With a stifled scream she darted to the door, and half tumbled
down the stair in an agony of fear.
"What gars ye mak sic a din i' the hoose o' the Sawbath nicht?"
screamed Mrs Bruce.
But little did Annie feel the reproof. And as little did she know that
the dreaded rats had this time been the messengers of God to drive her
from a path in which lies madness.
She was forced at length to go to bed, where God made her sleep and
forget him, and the rats did not come near her again that night.
Curly and Alec had been in the chapel too, but they were not of a
temperament to be disturbed by Mr Brown's discourse.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Little as Murdoch Malison knew of the worlds of thought and
feeling--Annie's among the rest--which lay within those young faces and
forms assembled the next day as usual, he knew almost as little of the
mysteries that lay within himself.
Annie was haunted all day with the thought of the wrath of God. When
she forgot it for a moment, it would return again with a sting of
actual physical pain, which seemed to pierce her heart. Before school
was over she had made up her mind what to do.
And before school was over Malison's own deed had opened his own eyes,
had broken through the crust that lay between him and the vision of his
own character.
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