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CHAPTER VIII HOW A MIDDLE-AGED CRUSADER ACCEPTED A CHALLENGE
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The first cocks had just begun to crow and the clocks had not yet struck five when Dickson presented himself at Mrs. Morran's back door. That active woman had already been half an hour out of bed, and was drinking her morning cup of tea in the kitchen. She received him with cordiality, nay2, with relief.
"Eh, sirs, but I'm glad to see ye back. Guid kens3 what's gaun on at the Hoose thae days. Mr. Heritage left here yestreen, creepin' round by dyke-sides and berry-busses like a wheasel. It's a mercy to get a responsible man in the place. I aye had a notion ye wad come back, for, thinks I, nevoy Dickson is no the yin to desert folk in trouble.... Whaur's my wee kist?... Lost, ye say. That's a peety, for it's been my cheese-box thae thirty year."
Dickson ascended4 to the loft5, having announced his need of at least three hours' sleep. As he rolled into bed his mind was curiously6 at ease. He felt equipped for any call that might be made on him. That Mrs. Morran should welcome him back as a resource in need gave him a new assurance of manhood.[Pg 155]
He woke between nine and ten to the sound of rain lashing7 against the garret window. As he picked his way out of the mazes8 of sleep and recovered the skein of his immediate9 past, he found to his disgust that he had lost his composure. All the flock of fears that had left him when, on the top of the Glasgow tram-car, he had made the great decision had flown back again and settled like black crows on his spirit. He was running a horrible risk and all for a whim10. What business had he to be mixing himself up in things he did not understand? It might be a huge mistake, and then he would be a laughing stock; for a moment he
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