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Rh coach all day yesterday.” Both were greatly disgusted to think that they had lost so much valuable time, but they made up for it by a day of most enjoyable converse, Just as they were nearing Oban at night, Dr. Macleod exclaimed, “By the way, I had a lady put under my charge this morning, with the request that I would see after her a little, and I have never thought of her all day. I must look her up.” Mr. Carter writes of this interview, “He was brimful of Celtic lore, and gave me many pictures of Highland life.” They had met before and become well acquainted in New York, a short time after the Disruption, when Dr. Macleod came into the store with letters of introduction. On being asked if he was a Free Churchman, he replied, “No, I’m afraid you will think I am a black sheep.” But Mr. Carter, though greatly interested in the Free Church, knew no narrow lines in his friendships. Strong in his own convictions, he always respected those of others, and saw very clearly the wide ground on which all Christians could meet.

While in Edinburgh Mr. Carter had much pleasant intercourse with Principal Cunningham, and while in London with Dr. James Hamilton. Much of his enjoyment in all his journeys to Europe arose from association with men with whom he had long held correspondence. In Kelso he again met Mrs. Duncan, who had visited his house in New York, and whose Memorial of her daughter, Mary Lundie Duncan, he had published, as well as several other of her books.

Mrs. Duncan’s first husband had been the Rev. Dr. Lundie, a distinguished clergyman of Kelso. After his death she had married the Rev. Dr. Duncan, while her daughter, Mary Lundie, married his son, also a clergyman. Another daughter married the Rev. Horatius