- 2023-12-05and gunpowder. The latter article was required for a very
- 2023-12-05they marched, half running now, and erupted into the valley,
- 2023-12-05her that anything was right if one got away with it—but
- 2023-12-05out two red heads, the short bulk of Lady Argyll, the patch
- 2023-12-05numbers. I never saw anything more obliging and humble
- 2023-12-05problem of right and wrong that she quite forgot to taunt
- 2023-12-05he assured her, to her relief. Then he looked at her seriously.
- 2023-12-05are a senseless lot with all their useless killing, and
- 2023-12-05the ray of light from Max's lamp impinged upon the opening
- 2023-12-05witch!” Kelpie turned to face Archie MacDonald, whose
- 2023-12-05“Were you wanting it yourself?” she asked reluctantly.
- 2023-12-05“As ever was,” agreed Rab, rolling a dark eye at her.
- 2023-12-05one of our party was unable anywhere to purchase either
- 2023-12-05“Are you?” countered Kelpie, remembering with a pang
- 2023-12-05She nodded, regarding it happily. Then something occurred
- 2023-12-05a silken purse, a linen kerchief, and several baubles.
- 2023-12-05reason to believe her dead, and that it was because of
- 2023-12-05comradeship of the Highlanders became a savage expectation,
- 2023-12-05other, and none of us even hearing the sounds outside.
- 2023-12-05and the rest of us collected our wits and followed, not
- 2023-12-05to tell him that she loved him. A dozen times she thought
- 2023-12-05bantering. Kelpie poked at a haunch of beef one chill but
- 2023-12-05Kelpie entered the castle through those massive gates she
- 2023-12-05ankles as sturdy as a man’s. The worn Gordon plaidie
- 2023-12-05indigo came next in value; then capsicum, old clothes,
- 2023-12-05through the steep wilds of Glen Aray where she and Janet
- 2023-12-05And so it went, along to Tyndrum and up Glenorchy. Morag
- 2023-12-05But I’m not belonging to any coven of daft folk who hold
- 2023-12-05sought her out. She did not know that he had even better
- 2023-12-05so he brought her another hunk of meat—to avoid offending
- 2023-12-05a blackened stone—and I arriving back from over the hill
- 2023-12-05“Och, then, and you’re another who hates him!” Morag’s
- 2023-12-05to sleep, rose and wandered out into the garden. The Hon.
- 2023-12-05doing it before Ian Cameron was cut down trying to save
- 2023-12-05“Why,” he began, and frowned a little, “there we
- 2023-12-05Morag Mhor seemed not to care about the teasing. She stood
- 2023-12-05his face. A bank of yellow fog instantly enveloped him,
- 2023-12-05“He’s—away,” said Archie, and it was clear that
- 2023-12-05Everywhere there was clear evidence of surprise and panic.
- 2023-12-05fled. And once Montrose’s men were in full possession,
- 2023-12-05Obviously, the tide was rising; and, after seeking vainly
- 2023-12-05as Kelpie could see, it was more likely to be a nuisance
- 2023-12-05But I’m not belonging to any coven of daft folk who hold
- 2023-12-05had passed through before—but this time with an arrogant
- 2023-12-05and go into permanent camp just beyond the great river
- 2023-12-05at the astonished giant who led the pack. “Back, or I’ll
- 2023-12-05Och, she could hardly wait to see him taken prisoner! Her
- 2023-12-05not it was profitable or safe, aye, though it cost them
- 2023-12-05church bell by guess. The arrival of our boats was a rare
- 2023-12-05impulsively she crooked her forefinger, calling down a
- 2023-12-05She wandered over to one of the deep-set windows and stared
- 2023-12-05have things inside which would make them uncomfortable
- 2023-12-05out to be lignite of little value, in the sandstone (probably
- 2023-12-05“Is there food for a starving—Why, ’tis the water
- 2023-12-05toward the house, screaming with terror. An ashen-faced
- 2023-12-05stop, whirl, and race back toward Kelpie and the child.
- 2023-12-05to have a good idea of time, was employed to strike the
- 2023-12-05clear evening, thinking to herself that they were going
- 2023-12-05to stop in time for just an instant, while something inside
- 2023-12-05Montrose’s army, at any rate. Kelpie wondered briefly
- 2023-12-05To his host he explained that he was moving his safari
- 2023-12-05The dance took on a distinctly mocking and impudent quality.
- 2023-12-05Although the campaign through Campbell territory was less
- 2023-12-05triumph. It was a braw sound indeed, a wild song that set
- 2023-12-05a quiet old man, who, in his appearance and manner of life,
- 2023-12-05but would stay loyal to Mac Cailein Mor, even though he
- 2023-12-05the deep black eyes still fixed on her, and a question
- 2023-12-05low shieling hut, and then waved at the two old people
- 2023-12-05steps were ahead of him, and then a long brick tunnel in
- 2023-12-05Then Kelpie’s foot hit something soft and yielding. She
- 2023-12-05of them chuckled, and then several others began to roar
- 2023-12-05but would stay loyal to Mac Cailein Mor, even though he
- 2023-12-05and ran like a hare, her yellow silk dress gleaming in
- 2023-12-05My power is in what I’m doing, not what I’m saying.”
- 2023-12-05the waist. And she laughed with joy. Here was the fine
- 2023-12-05game had no interest for Kelpie, and she headed straight
- 2023-12-05was scarcely superior to an English cottager. At night
- 2023-12-05with laughter. “And is this your own vengeance, Morag
- 2023-12-05idea wasn’t really as startling as it would once have
- 2023-12-05loyal for always to a person or ideal. This was part of
- 2023-12-05was the especial pride and joy of My Dear and Meriem. The
- 2023-12-05and fury broke out. Kelpie rushed to a high knoll where
- 2023-12-05a flash of red petticoat. Kelpie wished suddenly that she
- 2023-12-05been kind, and I not deserving it,” she murmured, and
- 2023-12-05and was clear of the oily water, now, and upon a sort of
- 2023-12-05“Och, then, and you’re another who hates him!” Morag’s
- 2023-12-05“And where did you vanish to that day?” he demanded.
- 2023-12-05so very much too big, provided she belted it tightly about
- 2023-12-05And thus matters stood when, one hot night, Meriem, unable
- 2023-12-05and pleading. “I have no home, and I’d like well to
- 2023-12-05’tis different for you,” she added kindly. “Being
- 2023-12-05at the astonished giant who led the pack. “Back, or I’ll
- 2023-12-05might have noticed the reduced numbers of his following.
- 2023-12-05skirts were kilted up over a bright red petticoat, showing
- 2023-12-05yell rose from thirty throats as some of them raced around
- 2023-12-05escaped the voracious appetite of the army, and more than
- 2023-12-05solid wall opened before her; it was another masked door.
- 2023-12-05behind. Morag saw the hut first and was off toward it with
- 2023-12-05“Indeed and no!” protested Kelpie with great promptness.
- 2023-12-05But neither he nor anyone else had ever explained to Kelpie
- 2023-12-05In the morning I asked a young Indian, who was wet to the
- 2023-12-05stealing, that a body did even against his own interest?
- 2023-12-05Was she going to begin her revenge by killing the bairn?
- 2023-12-05a long way round to Argyll at Inverary, in a huge triangle
- 2023-12-05He ducked rapidly, almost touching the muddy water with
- 2023-12-05doing it before Ian Cameron was cut down trying to save
- 2023-12-05answered Montrose, standing still, taking in every detail.
- 2023-12-05impulsively she crooked her forefinger, calling down a
- 2023-12-05up the steps, depositing her there with her back to the
- 2023-12-05in Stewart country. It is only a few of the strongest,
- 2023-12-05feeding on Campbell cattle collected by some twenty or
- 2023-12-05as Kelpie could see, it was more likely to be a nuisance
- 2023-12-05up the steps, depositing her there with her back to the
- 2023-12-05some reason. “’Tis different for me. You’d best run
- 2023-12-05that were of burning stone. Kelpie reflected that she would
- 2023-12-05triumph. It was a braw sound indeed, a wild song that set
- 2023-12-05in an iron sluice gate. The Eurasian had passed it, but
- 2023-12-05She wandered down into the main hall, which was still a
- 2023-12-05yell rose from thirty throats as some of them raced around
- 2023-12-05ideas, and he was evil too. So what was a lass to think,
- 2023-12-05They were approaching the river, and there was a fog to-night!
- 2023-12-05she had pretended not to know what Montrose meant, the
- 2023-12-05by the notion that it might be wrong to steal, even though
- 2023-12-05Angus waved a skinny arm toward the north. “Yon, near
- 2023-12-05and other comforts. At Caylen, the most southern island,
- 2023-12-05ahead of the men. Morag thrust the baby into its mother’s
- 2023-12-05army would have just slipped away home, taking with them
- 2023-12-05to them. The men, knowing of her murdered husband and child,
- 2023-12-05and phlox that drew him to the perfumed air of the garden,
- 2023-12-05and they with no children, that we have brought. ’Tis
- 2023-12-05not quite canny, and it was occurring to him that folk
- 2023-12-05word of this invasion! Kelpie wondered what he would be
- 2023-12-05with stating that they were poor natives of the place,
- 2023-12-05Kelpie raised her head from the snow in time to see Morag
- 2023-12-05bad thing indeed and indeed to be caught! But Mac Cailein
- 2023-12-05Kelpie frowned at the red-eyed and unlovely figure of Mrs.
- 2023-12-05slowly toward the north—he said nothing of the party
- 2023-12-05again that she might be the one to avenge Ian some day.
- 2023-12-05had shocked her so. For Alex, surely, would never change
- 2023-12-05Kelpie winced. “Was he killed entirely?” she asked,
- 2023-12-05up the steps, depositing her there with her back to the
- 2023-12-05when the army and its captured cattle had started on once
- 2023-12-05She nodded, regarding it happily. Then something occurred
- 2023-12-05again that she might be the one to avenge Ian some day.
- 2023-12-05he often spent much time with the white foreman of the
- 2023-12-05Montrose had had to compromise; otherwise too many of his
- 2023-12-05her slanted blue eyes held no very pleasant expression.
- 2023-12-05black eyes were sparkling with curiosity. They stared at
- 2023-12-05his fingers, right and left, and presently found slimy
- 2023-12-05Mhor vehemently defended every woman and child they found,
- 2023-12-05woman gathered them to her and then paused in the doorway,
- 2023-12-05to find the thatch still smoldering, and my man dead, and
- 2023-12-05The other he ordered straight westward with orders to halt
- 2023-12-05“A braw lot of trouble and grief you caused! If you’ve
- 2023-12-05It was a braw quarrel, with Ian gone white with the anger
- 2023-12-05back to the Highland army, not waiting for the stammered
- 2023-12-05The other he ordered straight westward with orders to halt
- 2023-12-05Alsoon sighed. “Well, then, and you must go if you must.
- 2023-12-05“How is it you’re here ahead even of your army commander?”
- 2023-12-05lifted her head and breathed the air of new adventure.
- 2023-12-05unlocked the door at the foot of the steps. He turned,
- 2023-12-05yell rose from thirty throats as some of them raced around
- 2023-12-05had passed through before—but this time with an arrogant
- 2023-12-05Curving her arms upward like a stag’s antlers, she broke
- 2023-12-05often among the blooms beneath the great moon—the black-haired,
- 2023-12-05a few barns and thatch roofs went up in smoke behind it.
- 2023-12-05through the massive oaken doors, on into the inner chamber.
- 2023-12-05Och, she could hardly wait to see him taken prisoner! Her
- 2023-12-05pouring into the cave of the dragon through the open door
- 2023-12-05gave and asked no return but to be able to give more. “You’ve
- 2023-12-05“Haste ye back, white love,” she added at last as Kelpie
- 2023-12-05They shuffled their feet, quite taken aback. The madness
- 2023-12-05was scarcely superior to an English cottager. At night
- 2023-12-05out, unseeing, her whole attention focused on her thoughts.
- 2023-12-05Sudden reasonless elation filled Kelpie. She wrapped her
- 2023-12-05talk all he liked of getting to the border to aid the King
- 2023-12-05innocent purpose: each parish has a public musket, and
- 2023-12-05Kelpie winced. “Was he killed entirely?” she asked,
- 2023-12-05then turned to look at Kelpie. “Gypsy!” she said, crossing
- 2023-12-05are a senseless lot with all their useless killing, and