Johnnie Courteau of de hill;
Dat was de boy can shoot de gun,
Dat was de boy can jomp an' run,
An' it's not very offen you ketch heem still,
Johnnie Courteau!
—WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND.
Scotty was setting out for what he hoped was his last winter at school. It was a performance he considered quite too juvenile1, and a single glance at him would convince anyone that it was high time he had put away childish things. His great, strong frame, over six feet in his "shoepacks," his brawny2 arms and hands, well developed under the toil3 of the axe4 and the plough, all spoke5 of his having reached man's estate. But his growth had somewhat outrun his years, and he had not yet reached the age when he might with propriety6 remain away from school during the winter. Besides, he had held a conference with Dan Murphy and "Hash" Tucker during the Christmas holidays to consider the matter of further education. Should they abjure7 the whole trivial business, was the question discussed, or should they attend school this winter just to see what the new master would be like, and, if possible, make things lively for him?
The latter course, being the more uncertain, offered the more entertainment and was unanimously adopted; so here was the young man, on this dazzling January morning, swinging along the silent white forest path, ready for any kind of adventure.
For Scotty had arrived at a period when the unknown and the forbidden were the alluring9, and the lawful10 and the restraining were the irksome. Indeed Rory was wont11 to grumble12 that that young Scot was just going to ruin; he had never been made to mind anybody when he was little, and now he was just growing up clean wild. For since Rory had given up fiddling13 and dancing and had settled down with Roarin' Sandy's Maggie in the north clearing he had become a very staid householder and frowned upon all youthful frivolity14. And though his prophecies were perhaps overpessimistic, there was undoubtedly16 some cause for disapproval17 in the matter of Scotty's conduct. Even Big Malcolm and his wife, who, as old age advanced, were more and more inclined to make an idol18 of their grandson, could not quite shut their eyes to his imperfections. He was the same big-hearted Scotty he had been in his childhood, lavishly20 generous and swift to respond to the call of suffering; but his high spirits were sometimes too much for the narrow confines of his life, and he was wont to break out into wild, mischievous21 pranks22.
During the last winter of poor old McAllister's feeble misrule, Scotty and his two leal followers24, Dan Murphy and "Hash" Tucker, had contrived25 to make the hard name of Number Nine notorious. So long as the three confined their misdemeanours to the school the public had winked26 at them. Disorder27 and ill-behaviour always seemed associated with old McAllister, everyone felt; and indeed Mr. Cameron, the minister, was suspected by most of the section to have had reference to the old broken-down school-teacher when he preached that solemn discourse28 upon the blind leaders of the blind. As the sermon was delivered on the Sabbath after Scotty and Dan had knocked over the stovepipes and almost burned down the school-house, Store Thompson declared he was "convinced of the certainty of the application-like."
But when the boys perpetrated acts of lawlessness beyond the precincts of school life people began to look upon them askance. Scotty had distinguished29 himself rather unpleasantly on the last Hallowe'en; for besides the usual small depredations30 which everyone expected on that historic night, someone had gone to the extremity31 of elevating Gabby Johnny Thompson's wagon32, heavily loaded with grain, to the top of the barn; and everyone in the Oa knew that nobody would have conceived of such a daring thing except Big Malcolm's Scot.
Of course, the neighbours could not fail to see some poetic33 justice in the affair, for Gabby Johnny, who was famed for his astute34 bargaining, had been voicing a wailing35 desire for high wheat ever since that grain had begun to grow along the banks of the Oro. Nevertheless, though the neighbours might secretly approve of such retributive acts of Providence36, the medium through which they descended38 was liable to be regarded with disfavour.
For while Scotty was growing up the social life of the Oro valley had been undergoing a great transformation39. John McAlpine, that great preacher whose words always awoke his hearers to a terrible realisation of the solemnity of life and the certainty of death, had come to the Glen with his imperative40 call to higher things. And at his coming the Sun of Righteousness had arisen over the Oro hills and the whole countryside had awakened41 to a new day.
Other influences had been at work, too; the spirit of the pioneer days was passing with the forests, the little isolated42 circles of cleared land had widened out and merged43 into each other like the rings on the surface of the Oro pools, and with the broader outlook came gentler manners and more tolerant views. Then this young land was slowly but surely absorbing into her own personality all the discordant44 elements and making of them a great nation; for within the last few years a new race had sprung up in the Oro valley, a race that was neither English, Irish, nor Scotch45, Highland46 nor Lowland, but a strange mixture of all, known as Canadian. The community in the Glen had grown to quite a respectable village, the post office adding a touch of dignity and necessitating47 the new name, the name of Glenoro. And best of all, there was the church just at the bend in the river, with the manse beside it where the minister lived; and such had been its influence that a fight at the corner now would have brought a shock to the whole township.
So Scotty and his followers did not properly belong to these improved times; they were mediaeval. The boy had been too young when Mr. McAlpine came to be deeply affected48 by his great sermons; but he had not outlived the stirring memory of the old fighting days when Callum kept the Oa lively. Callum was still his hero, the dear old handsome Callum, of whom he could never think even yet without a pang49 of regret. Hamish and Rory had grown beyond him with the years, but Callum was always young and bright and dashing; and Scotty was determined50 to be like him and to do the great deeds Callum would certainly have done had it not been for his untimely end.
The bell was ringing when the three conspirators51 met at the school pump. Number Nine had a bell now, and there was even some agitation52 for a new building. Poor old McAllister's wasted life had gone out the autumn before like the quenching53 of a smouldering fire, and now that a new man was to take his place the section was beginning to pick up courage and look for a hopeful future.
The young men lounged in at the end of the procession and flopped54 into their seats with the proper air of insupportable boredom55. Scotty's first task was to take the measure of his new instructor56. At the first glance he was conscious of a distinct sensation of disappointment. He had expected the stranger to be young and callow, but this man had grey hair and was apparently57 nearing middle age. His face, which was pale and showed signs of ill-health, was clearly cut and refined. His frame was well-built and wiry, and he had a pair of steady grey eyes and a quiet, dignified58 manner which seemed strangely incongruous in the position old McAllister had so long made ridiculous.
Nevertheless Scotty regarded him with strong disfavour. His white collar, his smooth hair and his English way of sharply clipping off his words stamped him as hopelessly "stuck-up"; and Dan Murphy reported with derisive59 joy that he had worn gloves to school, a weakness of which no one who called himself a man would be guilty. Besides all this, he had obtained his position through Captain Herbert; indeed, he had been a close friend of the Captain when they lived in Toronto, it was rumoured60, and he probably belonged to the aristocracy, who were hated of Scotty's soul. On the other hand, he wasn't an Englishman, for his name was Archibald Monteith, that was one thing in his favour; but he stood for order and good behaviour, and the young man was arrayed against all such.
The new master himself was quietly taking note of his surroundings. He had been thoroughly61 informed of the bad character of Number Nine, both by Captain Herbert and the trustees, not to speak of the unsolicited advice and information that had been pouring in upon him ever since his arrival. Upon the first night of his stay at Store Thompson's, a burly man with a great bushy head and beard had come suddenly upon him; and after a warm handshake and welcome had given him absolute power in the matter of dealing62 with his family.
"You lay it onto my Danny," was the generous admonition. "Sure, the young spalpeen's mad wid the foolish goin's on, an' it's a latherin' he needs ivery day. You mind an' lay it onto Danny!"
Quite as cordial but more ominous63 had been the advice proffered64 by Gabby Johnny Thompson. In his capacity of Secretary-Treasurer of the School Board that gentleman felt it incumbent65 upon him to inform the novice66 of the unsounded depths of iniquity67 he had to deal with in Number Nine. His darkest hints related to "yon ill piece o' Big Malcolm MacDonald's." A scandalous young deil he was, and Mr. Monteith would have to keep an eye on him, for him and yon young Papish of a Murphy were a bad pair. It was young Scot Malcolm who had nearly burned the school down, over McAllister's head; yes, and would have burned up old McAllister, too, without a thought, he was that thrawn and ill.
Monteith was regarding with deep interest the owner of this evil reputation. He was a rare reader of character, and understood at once the nature of Scotty's malady68. His man's frame and boy's face, his keen, bright, inquiring eyes, and the signs of abounding69 life, all fully70 explained the cause of the trouble. The schoolmaster found something irresistibly71 attractive about the boy too; there were signs of intellect in every line of his face, and he dearly loved brains.
As the school passed out for their morning intermission he beckoned72 the youth to him. Dan Murphy made a covert73 grimace74 expressive75 of his whole being's revolt against any such degrading task, and Scotty went forward reluctantly. He wanted to disobey, but the man's courtesy held him.
An old school register in which were written some seventy names lay open on the desk.
"I am hopelessly entangled76 in all these MacDonalds," said the new master, in a tone one man would use in addressing another. "Here are four Betseys and six Johnnies, and Donalds without number. Would you be so good as to assist me?"
Scotty's inbred Highland courtesy and the generous desire to help which was part of his nature, impelled77 him to answer politely. Striving to ignore the violent pantomime being enacted78 by Dan in the porch, he gave the man the key to the situation. His big finger ran awkwardly down the page as he gave the name by which each pupil was known. The stranger listened in some amusement and not a little bewilderment to the list: Roarin' Sandy's Donald, Crooked79 Duncan's Donald, Peter Archie Red's Donald. They were rather unwieldy, but he planted them down heroically, and then proceeded to disentangle the Murphys and the Tuckers after the same fashion.
"I am very much obliged to you," he said with the same quiet seriousness when the work was finished, and Scotty took his seat wondering if the new master ever smiled. Most likely that grave, unbending manner was just the natural outcome of his inevitably81 stuck-up nature, he reflected.
Affairs went harmoniously82 enough until school was dismissed for the noon recess83. As soon as the word was given dinner-pails were seized, bread-and-butter, meat, pie, and cake began to appear and disappear again with equal rapidity; a crowd of the bigger girls made preparations for brewing84 tea on the stove; and before the new master could get on his overcoat and gloves preparatory to leaving, dinner was well under way, and the room was filled with a strong aroma85 of tea and pork.
Scotty had gone to the door to administer a farewell snowball to the unclassified aliens who went home to the village for dinner. A prompt answer came hurtling back, and as he dodged86 into the porch with a derisive yell of laughter, he barely escaped knocking over the new master. He hastily stepped aside to let him pass, but the man paused.
"I forgot to ask you your own name, among all the others," he said, more for the sake of engaging the youth in conversation than to gain information. "You are a MacDonald, too, I believe?"
Scotty had long passed the time when he felt his English name a disgrace. Of course he would have preferred one of another sort, but he scarcely thought of it now, and most of his schoolmates had forgotten that he possessed87 one. And, in the face of this grave man's courtesy, he felt it would be childish to pretend, so he answered, not without some dignity, "No, my name will not be MacDonald, it will be Stanwell, Ralph Stanwell."
The new master's grey eyes grew suddenly narrow; he was well acquainted with all the small tricks to be played upon a newcomer, and had many a time seen this one of a fictitious88 name successfully practiced. He had been prepared to find this boy hard to manage, but he was disgusted that he should descend37 to such a small, childish prank23. He knew Scotty's name only too well, and, in any case, for a youth with a marked Highland accent, dressed in the grey homespun which seemed the uniform of the clan89 MacDonald, to stand before him and give himself such a name as this was as stupid as it was insulting.
"That is a very clumsy lie," he remarked quietly.
Scotty dropped his snowball and stared; for a moment he did not quite comprehend.
"I said," returned the man very distinctly, "that you have told me a lie, and a very stupid one, for I know your name to be Scot MacDonald, and a rather notorious one you have made it, too."
And turning his back in disgust, the new master walked quietly down the snowy road. For an instant Scotty stood glaring after him, every drop of his rebellious91 blood tingling92. He snatched up his snowball again and took aim. If he could only smash that conceited93 looking hat, or better still, the insufferable white collar! But there was something in the commanding air of the figure that went so steadily94 onward95, not deigning96 to look back, that held the boy's arm.
Instead, he sent the missile crashing into the last remaining pane97 in the porch window, and went leaping into the school, determined to find Dan and relieve his feelings by working some irreparable damage.
The schoolhouse was in a condition to invite depredations. Late in the previous autumn, as soon as the news of the new master's expected advent8 had come, the matrons of Number Nine had organised a housecleaning campaign in the school. Store Thompson's wife, that queen of housekeepers98, headed the expedition against dirt, and even the minister's wife took part. The former lady had long declared that the condition of the schoolhouse was clean ridic'l'us, and now demanded that something be done to better it, for as the new master was coming from the Captain's he was sure to be a gentleman, and most like would be terrible tidy.
So the army of housekeepers had charged down upon the schoolhouse, and such a washing and cleansing99 and renovating100 as took place had certainly never been paralleled except when the spring winds and waters came swirling101 down the Oro hills. The poor little building was scarcely recognisable when it emerged from its baptism of soapy water and whitewash102. The big girls added an artistic103 touch by decorating the spotless walls with cedar104 boughs105, until the place smelled as sweet as the swamps of the Oro; and to crown all, the minister presented it with a fine picture of Queen Victoria to be hung above the master's desk.
And this was the immaculate condition of the place where, when his dinner was finished, Scotty's roving eye sought something upon which to work off his burning indignation.
It had always been the custom heretofore in Number Nine to employ the noon recess tearing round the room in a cloud of dust, yelling, throwing ink and breaking furniture. But to-day the awe106 of the new master had had a restraining influence, and most of the wilder spirits had betaken themselves to an outdoor campaign. So there were only a few of the smaller pupils and the larger girls grouped round the stove when Scotty started his new enterprise. The cedar wreath above the door was quite dry and rather dusty and offered a fine field for a unique exploit. Lighting107 a splinter at the stove, he set fire to the garland, allowed the flames to mount up, and just as they threatened to get beyond his control, beat them out with his cap. The girls shrieked108 in horror; Betty Lauchie screamed that he was a wretch109, and the minister himself would be after him, and Biddy Murphy vowed110 she'd pull every hair of his worthless head out for him if he tried it again. But Scotty was joyously111 reckless and quite beyond fear of even Miss Murphy.
When Dan returned from the slaughter112 of the Philistines113, who lived over on the Tenth, he found his chum the centre of a wildly excited group, and engaged in beating out his third conflagration114. Dan was immediately fired to emulation115. He would be disgraced forever in the eyes of the Flats if he allowed Scotty to get ahead of him, and already the room was filling with admiring MacDonalds and envious116 Murphys. So, in spite of the imploring117 shrieks118 and commands of the girls, he struck a match and soon had the festoons along the wall crackling merrily. When this rival blaze was extinguished Hash Tucker stepped into public notice. Considering his blood and breeding, this son of the house of Tucker should have been a phlegmatic119 Saxon. But no one can say what Canadian air will do with the blood; and under its influence Hash had long ago commenced a reversion to type, the aboriginal120 wild Indian. Whatever Scotty or Dan did therefore, that he could outdo. Seizing a burning brand from the stove, he scrambled121 up on the teacher's rickety old desk, and the next moment the triumphal arch, reared in honour of the new master's coming, was in a blaze. But just as he reached up to beat out the flames he was gripped violently round the knees, and down he came to the floor, Scotty on the top of him. Hash roared lustily for his followers; the Tenth responded gallantly122, Scotty was engulfed123 in their on-rush, and, to help on the good work, Dan Murphy headed a rescue party from the Oa to extricate124 his friend from the yelling heap.
What the outcome of this affray might have been is doubtful, but just at its inception125 a terrified cry of "fire," from the remainder of the school parted the combatants. They came to their feet to find the flames leaping up the walls, and clouds of smoke rolling through the room.
It was no joke this time and the boys wasted not an instant. Scotty leaped from the floor to head an impromptu126 fire brigade, and for a few moments they worked desperately127. They dragged down the burning branches and flung them out of doors; they flew to and from the pump, they flung snow and water among the flames, and after a short but desperate struggle the fire was conquered.
It was all over in a few moments, and the victors stood, begrimed and breathless, and rather ruefully surveyed the havoc128 they had unwittingly wrought129. The lately spotless walls were scorched130 and blackened, the decorations depended from the fastenings, charred131 and ugly, and the floor was swimming in inky water.
"Horo!" cried Scotty, with a long, dismayed whistle.
"It'll be bad for the gent's white collar if he comes in here," said Dan solemnly. "Murderin' blazes, who's that?"
Now, it happened that by an evil chance Gabby Johnny, the Secretary-Treasurer, had been driving past the school on his way to the woods, and seeing smoke issuing from the windows of the building over which he considered himself the especial guardian132, he stopped his team and rushed upon the scene, and there he stood now, in the silent crowd of frightened girls and sobered boys, gazing at the devastation133 with such an expression of aghast horror, that at the sight of him all Scotty's compunction vanished and he laughed aloud.
Gabby Johnny peered through the smoke and discerned his enemy, evidently rejoicing over his evil work.
"Ah, ye ill piece!" he shouted, stepping up to the boy and shaking his fist in his face, "Ah kenned134 it was you! Aye, Ah kenned! If there's ony scandal'us goin's on ye'll be in it! It's an evil end ye're comin' til, wi' yer goin's on; aye, that's what ye are! Ye neither fear God, nor regard man! Sik a like onceevilised——"
Now Gabby Johnny was prepared upon all occasions to prove his right to his sobriquet135, and Dan Murphy well knew he would not stop until he had driven Scotty to extreme measures, so here he mercifully interfered136 in his friend's behalf. He had no mind to defy a trustee, so, being of a diplomatic turn, determined to divert the tide of wrath137 by the simple expedient138 of producing a counter-irritant. He slipped out quietly from the line of culprits, and snatching up a well-packed snowball hurled139 it straight and true at the team standing140 in the road. The missile was a hard one, and the nervous young colts, their heads erect141, their nostrils142 indignant, went jingling143 off down the road, their heels sending a fine snowstorm over the old bobsleigh, leaping in their wake.
Gabby Johnny heard his bells and his eloquence144 suddenly ceased. At the same instant Dan burst in upon him, his eyes starting from his head, his breath coming in gasps145.
"Sure, your team's runnin' away!" he bawled146. "They're runnin' away! I can't stop them; they're gone clane wild!"
Gabby Johnny waited neither to hear nor deliver more. He darted147 out and down the road, followed by a hailstorm of snowballs and the joyful148 cheers of Number Nine. And as he went he howled breathless anathemas149, alternately at his wayward horses and back at the yelling mob behind him, both couched in language little calculated to raise the moral status of the already besmirched150 school.
But the boys' trouble was not over; they returned from the rout151 of the trustee only to find the new master entering the scene of destruction. He stood and looked about him with a manner just as quiet, but no graver, than usual.
"How did the fire start?" he asked calmly.
The dauntless three stepped forward, headed by Scotty. In the old days confession152 to McAllister did not appear in the code of schoolboy honour; but there was something about this man, even though Scotty cordially hated him, which demanded fair dealing. The new master looked them over in a manner that was hardly complimentary153. His eyebrows154 rose.
"Children!" was all he said, but the word made Scotty writhe155. Then he did not scold or rave80 as the boys half-wished he would. He quietly dismissed all but the three culprits, and saying he would give them that afternoon and the next day to bring the school back to the condition in which they had found it, and that done, he would prefer that they remain at home under their parents' control for a month or so, he turned on his heel and walked away with an air that said plainly that this was no affair of his and was regarded by him with calm indifference156.
The boys were completely taken aback. Hitherto school discipline had consisted exclusively of thrashings, which though uncomfortable had some honour attached. But here was a new departure; to have to undo15 all one's mischief157, and then be contemptuously dismissed was a serious affair. The new master acted as though he were the King of England too, and certainly, with Gabby Johnny at his back, he was not to be trifled with.
When the three arrived the next morning, armed with whitewash and brushes, Dan and Hash were rather inclined to feel subdued158, but not so Scotty. In his home discipline was not so rigid159 as in that of the other two, and his grandparents had not even heard of his escapade. And his heart was still raging hot against the new master. The man had dared to tell him he lied! The remembrance of it and Monteith's air of calm superiority maddened him. How he longed to knock him down and hear him take back his statement. Well, he could not do that, it seemed, but he would wreak160 his vengeance161 in some other way.
So with Scotty in this mood the work of reparation did not go on very steadily. His two companions tried to attend to business, but soon found it impossible. They were alone in the forest with unlimited162 whitewash; and with Scotty inciting163 them to deeds of daring, how could they resist? They started by enduring their leader's pranks, and ended by embracing them, and when their morning's task was completed not even McAllister's ghost, could it have appeared, would have recognised its old haunts.
Yet no one could say the boys had not done their work, for they had whitewashed164 the school with a thoroughness even Store Thompson's wife would never have attempted. The only fault was the lack of discrimination shown by the decorators. Some critics might have considered the coating of the floor and the desks a work of supererogation. But the boys were not stingy; they whitewashed everything with an impartial165 and lavish19 generosity166; the walls, the ceiling, the blackboard, the furniture. Yes, even the stove and stovepipes were rubbed until they fairly radiated whiteness, and stood out spectrally167 in their pallid168 surroundings, like the ghost of some departed heater. Scotty gave the new master's desk an extra coat, and even polished up a stray book and dinner pail, unluckily left behind the day before, just to have them in harmony with their environment.
When at last the work was finished and the three bespattered workmen prepared to depart, Dan declared in an oratorical169 address delivered from the top of the master's snowy desk, that they had nobly done their duty, for had they not carried out the new master's instructions and whitewashed the school?
And when they turned the white key in the white door and stole off in three directions through the forest, bursting with mirth, they vowed they had not experienced such a season of pure joy since the night Gabby Johnny's waggon170 had arisen, like Charles's Wain, in the heavens!
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