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I 1° “* oJ fl*OK5 .drear iro^tg?>t3tjgraaA^'lyT«jB<fe-«k a ~gBlk!&. or ywaatg;
so awful to ttaveBtas m fee; ^aogjgresaeouiSjtiacifelsaad'
1 ■° 1 ?’ jiairea. -weregafeicfidt feared by fci
1 wrapped m a Inge ooanephdd, sttodB 1 , ■ ■ ' - ,
• from astone ridge on tie border fl f| ,1Si ^^^ 8 ^ e ^ aaa3>ilHlfe!nn '
jl^I«nwQd, iBtoakixMJ »Mek bei 1 ^ The gipsy feMfUin had also mj
|h«a drawn Wftfeeovest. He rowed s S3a ear, of the tree Mack-faced,
j msotefaiy and feme, looking esra ^]te*d.f M ^ farcoae^i^ * D d aE ( -
i ly to die right sad left, rid te suffer- W*.?* 1 shera, and therefore disrin-
| el fee ride to bear his Bttfciwit fij6»{sfrSM: Nf 1 * «® «® e - *• *#i
|*g0^a«rgnl£,Mn*mnr,aeep ^ j d«^ rfeagbs, or nrines, or in lie
I dark, flat no eaeaps bat vWfc 1 deepest snow, fee faithful amnd bad
| seemed to await iim. Precipices, j never beea hfwwa to sheadoe fee sto-
; rugged wife dwarf shrubs ud &,>.) 1® Soefc-raift^ to his <*re, or to
i ken granite, rose more &«» a hua-1®*^ 5b tearing a fugitive. But, as
fdred Seet on gafefeh., ^Hr j steengfe and aghttailod tom, the fonr-
Jby the stream which s-flmstr season I U>died de^»ed, impris- ]
jhad reduced to a dovish sad afaal-j“» a “ * *#* “ l 831
] low pooL Them poising himself (IB i i ***** te ** dto * Eeii - ^
j on his staff the boatman dre w three ,‘ merdent, arose the Qjzt m-
! rimes fee end of a Jong chain which j ter “^ crisis °* h* 5 f»*roB s izte.
jhnng among fee underwood. In a ! Between tfo years of 1713 and 1745,
| few minutes *basket descended from I “f changes occurred in Captain
fe^nnade <ff fee diff and ha -ring j Gordon and his enemy. The Laird
j moored his boat fee placed himself in j Hmmmond’s Keep had lost his on--
fee wicker carriage, and was safely ' 800 tn fee battle of Preston Pans,
drawn into a crevice in fee high ^aflj and was bow lingering in a desolate
where he disappeared. The boat wasj oia ag 6 * nnstrasted by fee Govern
moored but fee adventurer had not i meBt > “*4 abhorred by fee subdued
observed feat it contained another I Jacobites. Gordon s banded mar.in-
passenger. Underneath a plank art- <*«** provoked feelaw too far, and
fally laid along fee bottom, and some sanguinary battles among (ten-:
shrouded in a plaid of fee darkest ***» threatened fee downhill of his
grain, another roan had been lurking own power. It was only a few nights
more than an hour before fee owner a -Fter a desperate affray wife fee Idn-
iof the boat had entered it, and re- hfego* gipsies that fee event oeeur-
mained hidden by the darkness of the re ^ which begins my narrative. He
night His purpose was answered.— had long been lying inambushtofind
He had now discovered what he Had access to Ms enemy’s stronghold, in-
sacrificed many perilous nights to ob- fending to terminate his vagrant ca-
tain,—a knowledge of fee mode by rear by an exploit which suomd satis
which fee owner of Dmmmond’s ^y his avarice and revenge. Equip
Keep gained access to the imprcgna- P*d, as I have said, in a Cameronian
ble fortress unsuspected. He instant- trooper s garb, he returned to the foot,
ly unmoored feeboat, and rowed slow * the cliff from whence he had seen :
j ly back across fee loch to an island j fee basket descending to convey Gav-;
near fee centre. Ha rested on M*. i i® Cameron; and climbing up its
; oars, and looked down upon its trans- i rough face, with fee activity acquired
i parent water. ‘-It is there slid,” he j 111 mountain warfare, he hang among ;
«»iii to himself; and drawing closf furze and open rocks like a wii 1 cat,
upon fee roeks, leaped upon dry land, fel he found the crevice through
: A dog, of fee true shepherds 'breed, »hhfe fee basket seemed to descend,
sat wailing under the bashes, and ran ® ^ »rtf«ay concealed 1>.V tufts of
before him nati] they descended to- heather; bnt creeping on li's L-rads
gethcr nnd* r xa archway of stones and aud knees, he forced waw into fee in-
withered branches "Watch the fenor. There fee deepest darkness
lioat” said the Highlander to his confounded him, till he laid his hand
faithful guide, feu sprang immedi- on a chain, which he rightly guessed
ately away to obey him. Meanwhile, to be fee one lie had seen hanging on ’
his master lifted np one of fee grey the side of fee lake when Cameron
stones, took a bundle from under- l^nded-
neafe it, and eq ripped himself in a, One end was coiled up, but he read-
suit such as a trooper of Cameron’s p T concluded feat fee end uing have
regiment usually wora, 3o ,ked at fee ^ me -feh the keep,
edge of Ms dirk, and re torn ol to followed its course until he<
^ >aa " found ri inserted is what seemed to
Hie island had once belonged a ws]L a crevice
fee hermitage of fee Gordon’s, whose iMfjmiley admitted a ray of i
ancient family, urged by old pnj i- ^ string lo raise himself suf- i
dices and hereditary courage, had fidt , nflT lo ^ a wn through b, he
been foremost in the ill-managed re- ^ iorciblT oa chain, which
beffion of 1715. Oaeoi tie irf , mWiklL Its unexoectodsmnd
Argyle then watched a favorable op- wobM w start|ed „ Buhner
portomty to betray fee lzrrd% secret less but Gordon had prepared
movements, and was commrsauned to his strategem; and had seen through
arrest him. Under pretense of faend- t , he ia toe w-ah, that no pow-
ship, he gained entrance to his sinmg- erfu] ea{mT cas to be dreaded. Gav-
hold on the isle, and concealed a pos- atone in fee
see of kings soldiers at- Gordons
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