"Ye will forgive me, David," said she, "for the remark I hae dune ye great injustice; for how is it possible to conceive that sae guid a man could be sae nearly related to a monster? But ye hae to explain to me the change o" name. How hae you and your brither different surnames?"
"_Because_," said the dying man, turning round, and staring with lackl.u.s.tre eyes broadly in the face of his wife--"_because I am Christiecleek!_"