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"As Thou hast found me ready to Thy call, Which stationed me to watch the outer wall, And, quitting joys and hopes that once were mine, To pace with patient steps this narrow line Oh! may it be that, coming soon or late, Thou still shalt find Thy soldier at the gate, Who then may follow Thee till sight needs not to prove, And faith will be dissolved in knowledge of Thy love. " G. J. Romanes.
It was in July, while Macneillie was spending his summer holiday at Callander, that his mother's sudden death made him more than ever alone in the world. They had passed together a particularly happy fortnight, and though he could see that she was gradually getting more infirm she had never known a day's illness, and her loss came as a terrible shock to him.