To lady Galbraith he confided his uneasiness about lady Arctura--not
that he could explain--he could only confess himself infected with
her uneasiness, and the rather that he knew better than she the
nature of those with whom she might have to cope. If Mrs. Brookes
had not been there, he dared not have come away, he said, leaving
her with such a dread upon her.
Sir Gibbie listened open-mouthed to the tale of the finding of the
lost chapel, hidden away because it held the dust of the dead, and
perhaps sometimes their wandering ghosts.
They assured him that, if he would bring lady Arctura to them, they
would take care of her: had she not better give up the weary
property, they said, and come and live with them, and be free as the
lark? But Donal said, that, if God had given her a property, he
would not have her forsake her post, but wait for him to relieve
her. She must administer her own kingdom ere she could have an
abundant entrance into his! Only he wished he were near her again to
help her!
CHAPTER LXXII.
SENT, NOT CALLED.
He had been at home about ten days, during which not a word had come
to Davie or himself from the castle, and was beginning to grow, not
perhaps anxious, but hungry for news of lady Arctura, when from a
sound sleep he started suddenly awake one midnight to find his
mother by his bedside: she had roused him with difficulty.
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