Being "tabooed" by all the men who had even as much as caught a passing glimpse of her, this was her last resource-she would entrap some unwary stranger, a man with money of course, and inveigle him into marrying her. And then a bachelor, too! Did she mean to make love to him herself? The sly old thing! She took care to insert the epithet "elderly," in order to avoid suspicion and there was no doubt about it-she thirsted for matrimony. The idea of obtaining as a boarder a young man combining such virtues as abstinence from alcohol and tobacco amused me vastly. The naïveté and originality of the advertisement pleased me. Must be a strict teetotaller and non-smoker. As far as I can recollect, it was somewhat to this effect: "Comfortable home offered to a gentleman (a bachelor) at moderate terms in an elderly Highland lady's house at Pitlochry. Several years ago, bent on revisiting Perthshire, a locality which had great attractions for me as a boy, I answered an advertisement in a popular ladies' weekly. THE DEATH BOGLE OF THE CROSSROADS, AND THE INEXTINGUISHABLE CANDLE OF THE OLD WHITE HOUSE, PITLOCHRY
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