Show THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS o I BY GEORGE DOUGLASS D I Copyright 1 2 P Phillips Co o CHAPTER XV XV Continued Gourlay turned to him quietly Thank you ou baker baiter he ho said fald slowly But nut dont don't on my behalf John he he dwelt on his name In ringing ln pride John pride John can light fight for Cor his own hand hand It if so o. o there need to tobe be And pay no heed to the thing beare before before be be- fore are ye e The mair ye tr tramp mp on a n. dirt It spreads the wider Who Vho was referring to you ou 7 bellowed bellowed bel bel- lowed Brodle Brodie Gourlay Courlay looked over o at him In the far Car corner of or the brake with the wide open glower that made people blink Brodle blinked rapidly trying to stare fiercely the while Mayhe ye werna referring to me said Gourlay slowly nut But if IC I had been in your our end of the brake ye e would have been heen In hell or this He lie had said MId enough There was sIlence si silence sI- sI lence hence In the brake till it reached Skei- Skei Khan ghan han But the evil ovll was done Enough had been said to Influence Gourlay to tho most disastrous resolution of oC his 11 lire life c. c Oct Get youn yourself elC ready for the college In October he his son that even even- In Ins ln The fhe college e cried cr John aghast Yes Is there In that to gape Jape at snapped hl his father In sudden sudden sud sud- den at the boys boy's amaze But flut I dont don't want ant to gang John whimpered as before Want Vant What hat does it matter what you ou wan want t You should be damned glad of oC the chancel I mean to make yc ye e a minister they minIster they have ha plenty of mone money and little to do do-a do a grand easy life liCe ot MacCandlish tells me roe yaure oure a stupid ass but have e some Borne gift of or words You have ha every qualification Its against my will John bawled a angrily n ly Your will vIll sneered his father To John the lie command was not only tyrannical but treacherous There had been nothing to warn him of oC a coming change for Cor Gourlay was vas too contemptuous of oC his wife and children to Inform them how his business g stood tood John had hall been heen brought up tip to go Into the business and now v at the last moment moment moment mo mo- ment he was undeceived and ordered off ort to a ne new life from which every In Instinct Instinct In In- of oC his heln being shrank afraid He Tie was cursed with an Imagination In excess excess ex ex- ex- ex cess of oC his brains brain and In the haze of the future he saw two pictures with uncanny himself In bleak lodgings raising his head from Virgil to wonder what they were doing at home tonight and contrasted that loneliness the others his cronies I laughing u along along- the country roads benEath beneath beneath be be- neath nE-ath the glimmer of or the stars They would be having the fine ploys while he was mewed up In Edinburgh Must he leave loved lond Barbie and the House with the Green n Shutters must he lie still drudge at books which he loathed loathE must he venture on a new life where everything e terrified his mind Its a shame he cried And I Ire re refuse refuse re- re fuse fUle to go I dont don't want to leave Barbie Bar Bar- ole bie Im I'm feared of oC Edinburgh Edinburgh- and there he topped shopped In conscious Impotence impotence Impo impo- tence of oC speech How lIow could he ex explaIn explain ex- ex plain his forebodings to a rock of a a. aman aman man like his father No more ot oU roared Gourlay flIngIng flinging flinging fling flIng- ing Ing- out his 1111 hand band nil Not another word You go to colle college o In October Aye man Johnny said aid his mother think 0 o the future that's before ye yc c Ae ye howled the youth routh in sill silly anger anger an nn ger Its like to he be a Q braw future Its Il the best hest future you ou can have growled his father For while rivalry born of or hate hale was tho the f propelling influence in Gourlays Gourlay's mind other reasons whispered that the course suggested ted b by hate was a n. good one on Its merits His Judgment such as It was supported th the Impulse of ot his blood It told him that the old business would be a poor heritage e for tor his son n and that It would be well to look for another opening The boy gave e a no sign of oC a aggressive e smartness to warrant n a belief that he lie would ever er pull the thing to together ether Better Detter make him a a. minister Surely there was vas enough mone money left about the thc Hou lIou for tor tha-at tha It was the best besl that could beall befall befall be be- fall all him Mrs l Gourlay for her part thou though h sorry to lose loe her son ron on was so pleased at the thought of or Bending him to college college col col- col lege and making him a minister that th she ran on In a foolish Coolish maternal gabble to the wife of ot Mrs informed the go gossips and they the discussed the matter at the Cross Dod said Sandy Toddle Gourlays better off off than I Huts said paid Brodle Brodie Its Just a n. bluff t to blind folk Coli It would fit him better said the Doctor If JC he spent ent some money on his laughter daughter Sh She ought to pass the winter Inter In n fl warmer locality than Bar Bar- bie The lassie han ban a a. poor chest I told Gourlay but he only gave gl a grunt runt And oh said Mrs Irs Gourlay It wo would be bo a a. l nfl like thing to send fend her away when John maun be weel for tor forthe forthe the college D' D Dyc c know v. Im I'm beginning to think theres there's something seriously wrong with yon on womans woman's health She seamed anxious to consult me on her own o account but when I offered to pound her she he wouldn't hear of oC ItNa itNa It ItNa It- It Na she cried Ill Til keep it to and and put nut her arm across her breast as If It t to keep me off orr I do think she she's s hiding some complaint Only a woman whose mind was weak with dl disease could we lve been heen BO so callous as yon about her lassie Oh her minds mind's weak weale enough said Sandy Toddle It was always that I But Its It's only because Gourlay has t- t I her verra soul Im I'm surprised sur sun I however ver that he lie should be careless s of the girl lie was aye ae said to h ho ha upon hor lion Men folk are nrc often orten like that about lassie weans lassie weans said Johnny Johnn Coe They like well enough to pet them when they're wee hut but when once they're bl big I they never look the road they're on They're a a. very fine when they're there pets but they're no cae cac fine when they're pretty misses And And to tell the truth Janet Gourlays Gourlay's but bu pretty Old Oid Bleach thc the bitter blUer domInie dominie dom dom- inie who rarely ly left the studies In po political po- po economy conom which ho lie found a n solace solace sol sol sol- I ace for Cor his thwarted powers I to be at the Cross that evening i- i iA A A brooding nb and taciturn man he said nothing till others had their say Then he shook his lila head making a great mistake he lie said grave gravely there making a no great mistake Yon You boys boy's the last laet youngster oun ter on earth who should go to college Aye man dominie domInic hes he's an nn Infernal 1 ass S. S is he float they cried and anil pressed ell for or ils 1118 Judgment At last partly In real pedantry partly with humorous Int Intent nt to puzzle them he delivered his astounding mind The fault of oC young oung Gourlay he lie is a sensory perceptiveness In gro gross s excess excess- 9 of oC his intellectuality The They blinked and tried to understand Aye man dominie domInic said ald Sandy Tod Toil die dle That means mean's an Infernal Internal cudd cuddy dominie dominic R it na dominie dominic fiu But t boys Bleach boys had said theres theresa said enough Aye A he lie a n. licen guy cuddles in Barbie and and he went hade hack to hl his stuffy turry little room to stud study The rhe Wealth of oC Nations CHAPTER XV The scion of oC the house of oC Gourlay was a a. most untra sprig when his father packed him off to the un uner er erbIt bIt sity Of the world beyond he lie had no Idea ne Regression of oC his childrens children's wishes to see something of oC the world sonid was a f feature of Gourias s 's tyranny less leas for tor the sake of oC m money Ocy which a trip might cost though th that t counted for Cor something In his refusal than for the sake of oC m asserting his au au- au l Wants to gang cang to Let Iet t him bide at itt home he nc would growl and at home the youngster youngster young young- ster had ban to bide This had been lie more Irksome to John since most of oC his companions In the town were beginning begin begin- fling ning to peer veer out with their s and daddies addles to encourage them To Tosho give give- their cubs a l cast o the world l' l was as a rule with the lie potentates of oC Barhie Bar Bar- bie hie once or twice a year a young youn Hope Hope- tel ful was allowed d to accompany his sire to or or or or-oh oh rare jo joy to to to the elt city on the Clyde fo To go farther r. r and and ancl get set the length len of oC Edinburgh Edin Edin- burgh was sas dan dangerous c rou because you came hack back with a halo of oC glory glor round your head hend which banded your our fellows a 0 common attack on your our pretensions It was sas his lack Inck of or pretension pretension pretension pre pre- tension to travel however that banded them against young Gourlay Gunk and chaw are the Scots for tor a hitter and ami lou envious disappointment whIch shows s Itself In face and eyes Young Go Gourlay could never conceal that envious en en- look when he lie heard of a glory clor which he did not share and the youngsters youngsters young young- noted hIs with the unerring unerring un un- un erring precision lor of oC the urchin to mark simple difference of ot character N Now the bo boy pi presses esses fiendishly on an Intimate Intimate intimate Inti Inti- mate discovery Overy In the nature of oC his friends both because It gives him a n anew anew new and delightful feeling of oC power rower over o them and also because he has not learned charlt charity from Crom a n. sen sense e of oC his deficiencies de de- de- de the brave e ruffian having ln none lie Is always comIng comIng- back to probe the raw mw place and B Barbie boys were always coming back to do n a gunk lInk and plo piny a chaw on young Gourlay h by boasting their knowledge of the world sinking Inking at nt each other the while to observe his grinning anger The They were lar large e on the wonders they had seen cen and the places they had been to to while he grew small and they saIt saw sa It In envy of or their superiority Even had o crow at him For had In the company of oC his liln father to off far F chars yea ca even cven to the Calr and arid came backwIth back hack backwith I with nn on epic tale talc of oC his adventures ad He had been In fifteen taverns and one hotel a Temperance hotel where ok old I Brown Drown bashed the proprietor for re refusing refusing rousIng ro- ro I fusing usIng to supply him with gin one Peppers Pepper's Ghost on one Wild lid Beasts Beasts' Show one Exhibition of oC the Fattest Woman on the Earth Eaith also in the precincts of oC one where Mr Ir Patrick Brown Drown was cruelly Incarcerate for Cor wiping the floor with the cold of oC the pin gln In Griffons said for tor fora tora a twelvemonth after stunned by the mere recollection of or that home of or the Glories of ot the earth And when whan he would begin t tc 19 i expatiate for Cor the ben ben- eli of young young- O G Gourlay for Cor though his naJ name c was sas th the b base T TeutonIc uton Ic Ie Brown had harI a Celtic contempt for tor brute facts that lint cripple the Imperial mind mIni So well did dIll he expatiate that young oung Gourlay would slink home to his I mother and sa say Yah Yoh even een Broon has been to though my falther ull no allow rue me me Never mind lean dear she would soothe him when once youre you're in th the bu business you'll gang And nut wan wan wano o o them m has sic a business s to gang gang- gangIn in- in till But though he longed to go o here am and there for tor a lay day that he might be able to boast of It at nt home young youns Gourlay felt Cell that leaving Barbie for Cor good would be a cutting of ot his strings heart Each feature of or It it town and lan landward ward was a n. crony of oC old years rs In a land lam like Barbie of oC quick hill hili and dale of tumbled wood mid fell tell each facet of oC nature ha has an nn PO so separate separate sepa sepa- rate rote and so o strong that if Jr you live e with It a little It becomes comes your friend and a memory memon so Ilear dear that you jou oU kIss the thought of It In absence The fields are not similar as pancakes the they have their difference each leJ leaps 3 to th the e eye e with a n remembered and und peculiar peculiar peculiar liar charm That Is wh why the heart of oC the Scot Foot dies In flat Southern lantis he lives In a vacancy at dawn there thee I ia is no Ben Aura ACay to nod reco recognition through the mists And that Is why when he gets north of oC Carlisle he shouts with glee clee as each remembered object sweeps on the sight yonder yonder's the Nith with sIth a fisherman hip deep Jigging at his rod and yonder's onders Cor Car with the mist on his brow ItIs It ItIs Is 18 less the totality of oC the place than the Individual features that pulls at the heart hent and It was the Individual feature that pulled at young oung Gourlay With Intellect little or none he ho had a vast sensational experience and each aspect aspect aspect as as- of oC Barbie was working working- In his blood and brain Was as there ever cr a n. aCross aCross Cross like Barbie Buble Cross was there ever a burn like Lintie It was blithe and heart to go to ghan shan In the train It was grand to Jouk round Barbie on on the al aleen at een Even en people whom he did not know he could locate with warm sure feelings of superiority If IC a poor workman workman work work- man slouched past him on the he road he set him down In iii his heart ns DS one of or that rotten crowd from rom the Weavers Weaver's Vennel or the Tinkers Tinker's Barbie was In itt subjection to the mind of oC the theOn son On of oC the Important mo mci To dash about Barbie In n a no hl gig with a big do dog walloping behind his coat collar high al about out his hla ears and the reek reck of ot a Q meerschaum meer sneer meerI I chlUm pipe floating white and blue many yards behind him Jovial lal and son por- did nonsense about home home that that had been his Ideal His ills lather he thought though angrily had har encouraged the ideal Idell and nd now he forbade it It like the brute he hewa hewa wa was From the earth In which he lie was rooted so deeply his father tore him to fling mOb him on a n. world he hc had hall forbidden forbid forbId- den ilen him to l know no His heart I presaged rr disaster Old GourlaY would have scorned the tho sentimentality of or seeing him hire o off from the station and nd Mrs 1 Gourlay was as too feckless to propose it for or herself Ja Janet Janet Ja- Ja net liet had offered to convoy him but when the afternoon came she W was lS down with a racking cold cold- He lie was alone as ashe ashe ashe he strolled on tho the platform a youth well groomed and well sup well supplied lI d. d but for once In his life not a n s sa swaggerer swaggerer- a JI though the chance to swagger iKer was wa I unique He lie was pointed pAInted out as ns oun oung But ho had Gourlay of off orr to college his heart no pleasure in the role tot for in his boots |