The wind made scenery in the sky, heaping up snowy masses of cloud against the blue in picturesque groups resembling Alpine heights, and fantastic palaces of fairyland, and when,--after a glorious day of fresh and invigorating air which swept both sea and hillside, a sudden calm came with the approach of sunset, the lovely colours of earth and heaven, melting into one another, where so pure and brilliant, that Mary, always a lover of Nature, could not resist Angus Reay's earnest entreaty that she would accompany him to see the splendid departure of the orb of day, in all its imperial panoply of royal gold and purple.
"It will be a beautiful sunset," he said--"And from the 'Giant's Castle' rock, a sight worth seeing." Helmsley looked at him as he spoke, and looking, smiled.
"Do go, my dear," he urged--"And come back and tell me all about it." "I really think you want me out of your way, David!" she said laughingly.

"You seem quite happy when I leave you!" "You don't get enough fresh air," he answered evasively.

"And this is just the season of the year when you most need it." She made no more demur, and putting on the simple straw hat, which, plainly trimmed with a soft knot of navy-blue ribbon, was all her summer head-gear, she left the house with Reay.

After a while, Helmsley also went out for his usual lonely ramble on the shore, from whence he could see the frowning rampart of the "Giant's Castle" above him, though it was impossible to discern any person who might be standing at its summit, on account of the perpendicular crags that intervened.

From both shore and rocky height the scene was magnificent.