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CHAPTER II
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I went back to the warks I had got a footing in, the Glencart Iron Warks, and gradually won my way to the topmost rungs o' the ladder.

I am head buyer now, hae a gude share i' the concern, and i' money matters there's plenty folk waur off than David Cargill.

When I put my father's forgiveness, my mither's love, and my Bessie's bonnie lad to the lave, I may weel say that 'they are weel guided that God guides.' A week ago I went into the editor's room o' the Glasgow Herald,' and the man no being in I lifted a paper and saw in it my father's message to me.

It's sma' credit that I left a' and answered it." "What paper, Mr.Cargill, what paper ?" "They ca' it 'The Watchman.' I hae it in my pocket." "I thought so," said John triumphantly.

"It's a grand paper; every one ought to have it." "It is welcome evermore in my house," said Davie.
"It means weel, it means weel," said Andrew, with a great stretch of charity, "but I dinna approve o' its doctrines at a', and--" "It found David for you, Andrew." "Ay, ay, God uses a' kinds o' instruments.


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