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+                  A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL
+
+                       by Ian Maclaren
+
+
+                         Book II.
+
+                    THROUGH THE FLOOD
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+It is with great good will that I write this short preface to the
+edition of "A Doctor of the Old School" (which has been illustrated by
+Mr. Gordon after an admirable and understanding fashion) because there
+are two things that I should like to say to my readers, being also my
+friends.
+
+One, is to answer a question that has been often and fairly asked. Was
+there ever any doctor so self-forgetful and so utterly Christian as
+William MacLure? To which I am proud to reply, on my conscience: Not one
+man, but many in Scotland and in the South country. I will dare prophecy
+also across the sea.
+
+It has been one man's good fortune to know four country doctors, not one
+of whom was without his faults--Weelum was not perfect--but who, each
+one, might have sat for my hero. Three are now resting from their
+labors, and the fourth, if he ever should see these lines, would never
+identify himself.
+
+Then I desire to thank my readers, and chiefly the medical profession
+for the reception given to the Doctor of Drumtochty.
+
+For many years I have desired to pay some tribute to a class whose
+service to the community was known to every countryman, but after the
+tale had gone forth my heart failed. For it might have been despised
+for the little grace of letters in the style and because of the outward
+roughness of the man. But neither his biographer nor his circumstances
+have been able to obscure MacLure who has himself won all honest hearts,
+and received afresh the recognition of his more distinguished brethren.
+From all parts of the English-speaking world letters have come in
+commendation of Weelum MacLure, and many were from doctors who had
+received new courage. It is surely more honor than a new writer could
+ever have deserved to receive the approbation of a profession whose
+charity puts us all to shame.
+
+May I take this first opportunity to declare how deeply my heart has
+been touched by the favor shown to a simple book by the American people,
+and to express my hope that one day it may be given me to see you face
+to face.
+
+IAN MACLAREN. Liverpool, Oct. 4, 1895.
+
+
+
+
+
+                      THROUGH THE FLOOD.
+
+
+II
+
+THROUGH THE FLOOD
+
+
+Doctor MacLure did not lead a solemn procession from the sick bed to
+the dining-room, and give his opinion from the hearthrug with an air of
+wisdom bordering on the supernatural, because neither the Drumtochty
+houses nor his manners were on that large scale. He was accustomed to
+deliver himself in the yard, and to conclude his directions with one
+foot in the stirrup; but when he left the room where the life of Annie
+Mitchell was ebbing slowly away, our doctor said not one word, and at
+the sight of his face her husband's heart was troubled.
+
+He was a dull man, Tammas, who could not read the meaning of a sign, and
+labored under a perpetual disability of speech; but love was eyes to him
+that day, and a mouth.
+
+"Is't as bad as yir lookin', doctor? tell's the truth; wull Annie no
+come through?" and Tammas looked MacLure straight in the face, who never
+flinched his duty or said smooth things.
+
+"A' wud gie onything tae say Annie hes a chance, but a' daurna; a' doot
+yir gaein' tae lose her, Tammas."
+
+MacLure was in the saddle, and as he gave his judgment, he laid his hand
+on Tammas's shoulder with one of the rare caresses that pass between
+men.
+
+[Illustration: A' DOOT YIR GAEIN' TAE LOSE HER, TAMMAS."]
+
+"It's a sair business, but ye 'ill play the  man and no vex Annie;
+she 'ill dae her best, a'll warrant."
+
+"An' a'll dae mine," and Tammas gave MacLure's hand a grip that would
+have crushed the bones of a weakling. Drumtochty felt in such moments
+the brotherliness of this rough-looking man, and loved him.
+
+Tammas hid his face in Jess's mane, who looked round with sorrow in her
+beautiful eyes, for she had seen many tragedies, and in this silent
+sympathy the stricken man drank his cup, drop by drop.
+
+"A' wesna prepared for this, for a' aye thocht she wud live the
+langest.... She's younger than me by ten years, and never wes ill....
+We've been mairit twal year laist Martinmas, but it's juist like a year
+the day... A' wes never worthy o' her, the bonniest, snoddest (neatest),
+kindliest lass in the Glen.... A' never cud mak oot hoo she ever lookit
+at me, 'at hesna hed ae word tae say aboot her till it's ower late....
+She didna cuist up tae me that a' wesna worthy o' her, no her, but aye
+she said, 'Yir ma ain gudeman, and nane cud be kinder tae me.' ... An'
+a' wes minded tae be kind, but a' see noo mony little trokes a' micht
+hae dune for her, and noo the time is bye.... Naebody kens hoo patient
+she wes wi' me, and aye made the best o 'me, an' never pit me tae shame
+afore the fouk.... An' we never hed ae cross word, no ane in twal
+year.... We were mair nor man and wife, we were sweethearts a' the
+time.... Oh, ma bonnie lass, what 'ill the bairnies an' me dae withoot
+ye, Annie?"
+
+[Illustration: "THE BONNIEST, SNODDEST, KINDLIEST LASS IN THE GLEN" ]
+
+The winter night was falling fast, the snow lay deep upon the ground,
+and the merciless north wind moaned through the close as Tammas wrestled
+with his sorrow dry-eyed, for tears were denied Drumtochty men. Neither
+the doctor nor Jess moved hand or  foot, but their hearts were with
+their fellow creature, and at length the doctor made a sign to Marget
+Howe, who had come out in search of Tammas, and now stood by his side.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Dinna mourn tae the brakin' o' yir hert, Tammas," she said, "as if
+Annie an' you hed never luved. Neither death nor time can pairt them
+that luve; there's naethin' in a' the warld sae strong as luve. If Annie
+gaes frae the sichot' yir een she 'ill come the nearer tae yir hert.
+She wants tae see ye, and tae hear ye say that ye 'ill never forget her
+nicht nor day till ye meet in the land where there's nae pairtin'. Oh,
+a' ken what a'm saying', for it's five year noo sin George gied awa,
+an' he's mair wi' me noo than when he wes in Edinboro' and I was in
+Drumtochty."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Thank ye kindly, Marget; thae are gude words and true, an' ye hev the
+richt tae say them; but a' canna dae without seem' Annie comin' tae meet
+me in the gloamin', an' gaein' in an' oot the hoose, an' hearin' her ca'
+me by ma name, an' a'll no can tell her that a'luve her when there's nae
+Annie in the hoose.
+
+"Can naethin' be dune, doctor? Ye savit Flora Cammil, and young
+Burnbrae, an' yon shepherd's wife Dunleith wy, an' we were a sae prood
+o' ye, an' pleased tae think that ye hed keepit deith frae anither hame.
+Can ye no think o' somethin' tae help Annie, and gie her back tae her
+man and bairnies?" and Tammas searched the doctor's face in the cold,
+weird light.
+
+"There's nae pooer on heaven or airth like luve," Marget said to me
+afterwards; it maks the weak strong and the dumb tae speak. Oor herts
+were as water afore Tammas's words, an' a' saw the doctor shake in his
+saddle. A' never kent till that meenut hoo he hed a share in a'body's
+grief, an' carried the heaviest wecht o' a' the Glen. A' peetied him wi'
+Tammas lookin' at him sae wistfully, as if he hed the keys o' life an'
+deith in his hands. But he wes honest, and wudna hold oot a false houp
+tae deceive a sore hert or win escape for himsel'."
+
+"Ye needna plead wi' me, Tammas, to dae the best a' can for yir wife.
+Man, a' kent her lang afore ye ever luved her; a' brocht her intae the
+warld, and a' saw her through the fever when she wes a bit lassikie;
+a' closed her mither's een, and it was me hed tae tell her she wes an
+orphan, an' nae man wes better pleased when she got a gude husband, and
+a' helpit her wi' her fower bairns. A've naither wife nor bairns o' ma
+own, an' a' coont a' the fouk o' the Glen ma family. Div ye think a'
+wudna save Annie if I cud? If there wes a man in Muirtown 'at cud dae
+mair for her, a'd have him this verra nicht, but a' the doctors in
+Perthshire are helpless for this tribble.
+
+"Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a' tell ye a' wud lay doon
+this auld worn-oot ruckle o' a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith
+sittin' at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an' canty
+again; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be."
+
+"When a' lookit at the doctor's face," Marget said, "a' thocht him the
+winsomest man a' ever saw. He was transfigured that nicht, for a'm
+judging there's nae transfiguration like luve."
+
+"It's God's wull an' maun be borne, but it's a sair wull for me, an' a'm
+no ungratefu' tae you, doctor, for a' ye've dune and what ye said the
+nicht," and Tammas went back to sit with Annie for the last time.
+
+Jess picked her way through the deep snow to the main road, with a skill
+that came of long experience, and the doctor held converse with her
+according to his wont.
+
+"Eh, Jess wumman, yon wes the hardest wark a' hae tae face, and a' wud
+raither hae ta'en ma chance o' anither row in a Glen Urtach drift than
+tell Tammas Mitchell his wife wes deein'.
+
+"A' said she cudna be cured, and it wes true, for there's juist ae man
+in the land fit for't, and they micht as weel try tae get the mune oot
+o' heaven. Sae a' said naethin' tae vex Tammas's hert, for it's heavy
+eneuch withoot regrets.
+
+"But it's hard, Jess, that money wull buy life after a', an' if Annie
+wes a duchess her man wudna lose her; but bein' only a puir cottar's
+wife, she maun dee afore the week's oot.
+
+"Gin we hed him the morn there's little doot she would be saved, for he
+hesna lost mair than five per cent, o' his cases, and they 'ill be puir
+toon's craturs, no strappin women like Annie.
+
+[Illustration: "IT'S OOT O' THE QUESTION, JESS, SAE HURRY UP"]
+
+"It's oot o' the question, Jess, sae hurry up, lass, for we've hed a
+heavy day. But it wud be the grandest thing that was ever dune in the
+Glen in oor time if it could be managed by hook or crook.
+
+"We 'ill gang and see Drumsheugh, Jess; he's anither man sin' Geordie
+Hoo's deith, and he wes aye kinder than fouk kent;" and the doctor
+passed at a gallop through the village, whose lights shone across the
+white frost-bound road.
+
+"Come in by, doctor; a' heard ye on the road; ye 'ill hae been at Tammas
+Mitchell's; hoo's the gudewife? a' doot she's sober."
+
+"Annie's deein', Drumsheugh, an' Tammas is like tae brak his hert."
+
+"That's no lichtsome, doctor, no lichtsome ava, for a' dinna ken ony
+man in Drumtochty sae bund up in his wife as Tammas, and there's no
+a bonnier wumman o' her age crosses our kirk door than Annie, nor a
+cleverer at her wark. Man, ye 'ill need tae pit yir brains in steep. Is
+she clean beyond ye?"
+
+"Beyond me and every ither in the land but ane, and it wud cost a
+hundred guineas tae bring him tae Drumtochty."
+
+[Illustration: ]
+
+"Certes, he's no blate; it's a fell chairge for a short day's work; but
+hundred or no hundred we'll hae him, an' no let Annie gang, and her no
+half her years."
+
+"Are ye meanin' it, Drumsheugh?" and MacLure turned white below the tan.
+"William MacLure," said Drumsheugh, in one of the few confidences that
+ever broke the Drumtochty reserve, "a'm a lonely man, wi' naebody o' ma
+ain blude tae care for me livin', or tae lift me intae ma coffin when
+a'm deid.
+
+"A' fecht awa at Muirtown market for an extra pound on a beast, or a
+shillin' on the quarter o' barley, an' what's the gude o't? Burnbrae
+gaes aff tae get a goon for his wife or a buke for his college laddie,
+an' Lachlan Campbell 'ill no leave the place noo without a ribbon for
+Flora.
+
+"Ilka man in the Klldrummie train has some bit fairin' his pooch for the
+fouk at hame that he's bocht wi' the siller he won.
+
+"But there's naebody tae be lookin' oot for me, an' comin' doon the road
+tae meet me, and daffin' (joking) wi' me about their fairing, or feeling
+ma pockets. Ou ay, a've seen it a' at ither hooses, though they tried
+tae hide it frae me for fear a' wud lauch at them. Me lauch, wi' ma
+cauld, empty hame!
+
+"Yir the only man kens, Weelum, that I aince luved the noblest wumman in
+the glen or onywhere, an' a' luve her still, but wi' anither luve noo.
+
+"She had given her heart tae anither, or a've thocht a' micht hae
+won her, though nae man be worthy o' sic a gift. Ma hert turned tae
+bitterness, but that passed awa beside the brier bush whar George Hoo
+lay yon sad simmer time. Some day a'll tell ye ma story, Weelum, for you
+an' me are auld freends, and will be till we dee."
+
+MacLure felt beneath the table for Drumsheugh's hand, but neither man
+looked at the other.
+
+"Weel, a' we can dae noo, Weelum, gin we haena mickle brichtness in oor
+ain names, is tae keep the licht frae gaein' oot in anither hoose. Write
+the telegram, man, and Sandy  'ill send it aff frae Kildrummie this
+verra nicht, and ye 'ill hae yir man the morn."
+
+[Illustration: "THE EAST HAD COME TO MEET THE WEST"]
+
+"Yir the man a' coonted ye, Drumsheugh, but ye 'ill grant me ae favor.
+Ye 'ill lat me pay the half, bit by bit--a' ken yir wullin' tae dae't
+a'--but a' haena mony pleasures, an' a' wud like tae hae ma ain share in
+savin' Annie's life."
+
+Next morning a figure received Sir George on the Kildrummie platform,
+whom that famous surgeon took for a gillie, but who introduced himself
+as "MacLure of Drumtochty." It seemed as if the East had come to meet
+the West when these two stood together, the one in travelling furs,
+handsome and distinguished, with his strong, cultured face and carriage
+of authority, a characteristic type of his profession; and the other
+more marvellously dressed than ever, for Drumsheugh's topcoat had been
+forced upon him for the occasion, his face and neck one redness with the
+bitter cold; rough and ungainly, yet not without some signs of power in
+his eye and voice, the most heroic type of his noble profession. MacLure
+compassed the precious arrival with observances till he was securely
+seated in Drumsheugh's dog cart--a vehicle that lent itself to
+history--with two full-sized plaids added to his equipment--Drumsheugh
+and Hillocks had both been requisitioned--and MacLure wrapped another
+plaid round a leather case, which was placed below the seat with such
+reverence as might be given to the Queen's regalia. Peter attended their
+departure full of interest, and as soon as they were in the fir woods
+MacLure explained that it would be an eventful journey.
+
+"It's a richt in here, for the wind disna get at the snaw, but the
+drifts are deep in the Glen, and th'ill be some engineerin' afore we get
+tae oor destination."
+
+Four times they left the road and took their way over fields, twice they
+forced a passage through a slap in a dyke, thrice they used gaps in the
+paling which MacLure had made on his downward journey.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"A' seleckit the road this mornin', an' a' ken the depth tae an inch; we
+'ill get through this steadin' here tae the main road, but oor worst job
+'ill be crossin' the Tochty.
+
+"Ye see the bridge hes been shaken wi' this winter's flood, and we
+daurna venture on it, sae we hev tae ford, and the snaw's been
+melting up Urtach way. There's nae doot the water's gey big, and it's
+threatenin' tae rise, but we 'ill win through wi' a warstle.
+
+"It micht be safer tae lift the instruments oot o' reach o' the water;
+wud ye mind haddin' them on yir knee till we're ower, an' keep firm in
+yir seat in case we come on a stane in the bed o' the river."
+
+By this time they had come to the edge, and it was not a cheering sight.
+The Tochty had spread out over the meadows, and while they waited they
+could see it cover another two inches on the trunk of a tree. There are
+summer floods, when the water is brown and flecked with foam, but this
+was a winter flood, which is black and sullen, and runs in the centre
+with a strong, fierce, silent current. Upon the opposite side
+Hillocks stood to give directions by word and hand, as the ford was
+on his land, and none knew the Tochty better in all its ways.
+
+[Illustration: "THEY PASSED THROUGH THE SHALLOW WATER WITHOUT MISHAP"]
+
+They passed through the shallow water without mishap, save when the
+wheel struck a hidden stone or fell suddenly into a rut; but when they
+neared the body of the river MacLure halted, to give Jess a minute's
+breathing.
+
+"It 'ill tak ye a' yir time, lass, an' a' wud raither be on yir back;
+but ye never failed me yet, and a wumman's life is hangin' on the
+crossin'."
+
+With the first plunge into the bed of the stream the water rose to the
+axles, and then it crept up to the shafts, so that the surgeon could
+feel it lapping in about his feet, while the dogcart began to quiver,
+and it seemed as if it were to be carried away. Sir George was as brave
+as most men, but he had never forded a Highland river in flood, and the
+mass of black water racing past beneath, before, behind him, affected
+his imagination and shook his nerves. He rose from his seat and ordered
+MacLure to turn back, declaring that he would be condemned utterly and
+eternally if he allowed himself to be drowned for any person.
+
+"Sit doon," thundered MacLure; "condemned ye will be suner or later gin
+ye shirk yir duty, but through the water ye gang the day."
+
+Both men spoke much more strongly and shortly, but this is what they
+intended to say, and it was MacLure that prevailed.
+
+Jess trailed her feet along the ground with cunning art, and held her
+shoulder against the stream; MacLure leant forward in his seat, a rein
+in each hand, and his eyes fixed on Hillocks, who was now standing up to
+the waist in the water, shouting directions and cheering on horse and
+driver.
+
+"Haud tae the richt, doctor; there's a hole yonder. Keep oot o't for ony
+sake. 
+
+[Illustration: "A HEAP OF SPEECHLESS MISERY BY THE KITCHEN FIRE."]
+
+That's  heap of speechless misery by the kitchen fire, and carried
+him off to the barn, and spread some corn on the threshing floor and
+thrust a flail into his hands.
+
+"Noo we've tae begin, an' we 'ill no be dune for an' oor, and ye've tae
+lay on withoot stoppin' till a' come for ye, an' a'll shut the door tae
+haud in the noise, an' keep yir dog beside ye, for there maunna be a
+cheep aboot the hoose for Annie's sake."
+
+"A'll dae onything ye want me, but if--if--"
+
+"A'll come for ye, Tammas, gin there be danger; but what are ye feared
+for wi' the Queen's ain surgeon here?"
+
+Fifty minutes did the flail rise and fall, save twice, when Tammas crept
+to the door and listened, the dog lifting his head and whining.
+
+It seemed twelve hours instead of one when the door swung back, and
+MacLure filled the  doorway, preceded by a great burst of light, for the
+sun had arisen on the snow.
+
+[Illustration: "MA AIN DEAR MAN"]
+
+His face was as tidings of great joy, and Elspeth told me that there was
+nothing like it to be seen that afternoon for glory, save the sun itself
+in the heavens.
+
+"A' never saw the marrow o't, Tammas, an' a'll never see the like again;
+it's a' ower, man, withoot a hitch frae beginnin' tae end, and she's
+fa'in' asleep as fine as ye like."
+
+"Dis he think Annie ... 'ill live?"
+
+"Of coorse he dis, and be aboot the hoose inside a month; that's the gud
+o' bein' a clean-bluided, weel-livin'----"
+
+"Preserve ye, man, what's wrang wi' ye? it's a mercy a' keppit ye, or we
+wud hev hed anither job for Sir George.
+
+"Ye're a richt noo; sit doon on the strae. A'll come back in a whilie,
+an' ye i'll see Annie juist for a meenut, but ye maunna say a word."
+Marget took him in and let him kneel by Annie's bedside.
+
+He said nothing then or afterwards, for speech came only once in his
+lifetime to Tammas, but Annie whispered, "Ma ain dear man."
+
+When the doctor placed the precious bag beside Sir George in our
+solitary first next morning, he laid a cheque beside it and was about to
+leave.
+
+"No, no," said the great man. "Mrs. Macfayden and I were on the gossip
+last night, and I know the whole story about you and your friend.
+
+"You have some right to call me a coward, but I'll never let you count
+me a mean, miserly rascal," and the cheque with Drumsheugh's painful
+writing fell in fifty pieces on the floor.
+
+[Illustration: "I'M PROUD TO HAVE MET YOU"]
+
+As the train began to move, a voice from the first called so that all
+the station heard.  "Give's another shake of your hand, MacLure; I'm
+proud to have met you; you are an honor to our profession. Mind the
+antiseptic dressings."
+
+It was market day, but only Jamie Soutar and Hillocks had ventured down.
+
+"Did ye hear yon, Hillocks? hoo dae ye feel? A'll no deny a'm lifted."
+
+Halfway to the Junction Hillocks had recovered, and began to grasp the
+situation.
+
+"Tell's what he said. A' wud like to hae it exact for Drumsheugh."
+
+"Thae's the eedentical words, an' they're true; there's no a man in
+Drumtochty disna ken that, except ane."
+
+"An' wha's thar, Jamie?"
+
+"It's Weelum MacLure himsel. Man, a've often girned that he sud fecht
+awa for us a', and maybe dee before he kent that he hed githered mair
+luve than ony man in the Glen.
+
+"'A'm prood tae hae met ye', says Sir George, an' him the greatest
+doctor in the land. 'Yir an honor tae oor profession.'
+
+"Hillocks, a' wudna hae missed it for twenty notes," said James Soutar,
+cynic-in-ordinary to the parish of Drumtochty.
+
+
+
+
+
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