married to a a. dirty wife Im I'm thinking It must be terrible said the Deacon Deacon Dea Dea- con to be married to a dirty lop Terrible laughed Brodie Brodle its ts t's enough h to give alny amy man mon a gurly tern tem per ThE They had Gourlay on the hip at last More than arrogance had kept him off oct from the bodies of the town a consciousness also that he was vas not their match In malicious Innuendo The direct attack he could meet su superbly su- su downing his opponent nt with a n. coar coarse c birr hirr of oC the tongue to the veiled Jibe he was a quivering hulk to tobe tobe be he prodded at your our ea ease l And now the were around him while he could coul not get away talking to each other Indeed but at him while Ji he hI must k keep p quiet in their midst At every bree brec they came camo to and there were vere many braes th the e bodies s played their malicious game shouting remarks a along the brake to each others other's oth ers ems ears cars to his comprehension Tim The n nc nv nu v house houe of ot was seen above tho the trees What a splendid house Templand- Templand mull muIr h has s built hullt cried the ex Pro Splendid echoed Brodle hut But t alaird a tL alaird laird like the Templar has a n right to aline a n aline nUna line Una mansion such as that He lies a H no like some merchants we WC ken 0 who throwaway throwaway throw throwaway away mone money on a house for or no other end but vanity Molly Many 1 a man mai builds a grand house for or a Off hOW when he has verra little to support It I Dot But ut the Templar's different different- He lie has made mado madea a mint of ot money since he took the quarry In iii his lila own land hand lies erra thick wP wi Wilson VilSOn I notice no no- tice tiec the Deacon turning with ith a n agin grin gr and a n gleaming droop of or the eye on un tho the head henrJ of or his tormented enemy enemy- The Ti-me Deacons Deacon's face taCe aCe was as alive all and quick with the excitement of ot the garni garnet his hla I face tace flushed with an fa eager tr gri grin hi his eyes ejes fluttering D Decent folk tolk In the J brake behind t felt Cit lt visit ings lags when they saw him turn with th the flu flushed grin and the gleaming squint on the ht head att of or his 1 victim Now for another stab stab they thought Y You u may well say flay that shouted |