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FIR1 AND SWORD:
A STOitT OF THE MASSACRE OF
GLENCOE.
CHAPTER XXI
/MAUI : Tutt soLDrgaa W TMI nun.
The Soldier, armed and unannounc-
ed, were eutaring the recesses of Glen-
!
What could it mean 1 Was it an overt
threat against the so-called dangerous
men of the Glen Y for dangerous their
enemies chose to p`r'sietently este thein.
Or was it a mere display of their military
power and right to enter the Glencoe
territoiy at any time or hour ? Or again,
was it a friendly desire on the part of
Colonel Hill, the military governor of
the district, to fraternise with the hither-
to recusant Macdonald', now that their
Chief had subscribed his submission to
the new Whig King
Such, and such like, were the anxious
questions which addressed themselves to
Malcolm Macdonald's mind as he hied
himself, with quick steps, towards the
north-eastern estrange of the Glen, ac-
celerating his speed, now and wain, with
the bounding motion of a hill stag.
Nearing Inverooe he wu joined 'by
several, of the clansmen, 000upying the
outlying villages of Inverriggen and
Aachnaaghon, who, alarmed at the sight
of the soldiery, were also hurrying for-
ward to know the cause.
Io this way Maloulni found himself
entering Invercoe with half • score of
brother Clansmen in his wake, and see-
ing John, the Chiers eldest sob, also
doming down the G:o:u iu the direction
of the approaching redooata, with .bout
.a soon of hastily summoned followers in
his rear, he hurried towards him, and
allied his followers with the others. A
disturbing agitation of mind wu notices.
ble in the manner and countenance of
the Chief's sun, and ho seemed relieved
and encouraged by the timely ari of
Malcolm Macdonald and his followers.
"By whose order' are the soldiers in
the Glen, John t" he asked in coming
up.
"I am not aware,' Mala;lm ; it looks
dubious." -
"Has the Chief not heen previously
made as Aro of it ?"
"No, I understand not: He is absent
from the village this afternoon unfortun-
ately, and the sight of the redcoats wil
be a surprise to him on his return, I will
venture to say."
"They must not be allowed to Inter
the Glen unquestioned," said Ma:oolm,
atraiaiwg his eyes in the direction of the
approaching company of armed men.
"In the absence of the Chief I will
snake a show of contesting their rights to
enter our territory," remarked the other.
"Come, let us go boldly forth to meet
them half -way."
A moment after the band of clansmen,
headed -by John and Malcolm Macdonald
walked forth of the village towards the
advancing soldiery, the van line of whom
were already almost in hail of them. The
troops were fully armed and accoutred,
they saw, but the Clansmen who oppos-
ed them were unprepared for a hostile
defence, of the filen, further than in the
possession of the common shock dirks
which they usually carried about their
persons. .Iobn, the Chief's son, how-
ever, along with one nor two of the lead-
ing Invercoc Clansmen who accompanied
him, had steel scabbards depending from
their massive waist belts, encasing, of
course, the native broad swords of the
tribe.
"It's a detachinerdl of tattle drawn
from Argyll's regiment of foot, I see,"
remarked Malcolm, as the opposing par.
ties neared each other. "The regiment
is almost wholly made .up of Breadalhanc
and Argyll Campbells, and looks bad for
us. They are our natural enemies."
''Yes, but I perceive that the.company
is under the marching orders of Captain
Glenlyon," replied the Chief's son, "who
should now prove our friend, as his niece
was married to Allister, my younger
brother, only the other day, as you
know."
Malcolm shook his head dubiously. It
was this same G1en:yon, he .ttuckly re-
membered, who bad threatened to draw
his sword on M'Ian during the motnen
tary altercation between him and Bread
Albans dining the ce.nference of the -Jaco-
bite chiefs at Glenorchy. Ths soldiers ,
were now upon them, however. and he •
prudently to ell ;tined from fur:!ter can•
anent. 1
Pr( *tidy a "halt" rem cilleti, :toff c
(;lentyr n, ateplrint/ forth from the a•i-
sanced line '41 his men, went towards the
t;lenco a party, who waited at a slight c
distance to receive him.
"Iia the ahsen* of the Chief, I hate d
to as:; y.,u, Cap.ain t;ienlyon. what rs
yo ur'bnsiness. and by whose criers are 1
you here '" said John, aptlntin7 a di,n.-
tied leering. , n
"By the orders of Me King. whose, t
servant* we •ire ' promtot'y answered 's
Glstrttynn.
'The pnep,.se 4.1 your antxleected visit '
then 1" further interregat• .1 the t"mire s
tont. "Is it a menace, or what
\ay, nay, goof friend," rejoined w
t!von "we here no hostile instrno ' 0
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slows nor intsotioas in enteriagtke Glen.
W.sad se simheaply
to collect the arsine of
y," in proof of
which he referred to oar of the two
subalterns who were standing o4sil er
Bide of him. "Show them Colonel Hill's
instructions, Lieutenant Lindsay," he
added. turning half rend on the party
addressed.
Thus instructed, the ready Lieutenant
produced an alleged military order pur-
porting to Dome from the Commandant
of the Inverlochy district, and the three
ofloers hating further given their word
of honor that they came without hostile
intentioes, and that while they were
quartered in the Glen no harm would
come to the lives or property of the
Glencoe people, they received, there-
upon, a kindly wetoume to take such
quarters in the different villages of the
Glen as the hospitality of the tenants
was sure to offer them.
Things thus satisfactorily arranged,
the column of soldiers resumed their
slow starch towards the Chiet's village
of Iuvercoe, and under proper guidance
the entire company were that same night
distributed and quartered on the differ-
ent clacbans in the Glen.
Glancing his eye over the separate
group of soldiers as they stoma detailed
for an immediate march towards quar-
ters, Malcolm was quick to notice the
form of Sergeant Barber, who was stand-
ing in charge of nine men, and who, al-
though their eyes met more than ono',
affected to take no particular notice of
his rival.
What arrested his attention on the iso-
lated group equally strong, was his ob-
servance of the Rd Hughie as one of
the Sergeant's mon, and whole small,
grey, cat -like eyes glanced furtively, ever
and anon, in his direction, as if 'anxious
to observe hint without being noticed in
turn.
"Sergeant Barber -e'.1 his party can
And quarters in ; uuhenaion," Melodist
heard one of the allocators say, and he
knew it to be his duty to make no objec-
tion to the arrangement. Two personal
enemies of his were thus to be quartered
in the village as neighbors, and the pros-
pect was nut an agreeable one. What if
tee bullying Seegeantehould select quar-
ters with Uncle Sandy at the Crags? The
puaibility startled him, and he rusolvd,
to forewarn the honest and unsuspicious
old crofter of the probability of such a
misfortune. For Helen Cameron's sake
such an issue mart be fruatratd at any
oust. He would hurry back, he instinct-
ively resolved, and apprise them of bow
things stood at Inveroos, and as the for
nisi departure of the party was likely to
be delayed for a brief space he took a
hurried leave of his fellow clansmen and
made his way up the Glen.
Within half an hour afterwards he was
sated beside Helen Cameron, and had
told the honest old crofter of the arrival
of Argyll's soldiery, and of the proposed
quartering of Sergeant Barber and his
party of nine men in the houses of the
village.
The intelligence covered the startled
maiden with a nervous and terrified oon-
fusion, which she was quite unable to
suppress.
"If the Sergeant comes here," she
said, "I will return tp Fasdern. I shud-
der at the thought of that man's presence
in this hot:se, and I fear his anger."
"'Deed, no, my lapis, yell no fly the
house fur a stranger," said old Sandy :
"for we'll no hey him here at all. This
is my house, and I'll invite whom I will
—but no the Sergeant o' a despised
Whig King's army Ind the just terror o'
my deer lassie," and the old crofter
struck his horny hands fiercely together
in attestation of his sincerity.
"Nays, but Sandy," explained Mal.
colm, "the soldiers are empowered to
demand quarters. The privilege has
been granted them at the Chief's quart-
ers, a portion of Glenlyon's force remain-
ing among M Ian's folks at Inrercoe.
Bat if the Sergeant insists," he added,
'you can object by offrinftto purchase
quarters for him at the Inn. I propose
and advise that alternative ; and, the
Sergeant egreeic,, as he is bound to do
the arrangement will cost you nothing,
I'll engage. •
To this way nut ,.f the wood old
Sandy readily agreed, loudly asseverat-
ing, however, that if the "rascal" had
t, be provided for in the Inn, he
Tandy would see to supplying his
"keep. •
Hail Malcolm consulted his own pri-
vate mind on the matter he would, of
course have been much lest anxious to
see his •old rival and enemy c►mfoi;ably
.edged- A second challenge aad a sword
ouil,a:..n equal terms and within some
secluded recess of the Glen would Mie
eugiested ftaeif in preforms, to the eon- I
iliatory attitude adapted. But such a
procedure was entirely away from the i
ictatee of his better judosent , and he -
aide.. the Chief had enjoined *PIA to
in peaceable with the Whig iarty
wherever met. so es to give the domi•
sat power no chance to exercise against 1
herr the vengeance which their recent
it:ntiasi•on had frustrated.
S•, Mal,,lm 'Im determined to observe the I
same affected indifference towards the
i,rteant chi ::n he the Sergeant) had e
shown t,•wer.ls him an hour previously
:ten at..ppe 1 bete* the Chief's quirt-
ts at ln.•arroo
They hat not been much lunger seat-
ed when a heavy knock was beand et the
door, and mooning thehumble threshold,
Allister, the village tacksanan, who had
been deputed to allocate the 'Sergeant's
party on the tenants, stepped towards
the group by the arsenide, and intimated
to the old crofter that the Sergeant
et with theta awould find it hi, pleasure to be quarter -
the Crags.
"That he will not be," Andy answer
ed honed the honeold Jacobites "I'll he;
an Wide birds here."
The Wheaten placed his forefinger
warningly against kis lips, and intimat-
ed by a side motion of his head that the
party reArred to stood outside the
door. .
"It is obviously inconvenient that any
of the soldiery should be quarterd at
the Crags," said Maloolr, ,'bit we can
take the Sergeant into keeping accrues
bye at the Ian."
"Sergeant !" cried the tackaman, de-
siring his presence amongst them.
Full of high and self-oonecious swag
ger, the Sergeant- entered the crofter's
humble domicile, obedient to the tacks -
man's request.
♦ quick furtive glance round the
apartment showed him that the objest of
his secret thoughts—Helen Cameron—
was not there ; bat by the counterplot
of fate h. wu 'mud to And himself
face to fan with his•snoosusfd rival, and
by reason of that the object of his dead-
liest bate—Malodor Macdonald.
Tb. Sergeant's self assurance was
great however, and unabashed he stood
haughtily before tem. -
"It is inconvenient to quarter you
here," said the taoki nan, "aid I pre-
sume that Sergeant Barber is too much
of a gentleman to insist. • Our friend
Melcol.0 here will lodge you very com-
fortably at the fun."
"Then I refuse to be lodged in the
Inn," promptly retorted the non-plussed
Sergeant I "shall quarter elsewhere,"
aad with a rw.ggeriag stride he made
for the dour.
"With me, Sergeant ; you shall e'en
take quitters with me," ...plied the
tackaman, fearful of giving offence, and
anxious to propitiate the irate Whig,
and waving the Crap' household an
adieu, he burned oat after the retiring
officer.
"Nuc, where's the lassie hifld s her-
self at all 1" asked Sandy, when they
were once mute alone by the glowing aro
of peat. "Nu far away when ye're
about, Malcolm, I'm warrant ye," he
laughingly added, as the blushing
m iiden emerged from the seclusion of a
aansll inner ''sFenoe'' leading out of the
kitchen, and to which cover she had re-
tired on the entrance of the Sergeant.
"And what think ye of the Sergeant,
Sandy ?• Should the word be, 'Whig,
awn', or 'Whig, come here r" asked
Malcolm of the sagacious old meter.
"Wool, Wool, the King's men may be brave
men, as they say they are, but l'ee hand
they're no bonnie," h. replied. "That
ill -looking rascal wed shoot an honest
Jacobite wi' as little compunction as I
wad wing a moor -cock, and for a lees
reasonable purpose, too ; ,and .I hope
there's no trouble brewin' fur the folks
in the Glen. I'likene the King's gentry
within a mile u' me, and I hope the auld
Colonel up bye at Fort William has nae
secret design on the mer. „- :':e c :i:. '
"Oh, Malcolm," sighed tin.. utiauen,
w:th apprehensive fears of the Sergeant's
malioe, "have a care of your words with
that bad man. I am so glad that 1:e is '
to quarter with the tacksm,tn, ae:d not
with you at the Ian.' -
Lightly the Sergeant's malice was rat-
ed by Malcolnf. however. He feared
his craft more than his. open resentment ,
He had dared bine to fair liiht aieeway
(aitho' neither Helen nor the h oneat old
crofter wore aware of it., an,i was ready
to meet him again. In fact. as r!ie read-
er already knows, he h el spared that
cowardly Sergeant's life, when, accord-
ing to the rude sentitnen's of tate time,
he was justly entitled to demand it.
It was therefcre with a high f'le:;ug of
self-consciau safety and pride that he
ridiculed the 1,raggart Sergeant s rower
t , hurt.
"We:•l, weel, lad,' replied Sandy, af- ,
ter a pause, •'whether or n•o. 1 only wish
W haven 1 saw the redcoats north o'
L ,ch Leven again. I kenna what's their
hairiness here : the glen's fu' them- I
and all o' the worst kind, too, Malcolm
and, if there's ony truth in Allen the
$,eras dream, it's also fu' .i bl•wod, and
fire, aril murder, and worse. And if
there's reshty in these prophetic warn -
int., e1as. Malcolm. for the young and
the aged ' Neither Virtue nr vener-
able Age will be s,oatei."
"Pot away these weak fears, Sandy. .
The articles of peace between Whig end
Jacobite are signed for the time ; bet if '
treachery should seek to strike us, then
two hundred claymores will at once flash
back a keener light than the sneer which
bind the brows of the mountains ; and if
virtue and lige are threatened with si .-
en ce, the youth and manhood of :the
(lien will guard their holy apnctities to
the death."
So reasoned Melodist, striving M im-
part a better helve to those whore he re• ,
petted and loved : bet that arae night
as he retraced his homeward path, a
suspicion that the appearance of Argyll's
man in that Gleet bodel no roc,! tack anrn
hold .4 him, and he resolved to watuh
and wait the lasts of the suspicious
oireum.tanese with a wary and wakeful
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