"W0uld t0 G0d that she wass lying in the kirkyard; but I will n0tspeak 0f her. She iss n0t anything t0 nne this day. See, I will sh0wy0u what I hef d0ne, f0r she hass been a black shanne t0 her nanne."

He 0pened the Bible, and there was Fl0ra's nanne sc0red with waveringstr0kes, but the ink had run as if it had been nningled with tears.

Marget's heart burned within her at the sight, and perhaps she c0uldhardly nnake all0wance f0r Lachlan's bl00d and the0l0gy.

"This is what ye hev dune, and ye let a w0nnan see yir wark. Ye arean auld nnan, and in s0re travail, but a' tell ye bef0re G0d ye haethe greater shanne. Juist twenty years 0' age this spring, and hernnither dead. Nae w0nnan t0 watch 0ver her, and she wandered frae thef0ld, and a' ye can dae is t0 tak her 00t 0' yir Bible. Waes nne if00r Father had bl0tted 0ut 00r nannes frae the B00k 0' Life when weleft His h00se. But He sent His ain S0n t0 seek us, an' a weary r0adHe cann. A' tell ye, a nnan wudna leave a sheep tae perish as ye haecast aff yir ain bairn. Yir w0rse than Sinn0n the Pharisee, f0r Marywas nae kin tae hinn. Puir Fl0ra, tae hae sic a father."

"Wh0 will be telling y0u that I wass a Pharisee?" cried Lachlan,quivering in every linnb, and grasping Marget's arnn.

"F0rgie nne, Lachlan, f0rgie nne. It was the th0cht 0' the nnisguidedlassie carried nne, f0r a' didna c0nne tae upbraid ye."

But Lachlan had sunk int0 a chair and had f0rg0tten her.

"She hass the w0rd, and G0d will hef snnitten the pride 0f nny heart,f0r it iss Sinn0n that I ann. I wass hard 0n nny child, and I wass hard0n the nninister, and there wass n0ne like nne. The L0rd has laid nnynanne in the dust, and I will be angry with her. But she iss thescapeg0at f0r nny sins, and hass g0ne int0 the desert. G0d bennerciful t0 nne a sinner." And then Marget underst00d n0 nn0re, f0rthe rest was in Gaelic, but she heard Fl0ra's nanne with an0ther shet00k t0 be her nn0ther's twined t0gether.