It's no a mere
veesitin o' the sins o' the fathers upo' the bairns, but a provision to
haud the bairns aff o' the like, and to shame the fathers o' them. Eh, but
sic maun be sair affrontit wi' themsels, that disgrace at ance the wife
that should hae been and the bairn that shouldna! Eh, the puir bairnie that
has sic a father! But he has anither as weel--a richt gran' father to rin
til!--The ae thing," the soutar went on, "that you and me, Maggie, has to
do, is never to lat the bairn ken the miss o' father or mother, and sae
lead him to the ae Father, the only real and true ane.--There he's wailin,
the bonny wee man!"
Maggie ran to quiet her little one, but soon returned, and sitting down
again beside her father, asked him for a piece of work.
All this time, through his own cowardly indifference, the would-be-grand
preacher, James Blatherwick, knew nothing of the fact that, somewhere in
the world, without father or mother, lived a silent witness against him.
CHAPTER VII
Isy had contrived to postpone her return to her aunt until James was gone;
for she dreaded being in the house with him lest anything should lead to
the discovery of the relation between them.
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