"And I will be going with you that way." As Mrs.Murray left the room, Maimie came around to where Ranald was standing and said to him, gently, "You knew him well, didn't you ?" "Yes," replied Ranald, in an indifferent tone, as if unwilling to talk with her about it.
"And you were very fond of him ?" went on Maimie.
Ranald caught the tremor in her voice and looked at her.

"Yes," he said, with an effort.

"He was good to me in the camp.

Many's the time he made it easy for me.

He was next to Macdonald Bhain with the ax, and, man, he was the grand fighter--that is," he added, adopting the phrase of the Macdonald gang, "when it was a plain necessity." Then, forgetting himself, he began to tell Maimie how Big Mack had borne himself in the great fight a few weeks before.