Chapter 16 AN APPARITION.

"And there will be auld Geordie Tanner,

Who coft a young wife wi' his gowd."

JOANNA BAILLIE.

"Mamma," quoth Leoline, "I thought a woman must not marry her grandfather. And she called him the patriarch of her clan."

"He is a cross old man," added Hubert. "He said children ought not to be allowed on the esplanade, because he got into the