Lady Victoria Campbell

28 THE HOUSEHOLD FKIENDS
cannot die out of Scotland." " Only as far as the
train can take you," the Duke said, and accompanied
by the doctor living then with the family, and all
that could ease the terrible journey, she was carried
out of Argyll Lodge. Her last look and her last word
were for her master, as he stood to see the servant
and friend of his lifetime carried from his door.
Lady Emma McNeill, the Duke's sister, had
found a suitable house in Edinburgh for her last days.
It stood in Canaan Lane, looking out on the Braid
hills, and there on July 5th, 1875, tended by Lady
Emma and those she loved, the faithful servant
passed to her rest.
The children of the Argyll family felt themselves
bereft not only of one whose door stood ever open,
but also of one on whose sympathy they could
reckon. They knew well the old home could never
be the same again. The cloud which the first great
bereavement brings had settled down, only to be
pierced by the light which broke on her dying face
when the remembrance of her beloved Duke and
Duchess and of her bairns was told to her. To one
of these bairns, privileged to be with her to the
last, the smile which lit up the stern features, as she
said her Saviour was with her, bore a message of
assurance which no book of Christian evidences
could ever give, and no subsequent mist of doubt ever
efface. Her body rests in the Grange cemetery, " till
the day breaks and the shadows flee away."
In a letter dated two days before Miss King's
death, the Duchess writes to Lady Victoria : " All