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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 at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Green Fire - A Romance - -Author: Fiona Macleod - -Release Date: November 2, 2013 [EBook #44091] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREEN FIRE *** - - - - -Produced by Les Galloway, sp1nd and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44091 ***</div> <h1>GREEN FIRE</h1> @@ -490,7 +449,7 @@ air with vanishing spirals of music, swift and passionate in the ascent, repetitive and less piercing in the narrowing downward gyres. From every whin the poignant, monotonous -note of the yellow-hammer reëchoed. Each +note of the yellow-hammer reëchoed. Each pastoral hedge was alive with robins, chaffinches, and the dusky shadows of the wild-mice<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> darting here and there among the greening @@ -587,7 +546,7 @@ avenues of the oak-woods of Kerival, the nightingales reach their uttermost western flight. Never has the shepherd, tending his scant flock on the upland pastures of -Finistère, nor the fisherman lying a-dream +Finistère, nor the fisherman lying a-dream amid the sandy thickets of Ushant, heard that quaint music—that primeval and ever young song of the passionate heart @@ -608,13 +567,13 @@ ancient, remote land. Here the few hamlets and fewer scattered villages are, even in externals, the same as they were a hundred or three hundred years ago. In essentials, there -is no difference since St. Hervé or St. Ronan -preached the new faith, or indeed since Ahès +is no difference since St. Hervé or St. Ronan +preached the new faith, or indeed since Ahès the Pale rode through the forest aisles in the moonlight and heard the Nains chanting, or since King Gradlon raced his horse against the foam when his daughter let the sea in -upon the fair city of Ys. The good <i>curés</i> +upon the fair city of Ys. The good <i>curés</i> preach the religion of Christ and of Mary to the peasants; but in the minds of most of these there lingers much of the bygone faith @@ -628,7 +587,7 @@ its menace, its perilous enchantment. The eyes of the peasants by these shores, these moors, these windy hill-slopes of the south, are not fixed only on the meal-chest and the -fallow-field, or, on fête-days, upon the crucifix<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +fallow-field, or, on fête-days, upon the crucifix<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> in the little church; but often dwell upon a past time, more sacred now than ever in this bitter relinquishing age. On the lips of many @@ -695,7 +654,7 @@ cry out against the predatory sea fowl <i>A gas ar Gall—a gas ar Gall!</i> (Chase the Franks!)<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> and not know that, ages ago, this cry went up from the greatest of Breton kings, when -Nomenoë drove the Frankish invaders beyond +Nomenoë drove the Frankish invaders beyond the Oust and the Vilaine, and lighted their flight by the flames of Nantes and Rennes.</p> @@ -706,7 +665,7 @@ It was and is surrounded by woods, for the most part of oak and chestnut and beech. Therein are trees of an age so great that they may have sheltered the flight of Jud Mael, -when Ahès chased him on her white stallion +when Ahès chased him on her white stallion from glade to glade, and one so venerably old that its roots may have been soaked in the blood of their child Judik, whom she forced @@ -729,20 +688,20 @@ by the green flow of the tides.</p> <p>None of the peasants knew the age of the House of Kerival, or how long the Kerival -family had been there. Old Yann Hénan, the -blind brother of the white-haired <i>curé</i>, Père +family had been there. Old Yann Hénan, the +blind brother of the white-haired <i>curé</i>, Père Alain, who was the oldest man in all the countryside, was wont to say that Kerival woods had been green before ever there was a house on the banks of the Seine, and that a Kerival had been lord of the land before ever there was a king of France. All believed this, -except Père Alain, and even he dissented only +except Père Alain, and even he dissented only when Yann spoke of the seigneur's ancestor as the Marquis of Kerival; for, as he explained, there were no marquises in those far-off days. But this went for nothing; for, -unfortunately, Père Alain had once in his +unfortunately, Père Alain had once in his youth preached against the popular belief in Korrigans and Nains, and had said that these<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> supernatural beings did not exist, or at any @@ -796,7 +755,7 @@ time the familiar story of how Paskou-Hir the tailor was treated by the Nains when he sought to rifle the hidden treasure in the grotto, every one knew that he spoke what -was authentic, what was true. As for Père +was authentic, what was true. As for Père Alain—well, priests are told to say many things by the good, wise Holy Father, who rules the world so well but has never been in Brittany, @@ -959,8 +918,8 @@ years too late.</p> <p>One day a Breton neighbor of the Marquis de Kerival questioned Daniel Darc as to -who the young man's friends were. "Nomenoë, -Gradlon-Maur, Gwenc'hlan, Taliésin,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +who the young man's friends were. "Nomenoë, +Gradlon-Maur, Gwenc'hlan, Taliésin,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> Merlin, and Oisin," was the reply. And it was true. Alan's mind was as irresistibly drawn to the Celtic world of the past as the @@ -1036,14 +995,14 @@ ride victor through Saxon London, or across the Norman plains, or with onward sword direct his army against the white walls of the Alps! How often he had been with the -great king Nomonoë, when he with his Armoricans +great king Nomonoë, when he with his Armoricans chased the Frankish wolves away from Breton soil, or had raced with Gradlon-Maur<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> from the drowning seas which overwhelmed Ys, where the king's daughter had at the same moment put her hands on the Gates of Love and Death! How often he had heard Merlin -and Taliésin speak of the secret things of the +and Taliésin speak of the secret things of the ancient wisdom, or Gwenc'hlan chant upon his wild harp, or the fugitive song of Vivien in the green woods of Broceliande, where the enchanted @@ -1114,7 +1073,7 @@ never spoke with. If ever he encountered the stern, white-haired man as he was wheeled through the garden ways or down one of the green alleys, or along the corridors of the -vast, rambling château, they passed in silence. +vast, rambling château, they passed in silence. Sometimes the invalid would look at him with the fierce, unwavering eyes of a hawk; but for the most part the icy, steel-blue eyes @@ -1168,7 +1127,7 @@ But Yann said no more, then or later.</p> back, after his first long absence from Kerival, his aunt would be more explicit with him. A vain hope, for when once more he was at the -château he found the Marquise even less +château he found the Marquise even less communicative than was her wont. Her husband was more than ever taciturn, and a gloom seemed to have descended upon the @@ -1214,7 +1173,7 @@ natural romance. This change to an unwelcome taciturnity had been noted by Alan on his home visit at Christmas. Still, he had thought little of it after his return to -Paris, for the Noël-tide had been sweetened +Paris, for the Noël-tide had been sweetened by the word given to him by Ynys.</p> <hr class="tb" /> @@ -1503,7 +1462,7 @@ of indefinable tragedy, the mystery of a destiny long ago begun and never fulfilled.</p> <p>Lost like a rock in a forest, a weather-worn,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> -ivy-grown château stood within sound, though +ivy-grown château stood within sound, though not within sight, of this tempestuous sea. All about it was the deep, sonorous echo of wind and wave, transmuted into a myriad cries @@ -1515,7 +1474,7 @@ manor-house; even in the draughty corridors an echo of the sea could be heard.</p> <p>The pathways of the forest were dank with -sodden leaves, the <i>débris</i> of autumn which +sodden leaves, the <i>débris</i> of autumn which the snows of winter had saved from the whirling gales of January. Underneath the brushwood and the lower boughs these lay in brown, @@ -1532,7 +1491,7 @@ lapping as of innumerable minute wings.</p> in a black-green darkness save where in one<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> spot the gloom was illumined into a vivid brown, because of a wandering beam of light -from a turret in the château, a man stood. +from a turret in the château, a man stood. The head was forwardly inclined, the whole figure intent as a listening animal. He and his shadow were as those flowers of darkness @@ -2305,8 +2264,8 @@ lay in a waking dream.</p> troubled by many thoughts, but most by his love, he moved slowly into one of the beech avenues which radiated from the fantastic -mediæval sun-dial at the end of the tulip -garden in front of the château.</p> +mediæval sun-dial at the end of the tulip +garden in front of the château.</p> <p>While the moon slowly lifted from branch to branch a transient stir of life came into the @@ -2328,7 +2287,7 @@ song itself.</p> boughs like a spent billow. Instinctively he turned that way, and so crossed a wide glade that opened on the cypress alley to the west -of the château.</p> +of the château.</p> <p>Just as he emerged upon this glade he thought he saw a stooping figure glide swiftly @@ -2604,7 +2563,7 @@ believed.</p> <p>But ... Annaik! What could she be doing there? How had she been able to leave -the château; when had she stolen forth; where<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> +the château; when had she stolen forth; where<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> had she wandered; whither was she going; to what end?</p> @@ -2648,7 +2607,7 @@ for herself, no, no, no ... but because she has taken you from me. Why does Ynys have you, all of you, when I have loved you all along? None of us knew any thing—none, -till last Noël. Then we knew; only, neither +till last Noël. Then we knew; only, neither you nor Ynys knew that I loved you as a soul in hell loves the memory of its earthly joy."</p> @@ -2757,7 +2716,7 @@ that his father, old Iouenn Kerbastiou, the charcoal burner, was an illegitimate brother of the late Marquis—so that Jud, or Judik, as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span> he was generally called, was a blood-relation -of the great folk at the château. Once this +of the great folk at the château. Once this had been hinted to the Marquis Tristran. It was for the first and last time. Since then, Jud Kerbastiou had become more morose @@ -2810,7 +2769,7 @@ stealthy tread was light as that of a fox. He stopped when he was within a yard of Annaik. "Annaik," he muttered hoarsely, "Annaik, it was I who was out among the beeches in -front of the château while the storm was raging. +front of the château while the storm was raging. Sure you must have known it; else, why would you come out? I love you, white<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> woman. I am only a peasant ... but I @@ -3000,7 +2959,7 @@ were in deep shadow, for the moonlight was now obscured by a league-long cloud.</p> <p>When they emerged from the scattered pines -to the seaward of the château, the sentinel +to the seaward of the château, the sentinel peacocks saw them, and began once more their harsh, barbaric screams.</p> @@ -3009,7 +2968,7 @@ walked steadily forward, speaking no word, not once looking one at the other.</p> <p>As they entered the yew-close at the end of -the old garden of the château they were as +the old garden of the château they were as shadows drowned in night. For some minutes they were invisible; though, from above, the moon shone upon their white faces and on @@ -3039,7 +2998,7 @@ Daniel Darc had once said to him laughingly: horoscope would foretell impossible things."</p> <p>In absolute silence they moved up the long -flight of stone stairs that led to the château; +flight of stone stairs that led to the château; in absolute silence, they entered by the door which old Matieu had left ajar; in silence, they passed that unconscious sleeper; in silence, @@ -3521,7 +3480,7 @@ Judik spoke in a hoarse, tired voice:</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span></p> -<p>"Let the Lady Ynys go back to the château +<p>"Let the Lady Ynys go back to the château at once. She is needed there."</p> <p>"Why, what is wrong, Judik Kerbastiou?"</p> @@ -3533,7 +3492,7 @@ toward Alan, and whispered in his ear.</p> <p>Alan looked at him with startled amaze. Then, turning toward Ynys, he asked her to -go back at once to the château.</p> +go back at once to the château.</p> <hr class="chap" /> @@ -3556,7 +3515,7 @@ Judik's strange appearance and stranger summons.</p> What is the meaning of this haunting of the forbidden home domain? And what did you mean by urging Mlle. Ynys to go -back at once to the château?"</p> +back at once to the château?"</p> <p>"Time enough later for your other questions, young sir. Meanwhile come along with @@ -3576,7 +3535,7 @@ forest, unless when the weather had dried all the ways: for he had to be wheeled in his chair, and, as Alan knew, disliked to leave the gardens or the well-kept yew and cypress -alleys near the château.</p> +alleys near the château.</p> <p>In a brief while, however, he heard voices. Judik turned, and waved to him to be wary. @@ -3696,7 +3655,7 @@ of the Marquis Tristran.</p> <p>Suddenly Kermorvan raised his voice.</p> -<p>"M. le Général, are you ready?"</p> +<p>"M. le Général, are you ready?"</p> <p>"I am ready," answered a low, clear voice.</p> @@ -3767,7 +3726,7 @@ the stranger. Still, he stood erect.</p> <p>Alan looked at the Marquis de Kerival. He was leaning back, deathly white, but with the bitter, suppressed smile which every one at the -château knew and hated.</p> +château knew and hated.</p> <p>All at once the General swayed, lunged forward, and fell prone.</p> @@ -3805,7 +3764,7 @@ fought here. You must go back at once, dear. There are reasons why you...."</p> <p>"Is my father one of the combatants? I -know he is out of the château. Tell me +know he is out of the château. Tell me quick! Is he wounded? Is he dead?"</p> <p>"No, no, darling heart! He is unhurt. @@ -3828,7 +3787,7 @@ her that I shall be with her immediately. Yes, go—go—at once."</p> <p>But by the time Ynys had moved into the -alley which led her to the château, and Alan +alley which led her to the château, and Alan had returned to the spot where he had left Judik, rapid changes had occurred.</p> @@ -3866,7 +3825,7 @@ dead man. I got the servant to write it down for me."</p> <p>Alan took the slip of paper. On it was: -"<i>M. le Général Carmichael</i>."</p> +"<i>M. le Général Carmichael</i>."</p> <hr class="chap" /> @@ -3880,7 +3839,7 @@ for me."</p> <p class="center">THE UNFOLDING OF THE SCROLL</p> -<p>When Alan reached the château he was at +<p>When Alan reached the château he was at once accosted by old Matieu.</p> <p>"Mme. la Marquise wishes to see you in @@ -4115,10 +4074,10 @@ house together."</p> I will let you see that I know more. Annaik went out of the house late. Old Matieu let her out. Shortly after that you went out of -the château. Later, you and she came upon +the château. Later, you and she came upon Judik Kerbastiou prowling about in the woods. It was more than an hour after he -left you that you returned to the château. +left you that you returned to the château. Where were you during that hour or more?"</p> <p>Alan flushed. He unfolded his arms; @@ -4392,7 +4351,7 @@ her steadily.</p> <p>"Because...."</p> <p>But here again an interruption occurred. -The portière moved back, and then the wide +The portière moved back, and then the wide doors disparted. Into the salon was wheeled a chair, in which sat the Marquis de Kerival. Behind him was his attendant; at @@ -4685,7 +4644,7 @@ rising at the thought."</p> <p>"We are both in an alien land, Ian."</p> -<p>"<i>Och is diombuan gach cas air tìr gun eòlas</i>—Fleeting +<p>"<i>Och is diombuan gach cas air tìr gun eòlas</i>—Fleeting is the foot in a strange land," said the islander, using a phrase familiar to Gaels away from the isles.</p> @@ -4698,7 +4657,7 @@ you will do. And before you go I must tell you that your father's brother Uilleam is dead, so that you have no near kin now except the son of the brother of your father, Donnacha -Bàn as he is called—or was called, for I +Bà n as he is called—or was called, for I will be hearing a year or more ago that he,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span> too, went under the wave. He would be your own age, and that close as a month or week, I @@ -4825,7 +4784,7 @@ had hurriedly put together.</p> Indeed, they met no one, till, at the end of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span> the Forest of Kerival, they emerged near the junction with the high-road at a place -called Trois Chênes. Then a woman, a +called Trois Chênes. Then a woman, a gypsy vagrant, insisted disaster would ensue if they went over her tracks that night without first doing something to avert evil. They @@ -4890,13 +4849,13 @@ same day, Lois de Kerival was laid to her rest, with none of her kith and kin to lament her; for Tristran the Silent was alone in his austere grief. Two others were there, at -whom the Curé looked askance: the rude +whom the Curé looked askance: the rude woodlander, Judik Kerbastiou, and another forest estray, a gypsy woman with a shawl over her head. The latter must have known the Marquise's charity, for the good woman wept quietly throughout the service of committal, -and, when she turned to go, the Curé +and, when she turned to go, the Curé heard a sob in her throat.</p> <p>It took but a brief while for Alan to settle @@ -5022,7 +4981,7 @@ no, not I."</p> yourself that there are almost no Carmichaels to have a feud with! There are you and your brother, and there is your cousin over at -Sgòrr-Bhan on the other side of Borosay. +Sgòrr-Bhan on the other side of Borosay. Who else is there?"</p> <p>To this the man could say nothing. Distressed,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> @@ -5071,7 +5030,7 @@ though on the south side they fall away in grassy declivities which hang a greenness over the wandering wave forever sobbing round that desolate shore. But it was not till the -Sgòrr-Dhu, a conical black rock at the southeast +Sgòrr-Dhu, a conical black rock at the southeast end of the island, was reached that the stone keep, known as Caisteal-Rhona, came in sight.</p> @@ -5622,10 +5581,10 @@ away your head?"</p> upon him.</p> <p>"Have you ever heard of <i>am Buchaille -Bàn—am Buchaille Buidhe</i>?"</p> +Bà n—am Buchaille Buidhe</i>?"</p> <p>He looked at her in amaze. <i>Am Buchaille -Bàn!</i> ... The fair-haired Herdsman, the +Bà n!</i> ... The fair-haired Herdsman, the yellow-haired Herdsman! What could she mean? In days gone by, he knew, the islanders had, in the evil time after Culloden, @@ -5861,13 +5820,13 @@ as low and strange. "I am the Herdsman."</p> That voice, was it not his own; that tone, was it not familiar in his ears? When the man spoke, he heard himself speak; sure, if -he were am Buchaille Bàn, Alan, too, was +he were am Buchaille Bà n, Alan, too, was the Herdsman—though what fantastic destiny might be his was all unknown to him.</p> <p>"Come near," said the man, and now the mocking light in his eyes was lambent as -cloud-fire—"come near, oh, Buchaille Bàn!"</p> +cloud-fire—"come near, oh, Buchaille Bà n!"</p> <p>With a swift movement Alan leapt forward, but as he leaped his foot caught in a spray @@ -5890,7 +5849,7 @@ neither man nor shadow of man, nor any thing that stirred; no, not even the dust of a bearnan-Bride, that grew on a patch of grass a yard or two within the darkness, had lost one -of its aërial pinions. He drew back, dismayed. +of its aërial pinions. He drew back, dismayed. Then, suddenly, his heart leapt again, for, beyond all question, all possible doubt, there, in the bent thyme, just where the man had @@ -6103,7 +6062,7 @@ for all the joy that lay between them.</p> <p>But she said no more upon what he had told her.</p> -<p>"I, too, Alan mo rùn, have heard a strange +<p>"I, too, Alan mo rùn, have heard a strange thing to-day. You know old Marsail Macrae? She is ill now with a slow fever, and she thinks that the shadow which she saw lying upon her @@ -6811,8 +6770,8 @@ You are for knowing, sure, that long ago Uilleam, brother of him who was father to your man, had a son? Yes, you know that, you say, and also that he was called Donnacha -Bàn? No, mo-run-geal, that is not a true -thing that you have heard, that Donnacha Bàn +Bà n? No, mo-run-geal, that is not a true +thing that you have heard, that Donnacha Bà n went under the wave years ago. He was the seventh son, and was born under the full moon; 'tis Himself will be knowing whether @@ -6841,7 +6800,7 @@ upon his brother, but spoke smoothly with him and loved to be in his company. But, to this day, no one knows for sure what happened. For there was a gloaming when Donnacha -Bàn came back alone, in his sailing +Bà n came back alone, in his sailing boat. He and Kenneth had sailed forth, he said, to shoot seals in the sea arcades to the west of Rona; but in these dark and lonely @@ -6855,19 +6814,19 @@ body again that sinks in these sea galleries. The crabs know that.</p> <p>"Well, this and much more was what Donnacha -Bàn told to his people. None believed +Bà n told to his people. None believed him; but what could any do? There was no proof; none had ever seen them enter the sea<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span> -caves together. Not that Donnacha Bàn +caves together. Not that Donnacha Bà n sought in any way to keep back those who would fain know more. Not so; he strove to help to find the body. Nevertheless, none -believed; and Kirsteen nic Dugall Mòr least +believed; and Kirsteen nic Dugall Mòr least of all. The blight of that sorrow went to her heart. She had death soon, poor thing! but before the cold grayness was upon her, she told her father, and the minister that was -there, that she knew Donnacha Bàn had +there, that she knew Donnacha Bà n had murdered his brother. One might be saying these were the wild words of a woman; but, for sure, no one said that thing upon Borosay @@ -6875,14 +6834,14 @@ or Rona, or any of these isles. When all was done, the minister told what he knew, and what he thought, to the Lord of the South Isles, and asked what was to be put upon -Donnacha Bàn. 'Exile forever,' said the +Donnacha Bà n. 'Exile forever,' said the Chief, 'or if he stays here, the doom of silence. Let no man or woman speak to him or give him food or drink; or give him shelter, or let his shadow cross his or hers.'</p> <p>"When this thing was told to Donnacha -Bàn Carmichael, he laughed at first; but as +Bà n Carmichael, he laughed at first; but as day slid over the rocks where all days fall, he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span> laughed no more. Soon he saw that the Chief's word was no empty word; and yet he @@ -6896,7 +6855,7 @@ he took wildness to be his way, and others that God put upon him the shadow of loneliness, so that he might meet sorrow there and repent. Howsoever that may be, Donnacha -Bàn came to Rona, and, by the same token, it +Bà n came to Rona, and, by the same token, it was the year of the great blight, when the potatoes and the corn came to naught, and when the fish in the sea swam away from the @@ -6906,7 +6865,7 @@ and the old man Ian, her father, who had guard of Caisteal-Rhona for him who was absent. When, once more, smoke rose from the crofts, the rumor spread that Donnacha -Bàn, the murderer, had made his home among +Bà n, the murderer, had made his home among the caves of the upper part of the isle. None knew how this rumor rose, for he was seen of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span> none. The last man who saw him—and that @@ -6921,7 +6880,7 @@ was lifting itself out of the sea. Padruic did not know who the man was. The shepherd had few wits, poor man! and he had known, or remembered, little about the story of Donnacha -Bàn Carmichael, so, when he spoke to +Bà n Carmichael, so, when he spoke to the man, it was as to a stranger. The man looked at him and said:</p> @@ -6955,9 +6914,9 @@ shadowy stranger; so that all upon Rona felt sure that Padruic had beheld no more than a vision. There were some who thought that he had seen the ghost of the outlaw Donnacha -Bàn; and mayhap one or two who wondered if +Bà n; and mayhap one or two who wondered if the stranger that had said he was a prophet -was not Donnacha Bàn himself, with a madness +was not Donnacha Bà n himself, with a madness come upon him; but at last these rumors went out to sea upon the wind, and men forgot. But, and it was months and months @@ -6984,7 +6943,7 @@ Prophet who was waiting there for the birth of a king.</p> <p>"And that is how there came about the echo -of the thought, that Donnacha Bàn had at +of the thought, that Donnacha Bà n had at last, after his madness, gone under the green wave and was dead. For all that, in the months which followed, more than one man @@ -6996,11 +6955,11 @@ a lonely isle. More than one of the old people on Rona and Borosay remembered that <i>sgeul</i> out of the <i>seanachas</i> that the tale-tellers<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span> knew. There were some who said that Donnacha -Bàn had never been drowned at all, and +Bà n had never been drowned at all, and that he was this Prophet, this Herdsman. Others would not have that saying at all, but believed that the mysterious herdsman was -indeed Am Buchaille Bàn, the Fair-haired +indeed Am Buchaille Bà n, the Fair-haired Shepherd, who had come again to redeem the people out of their sorrow. There were even those who said that the Herdsman who @@ -7173,11 +7132,11 @@ ascertained this, at least: that their fear and aversion, when he first came, had been occasioned by the startling likeness between him and the mysterious being whom they called -Am Buchaille Bàn. On Borosay, he was told, +Am Buchaille Bà n. On Borosay, he was told, the fishermen believed that the <i>aonaran nan chreag</i>, the recluse of the rocks, as commonly they spoke of him, was no other than Donnacha -Bàn Carmichael, survived there through +Bà n Carmichael, survived there through these many years, and long since mad with his loneliness and because of the burden of his crime. It was with keen surprise that @@ -7189,7 +7148,7 @@ the root of the fear and aversion which had met him upon his arrival. Almost from the moment he had landed in Borosay, the rumor had spread that he was indeed no other than -Donnacha Bàn, and that he had chosen this +Donnacha Bà n, and that he had chosen this way, now both his father and Alasdair Carmichael were dead, to return to his own place. So like was Alan to the outlaw who @@ -7202,7 +7161,7 @@ had consented to speak of what she had seen, the man she described bore no resemblance to himself. From one thing and another, he came at last to the belief that he had really -seen Donnacha Bàn, his cousin; but that +seen Donnacha Bà n, his cousin; but that the vision of Ynys's mind was born of her imagination, stimulated by all the tragedy and strange vicissitudes she had known, and @@ -7211,14 +7170,14 @@ Morag MacNeill.</p> <p>By this time, too, the islanders had come to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span> see that Alan MacAlasdair was certainly not -Donnacha Bàn. Even the startling likeness +Donnacha Bà n. Even the startling likeness no longer betrayed them in this way. The ministers and the priests laughed at the whole story and everywhere discouraged the idea -that Donnacha Bàn could still be among the +that Donnacha Bà n could still be among the living. But for the unfortunate superstition that to meet the Herdsman, whether the lost -soul of Donnacha Bàn or indeed the strange +soul of Donnacha Bà n or indeed the strange phantom of the hills of which the old legends spoke, was to meet inevitable disaster; but for this, the islanders might have been persuaded @@ -7238,7 +7197,7 @@ with the birth of the child this fantastic dream life would go. Whoever the mysterious<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span> Herdsman was—if he indeed existed at all except in the imaginations of those who -spoke of him either as the Buchaille Bàn, or +spoke of him either as the Buchaille Bà n, or as the <i>aonaran nan chreag</i>—Alan believed that at last he had passed away. None saw him now: and even Morag MacNeill, who @@ -7355,7 +7314,7 @@ but, though her lips moved, she said nothing.</p> <p>"Tell me, dear," he urged again, "who is it you expect to see or hear?"</p> -<p>"<i>Am Buchaille Bàn</i>," she answered, "the +<p>"<i>Am Buchaille Bà n</i>," she answered, "the Herdsman."</p> <p>For a moment he hesitated. Then, taking @@ -7443,18 +7402,18 @@ a spirit, Ynys? What proof have you of this? If you or I have seen any one at all, be sure it is a mortal man and no spirit; nay, I know who it must be, if any one it is, for throughout -the isles men say that Donnacha Bàn, +the isles men say that Donnacha Bà n, the son of the brother of my father, was an outlaw here, and has lived long among the caves."</p> <p>"This man," she said quietly, "is not -Donnacha Bàn, but the Prophet of whom the +Donnacha Bà n, but the Prophet of whom the people speak. He himself has told me this thing. Yesterday I was here, and he bade me come again. He spoke out of the shadow that is about the Altar, though I saw him -not. I asked him if he were Donnacha Bàn, +not. I asked him if he were Donnacha Bà n, and he said 'No.' I asked him if he were <i>Am Faidh</i>, and he said 'Yes.' I asked him if he were indeed an immortal spirit, and @@ -7538,9 +7497,9 @@ him with large, wondering eyes.</p> <p>"Ynys, darling, do you not understand what it is that I say? This man, that they -call the Buchaille Bàn—this man whom you +call the Buchaille Bà n—this man whom you believe to be the Herdsman of the old legend—is -no other than Donnacha Bàn, he who +no other than Donnacha Bà n, he who years and years ago slew his brother and has been an exile ever since on this lonely island. How could he, then, a man as I am, though @@ -7670,8 +7629,8 @@ For one thing, they no more avoided her and Alan. With the death of the man who had so long sustained a mysterious existence upon Rona, their superstitious aversion went; -they ceased to speak of <i>Am Buchaille Bàn</i> -and, whether Donnacha Bàn had found on +they ceased to speak of <i>Am Buchaille Bà n</i> +and, whether Donnacha Bà n had found on Rona one of the hidden ways to heaven or had only dallied upon one of the byways to hell, it was commonly held that he had paid @@ -7693,7 +7652,7 @@ linked to a disastrous fate.</p> <p>True, there were still some of the isle folk on Borosay and Barra who maintained that the man who had been found in the sea cave, -whether Donnacha Bàn or some other, had +whether Donnacha Bà n or some other, had nothing to do with the mysterious Herdsman, whose advent, indeed, had long been anticipated by a section of the older inhabitants. @@ -7750,7 +7709,7 @@ news came that affected them strangely.</p> they left, but one windy March day a boat from Borosay put into the haven with letters from Alan's agents in Edinburgh. Among them was -one from the Abbé Cæsar de La Bruyère, from +one from the Abbé Cæsar de La Bruyère, from Kerloek. From this Alan learned strange news.</p> <hr class="tb" /> @@ -7822,7 +7781,7 @@ of Kerival.</p> <p>But as the autumn waned, rumors became more explicit. Strange things were said of -Annaik de Kerival. At last the anxious Curé +Annaik de Kerival. At last the anxious Curé of Ploumaliou took it upon himself to assure all who spoke to him about the Lady of Kerival that he had good reason to believe she was @@ -7837,8 +7796,8 @@ his wife. She was going away for a time, she said. She went, and from that day was not seen again.</p> -<p>Then came, in the Abbé Cæsar de La -Bruyère's letter, the strangest part of the +<p>Then came, in the Abbé Cæsar de La +Bruyère's letter, the strangest part of the mystery.</p> <p>Annaik, ever since the departure of Alan @@ -7848,7 +7807,7 @@ had been suddenly aroused. For the green woods and the forest ways she suffered an intolerable nostalgia. But over and above this was another reason. It seemed, said the -Abbé Cæsar, that she must have returned the +Abbé Cæsar, that she must have returned the rude love of Judik Kerbastiou. However this might be, she lived with him for days at a time, and he himself had a copy of their marriage certificate @@ -7984,9 +7943,9 @@ in the maze had been found.</p> <p>By their own wish the home-coming was so private that none knew of it save the doctor, -the Curé, the lawyer who accompanied them +the Curé, the lawyer who accompanied them from Ploumaliou, and the old gardener and -his wife. As they neared the château from +his wife. As they neared the château from the north, Alan and Ynys alighted from the dishevelled carriage which was the sole vehicle of which Ploumaliou could boast. @@ -8059,7 +8018,7 @@ the woman who had loved him.</p> <p>Through some wayward impulse Ynys abruptly asked him to go with her through the cypress alley, so that they should approach -the château from the forest.</p> +the château from the forest.</p> <p>Silently, and with downcast eyes, he walked by her side, his hand still in hers. But his @@ -8394,7 +8353,7 @@ planets he found assurances which Faith had not given him. In the vast, majestic order of that nocturnal march, that diurnal retreat, he had learned the law of the whirling leaf and -the falling star; of the slow, æon-delayed +the falling star; of the slow, æon-delayed comet and of the slower wane of solar fires. Looking with visionary eyes into that congregation of stars, he realized, not the littleness @@ -8437,383 +8396,6 @@ except in obvious cases of typographical errors. by Mr. Alexander Carmichael of South Uist.</p></div> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Green Fire, by Fiona Macleod - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREEN FIRE *** - -***** This file should be named 44091-h.htm or 44091-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/0/9/44091/ - -Produced by Les Galloway, sp1nd and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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