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r, soughing like a willow-wand. Once, twice, thrice--it rose and fell.
"And the sound that ensued was like the beating of a sack of meal.
"'I'll learn you to burn the Bible!' cried Anton, as he still followed. His arm rose and fell steadily while John Gib continued to run as if the dogs were after him. The great hulk cried out with the intolerable pain of the blows.
"'I'll mak' ye Sweet Singers a', by my faith! I'll score ilka point o' your paper screed on your back, my man--Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Pasch, Beltan, and Yule!'
"At the Yule stroke John Gib fell into a moss-hole. We could not easily see what followed then. But the grievous cudgel steadfastly rose and fell like the flail of a man that threshes corn in a barn, and a howling and roaring that was aught but sweet singing came to us over the moor.
"Presently Anton returned, striding back to where I sat upon David Jamie his back.
"'Rise!' he said. And that was all he said.
"'David, lad, do ye renounce John Gib and all his ways?'
"The limber-limbed student looked doubtful, but the sight of the cudgel and the distant sound of the sweet singing of Muckle John decided him.
"'Ay,' he said. 'I am content to renounce them and him.'
"'See ye and stick to it then!' said Anton, and went after Walter Ker and John Young, who stood together as though they had gotten a dead stroke.
"'Ye saw visions, did ye?' he said. 'See ye if this be a vision?'
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