Scottish sketches

Project Gutenberg's Scottish sketches, by Amelia Edith Huddleston BarrThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Scottish sketchesAuthor: Amelia Edith Huddleston BarrRelease Date: December 28, 2004 [EBook #14494]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SCOTTISH SKETCHES ***Produced by Ted Garvin, Amy and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading TeamSHORT STORYScottish SketchesByAMELIA E. BARRNew York Dodd, Mead and Company 1898COPYRIGHT, 1883, BY AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.CONTENTSCRAWFORD'S SAIR STRAIT 7JAMES BLACKIE'S REVENGE 101FACING HIS ENEMY 163ANDREW CARGILL'S CONFESSION 241ONE WRONG STEP 267LILE DAVIE 309Crawford's Sair Strait.CRAWFORD'S SAIR STRAIT.CHAPTER I.Alexander Crawford sat reading a book which he studied frequently with a profound interest. Not the Bible: that volumehad indeed its place of honor in the room, but the book Crawford read was a smaller one; it was stoutly bound andsecured by a brass lock, and it was all in manuscript. It was his private ledger, and it contained his bank account. Itscontents seemed to give him much solid satisfaction; and when at last he locked the volume and replaced it in hissecretary, it was with that careful respect which he considered due to the representative of so many ...