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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1883-06-22, Page 6FILM 'AND SWORD • -. A STORY OF THE MASSACRE OF I GLEN COE. CHAPTER XXIII. DISTRL'yr-1L*IILYJN'n a►OVIYIN1M warc•aan. Allister Macdonald had the assurance of Captain Glenlyon that nu mischief was meant against the then of the Glen, and that the putting of the soldiers under arms that night was merely preparatory to a raid aga:ntt ante recusant Glengarry men. But the arrest of Allister s trusty do - meat ce and henchman, Hector Maodunald, was an unaccountable and suspicious cir- cumstance taken in connection with the warning words to the group of brother clansmen whom he paved on the road - "Beware of to•inorrow morning et four ! Everywhere throughout the Glen, ton, the guards had been doubled, and there was an unusual stir observable wherever a military outpost was placed. Allister r tint impulse was to return Fuck to Invercoe and acquaint the Chief wito what had transpired at Inverriggen the hour precious, and acting on the im- pulse he for'hwith set off for his father's Louse, and related in brief •terma what had occurred, expressing the fears hehad of a treacherous and murderous design en the part of Glenlyon, and of the ne- cessity of alarming the Glen. '•Nay, nay, sty son,' replied M'Isn. `•Your fears are natural, butquiteground- 1ese. I have the Captain's warmest ex. pressin- i and ass..;:.r. cs of friendship. You must be mistaken in the doubling of the guards, and the stir amongst the soldiery may be occasioned by a more frequent relief of the men on account of the extra severity of the weather ; the snow, I see, is coming down again." "I distrust Glenlyon, and I am posses- sed b fear f his trschery " insisted .::h.• MOW THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY JUNE :l•:, 188:3. "It looks bad," admitted the other ; "let us keep a strict watch over the movements of the party quartered in the village " "I am convinced that Glenlyon uterus mischief to us before daybreak, John, and 1 will not trust my head ens pillow this night. If it were only fair fight on the open heath, I would nut au much dread it ; but the murder done under the mak of night ! It sickens the heart! But, with the help of heaven, the devil- ish varve, if actually meant, will be frus- trated, Let us go inside." This Allis- ter said as he reached the threshold of his own door, and,lifting the simple latoh which "barred" it, he and his brother John stepped inside. Allister on entering found his young wife sitting before a tire of peat anxious - awaiting his delayed return. Glenlyon, she told him, had been twice at the house within the past hour making close inquiry as to his where- abouts and the nature of the business on which he was absent, on neither of which Minta she was able to enlighten him. ' "Captain Glenlyon is a bad, plotting, evil -hearted man, Janet -uncle thoughs he be to us -and, I fear, he meanour hour to -night," said Allister, and going towards an inner room he returned with a pair of short broadswords, one which he handed to his brother John, and thereafter began buckling round his own waist the one retained. We will be betterto fore -aro ourselves against possible attack," he added, when he had effectually fastened oa the waist - belt to which the sword -sheath was at- tached : "one feels safer armed." "Allister, my dear husband," pleadedw his young wife, "you shurely don't me the using of arms to -night 1 Tell me what has happened. Has Glenlyon quarrelled with you -or what 1" "Not that exactly, wife; but he has put our dutnestic, Hector, under military arrest, and I meat: to know the truecause amongst ; and aongst s rabble of drunk- en red -coats one is the better of being y a ° protected agttnat insult, or actual person- Alo Thea, Allister, try son, if you are .o' al assatut," aad saying so he stuck pair a of leaded pistols in his belt under cover apprehensive of danger to ourselves and of the amps plaid of eheekered tartan to the tenantry, eet ye back at once to which depended in massive fulls from Inverriggen, taking your brother John his shoulder, with you, and set a watch on Glenlyon's Tske care, Allister, how you art " ad - proceedings. But it commit be as yon wised his wife, as the two brothera pre - think. I amt a here him at dinner to- pard to go ; "remember we are in the morrow, :tad I-wfi11 learn the cause ort power of the "red -costs, and speak and Sector's most and of this unusual stir act with caution. I will sit up till your among the s.ddiery." retuns ; the fire is good." In thie'Oay the aged Chief, honorable "We will return by midnight or there- in his own dealings with his g. Oita, about," replied Allister, and, mottled to stroke to dismiss from his own mind, and the chin. the two brothers stepped out the minds of his domestics and retail.:rs, one* more upon the road. any lv;'cing suspicion of treachery on "Looks a wild night, John,' remarked the part of the redcoats. which their the younger, u they took the path look - words or: mnrements might chance to. ing to Glenlyon's headquarters, a mile awaken ; and, lulled to s false security south of the village. by the repeated professions of respect "Yes, indeed," answered the other ; and friendship proffered by Glenlyon, "there's as much avow in the skies yet the venerable and high-minded chieftain as will fill the hollows of the Glen level, laid his head on the pillow that night and 4he wind's as keen's a knife." with little sense of ntis$iving, and with This was no more than the truth. The nothing of actual fear. Had he been night sky was thick with descending made aware that Captain Drummond, snow and the winds were whirling and who had wilfully and culpably assisted in eddying down the great central gorge of detaining. him at Barcaldine House when the Glen with a� cutting edge of steel. time .was a question of life or death. had NSt • ray of moonlight nee a glimpse of that same in .rning arrived in the Glen, nalpitatin4 starlight was anywhere vis - he would perhaps have been st:,rtled out ible in the grey strip of sky which roofed of his f..tctl Benno of security. But of the cloven walls of the great Olen. that fact he was no; qct aware•. 8, lat. Within the vast solitude of the Glei er on. ho disntisaed his two eonit with a. nota font was stirring, neither was seen F,le••su:r. aid retire.] in due course to 'solitary bird on the wing ; but every - sleep It the night where along thetsow-clad pathways the The si.•,w. which had ceased to fall silente and' wintry desolation of death during the course of the afterno .n, was depressingly prevailed. agaihdritting heavily down when John ApproachingGleclyon's quarter,, they and Allister Macdonald left their:fathers found themselves all at once within view house at Irivircoe. and strode back to• of a sentinel's post, where, instead • d a wards Inverrizge:: • solitary red -coat, :they observed not less Tido weather had suddenly set in sharp then eight or ten men armed. It was and cold after three weeks of open spring their purpose to get near them, so as to airs, and a cold, cuttin_ wind was blow- overhear their conversation and watch ing through tine snow and pilings and their movements without being seen .r drifting it in great heaps itt tire• valley* hoard in tura. Load talk was being ---weal inouwtein. ,roves eF-the in, and, favored --by the thick- nea of the snow storm, the two Macdr.n- . present myself and interfere at all rinks ; alds crept stealthily on all fours to with• a worthy dosiestie must not be slough - in hearing distance enobserved. tered without cause." rection of the tau hidden Macducalds. Another minute, and they were by its he stared enquiringly and menacingly side. thee' the thick atmosphere of snow. "God help us. !" exclaimed Allister, "Let's rise and run !" whispered Allis- "it's cur own Hector, and he's dead !" discovered," and quick as and lifting up the yet bleeding head, he gaze! dumbly Into the staring eyes of the dying man. "No, not dead," feebly articulated the murdered domestic ; "only dying, Allis- ter. Your car, my lad -your ear - quick '" Allister bent • ready ear to the speak- er, and half supported him iu an upright posture. "Take this, Hector," said the elder Macdonald pulling a drandy flaak from his pocket ; "a mouthful will rewire you." "No, au," gasped the dying clansman; "your ear, Allister, your ear. Closer ! Closer yet ! Beware of the red-ooets- alarm the Glen ; tomorrow morning be- fore daybreak the r•ed-creata will be on ;�7 ye ! Beware !" and thus delivered of the ter ; "we are thought the two athletic mountaineers bounded out of sight and hearing of the outpost, and were presently in deep and secret converse within thecover of au ad- jaoeut wood of firs. "The riddle is read," said Allister to his brother John, when they found them- selves secure from observation within the thick shadow of the wood. "If proof of Glenlyen'a intended treachery were wanted it is surely here. Our ears deceive us not, Glenlyou mune blood !" "It looks bad at the best Allister," confessed the other, "and I could not but for this have believed Glenlyon guilty of such base treachery. To share our board and grasp the extended hand of friendship, with malice and treachery hidden in the heart, is surely the vilest of shifts." "Argyll and Breadalbane are at the bottom of this," rejoined Allister, "and the influence of that arch -plotter, the Master of Stair, ia through it all. The red-ooata are less guilty than their court superiors." "Rascals all !" ejaculated the elder Macdonald ; •'and 1 could wish to near ure steel with some of them --the titled courtanesking dastar'ds ! Bat what, Al- lister ! are we to retrain passive, and see the plat to exterminate us pushed for- ward to a suecessful end! By heavens, I will—" "Lower, brother ; speak lower," whis- pered hirpered the younger Macdonald," put us pass the sentinel outpost by • detolr,and see how things are looking at Glealyun's own headquarters. We are already within hail of them, and they can be ap- proached with safety from • wood at the back." "Then, let us at once go hence, bro- ther, for the midnight wears ou apace, and every moment of time is precious." Thus forwarned of the approaching trouble, the tw . Mscdonalds pushed their way throuTh the interstices of the thick wood of firs in which they had sheltered themselves, and, emerglug it the further end, stealthily crept round on the far side. of Gknly.,n's cantonments by a lung and circuitous detour to the south. "Let us first observe the movements of the camp," said Allister, "and after- ward we lolly epe.sk the sentinels, and, asking a word with Glenlyon,make a re• quest to him to he allowed to converse for a moment with my imprisoned domestic, Hector. He, I know, Would die any day to serve me or mine, and I will not stand by and see him deserted of friends in his hour of need." With swift and agile steps they hur- ried stealthily forward now scaling some "It lecke a bad night, John," remark - the younger brother as they pushed along, "and 41 that rascal Glenlyon is after mischief, this is the night r maul tit. Escape from the Glen would le next impossible en such a night as this is.'• -Ay, faith, Allister," replied the other, "lint it would be sore on the 'red- coats too, and I fear they i ,•nld not Ice able to fall ,w us fr.. We could .play tnetn s dance in the 'Devil's Staircare,' for instance, or half wt.y up tI., el, van rides 4.1 tt.c 'i'cak c' the Pals: ones there. they w^old be smart vel.• arena fel; .w. •They h:tt e alt .} v their w:.sket Lulls, the tub, ,l ul. n, whereas a Ibre ..aald has nett Ogg better tl.att leis a.t'i.. Pot w Ma - pt r ' ere ate albs ulife g an 'tat poet 1 .4e the chain of steel Ihrts,;h the said .1 falling snow. The ot:tl. •at hi:uocp t Lit ,1 .ut a mc• re g.1 yards ahead, and romp', ' f a temporary woe Ion erection, placed there I for the shelter and accomnviatki .1 sr!nary senting 1 Tl.c tnMy 1 ,reales. ;,ate tL•r l.tas• t reel on approaching, and were quick to notice that the little but vas eroe.itd , Itti red.eoata, who armed anxious in racier , their s._h t. ' tt hat think yv , f that. J.d n : atiil hr •11.er eh.•• fl.. t hid I rocky knoll, slippery with snow flakes, now leaping the narrow gorge of some swollen hill torrent, and anon flounder- ing through the accumulated snow drifts in the hollows of the Glen. "Nay, brother,do not shake the snows from off your plaid," remarked Allister as the elder Macdonald made an effort to lighten his shoulders. "The snow drift will help us to hide from the observation of the picket. With n mood thack of snow on the bonnet and shoulders we will be about as undistinguuhahle amid the snows as a pair . f whito-fcathered Ptarmigans.' "A good suggestion," rejoined the elder Macdonald. "We can creel as near the red -coats as we wish without fear "f detection. Yonder is Ilonlyon s cantonments in the hollow. Cautious 1, Heads low." - "Yes," replied Allister. ''and sen, a picket is marching towards the shadow of yon dark fringe of ct.ppiee. L^t us push round by the back.' "They march a prisoner," rejoined the elder Macdonald. "What if it should prove to be Hec- tor ?" ejaculated the other. "If s:., and - ----- ----- Urns -1i meant,tLen, by - hearers Irwin will warning message -the knowledge of which had oust him his life -the brave, the' humble, clansman expired in the arms of his young waster, rejoiced to think he had been permitted to tete hip with his last breath- The bloody fiend; done as it wee soder the cover et silk c uipietely f&Litled the friendly peofse aeons of Glenlyon, and showed the two Msed.oualda else hidden malice of We hear'. Their wavering doubts and feces were .tow ouolirtneu lllenlyun unsaid heart w• the tesaatry at the Glen, and this was the fitting prolds to the Lbo4y, drsuue that was to follow. - . - "This is sad work, Jelin," said the younger brother, laying heck the dead clansman gently un his wirading-sheet of snow ; "sad, sad work ! Bet poor Hee- tor must not he here onavewged: neither mast his warning worda tw forgotten. Let us harry up the Glen to Aneheuaion, and warn Malcolm and the fedks there of what we have seen and haus/ W. can then return to Invercut. and rocas the chief and the clansmen tlarge. " "1 do not half like this work," they of erheard one of the guanls say-, "and had 1 known of it a quarter -of -an -!tour before I would not have come here. I am willino to fight the men of the Glen, but i consider it base to murder them in colm blood ' The two Nlacdoitalds ed u:h. esck others gestures .1 alarm. ' They ere Macol. T>aCe, "and as Argyll them as nal mortal enevmrs "law ad:" retorted the 'irwt sisfilo& who, the delve rwtr,rt of r musket 8r- r r r z 0 z ti RR m z 0 ci r 7< Fie IOcR era - 0 n Mir OM r -to etwEl OD S=t" CID RD, q CDGoa DED CM 0 CID Y!l AFRIV\ LS &StYM1i; GOODS. ktth, EiJis Irish & Gailailaili Tves 111:70-11 LJ U NL O P T e , Thgreed asv •w ► i v t ' the �1us aca•l..ialdsas to cast *their f,).rtiessrr :iasneer s, of pity "14 the dead domtestic, and breathing [1' a mutual imprecation on the Lambda 4.1 the ns .inn soldiery hurried away aeto I 111 filen in the di maims of Aegis/seises. tie oustsurvashj Remarkable. aN TAr. Along., Howe, of Tweed, wae cured of a fever sore of thirty five years' dtaratis.n by six bottles of Burdock 81....11 }litters. He had sufessidee,abiy; wed tried many remedies in vain. He considers. Beidiek. Blood Bitten s lsitrwellou. sredieine- 2 Perfect, Positive and Pl,amt:,n"nt are the cures effected by Dr. t.u. Buren's Kidney Cure. Relief in all .see... of Kid- ney Disease is obtained af5ers f.,w dome. See that your Druggist gives yuu Dr Van Buren's Kidney Cure Sold bp J. Wilson Goderich. Zit "See, Allister, they call a 'halt,'" n� said the elder Macdonald, grasping his r• brother by the arm ; end now, he ad. de,1, -they are i•st in the shadow of the wo,xl." The wood referred to was a masa of which brushwood, or coppice, fringing starts i,and look•- tl h h d f d 1 t which CIPAL+ LIN ..torts:+r, 44t It ILL:, I' and And all t'I ale? um. so at. JOwph. points 1n lows, •� ,r.hlF.aToprk,Denl- laebreaka.tifateurl,a... I"7 58.Dalir,tial- a.., New Yealen, arttnn., n ,, restos, tans sad Texas �'tl-_` C II aAG1O GI�a('l'LK N, --W a>!Ut of s laser uumh.'r of tb. peewee et theee�sy, we Mae decided to rana[adAl* E . .PI2WGP Z24D 2r[ OW Z2` 0. 21[1CSZNZ8, in saetnecti.,n with ewe Ph.w beano/es fur the year L. which for material and weekmanehip wilt 1M sound to near D. not wire you ..rises foe reapers or snow era until you see those asanufactered try us W e will sewed all the spring fairs in County, which will gine the ferseets a good opp..rtust,iry to eaapect our machines We will warrant rep aachiaea to de ae K•" d work as Soy other made. Wo will at awl s7s • number of g.nod LAND r't;OLLER8 for the Sprout trade. 0001L2 T STOVER always on hand, sad will he sold (neat, f� r c..sh, or be exchanged for wood Coals paid for old iron. SICE IMILLER & CO. Goderich Foundry DANIEL GORDON CABINET MAKER, —Awn— T1-ItL LEADING UN IjEltri ER. ,71sT FURNITURE AT LIOTTOM PRICKS Ft)K CASH- lilt I have now on hand a very large stock, such as Chairs ofall kinds, 'rabies, Bedsteads Parlor Betts, Side Boards; Rat- tan Ch a irs Azo., Azo., Alpo. 2 Doors West of the Post Office Seeds, Seeds, Seeds. JA.�[LES mC�AIR, la IC ElEE D8MAN _ Nes to thank thepubllc for past patronage and wucld inform them that he h.v, now no ht th•- LARGEST AND BEST STOCK FIELD AND 0AIRBEN SEEDS frond's a most reliable drme in Ontario. w bleb he is prepared to sell at a price as low as any otnarr'eltabin house. Amongst the epee talart ! in poi atolare the "New }Hush," "Early Sun- rise." "Beauty of Hebron," and "Late tom)." The sure 'tureens to farmIng and gardening is cultivation and good seed. for the beet varieties. in.pectioe invited. A call cog lWlted. flour and Feed kept t1y on sale. JAS. McNAllt, the Scedsman. eta Agricultural Implement Iaauiacturing Dewy. ILIM,IT E D MANUFACTURERS OF ceap ars, Mowers, Binders & Threshers. fi.MJ�•D,.wtuion :'�eparator before you purchase. The Eutest ltunntug, Fimples' " and most durable machine in the market eycr with excited t . d 1' dtheecn+t. hw ""sit" 1-11.1.13r e oR ersl e r a veep ec tet y w tc , ht. forming a 'tor o cordon Ire mon Ls, Munn ,mals son .,- 1 hollow wherein the anhite'ru were '!near- t, ,,,gee to • `.'broader "salsa as stOdes .. ear mal.1., ' revile 1 a ter«!, erns erge.1 at the further end on b the Wet aeetpp,... rGreat e -s - rse•s, ar men we moat h. Id la w wwdA r.•. lla• t pro ' ��=., t a neighlwriiii hill a.. •,Ire r tea- •' iei ,'cold stn the dust dl himseltiiis dile r,•atr,l thein. as.i, ascending to the brow At rr 1� ('amr�►.ell and 1 as an Aron ts'tNap 1 a of a r cka cbfr whwh rerle .ked the hot - 1 A144 1 will not linea shot -except at the fall-Pesetalow, they saw the picket issue from the Taronrb ��:+ egg .now Rakes shadow o1 the of erhan.ing nr'ewth .4 ' Trite.+.. to "Silence, Buckley, wleuce,'' added an -d eeaebratd ren, r hrnshw n•l and r,•turn inwards the other voice. • True, tbe game is a cow rw.rall tare. l , .. camp. th. T w. nae must allow, and the responsibility 'rests Breathless with esciteia*nt and posses- Cala" combos, •(��[/ combos, meth ur rffieers, and not with us. Glee. "eel ..f " fear that a deed of blood had �" dyne, y..a know- been committal by the soldiery rest Hee- u ardly ere bat i• s military orders yo le All _♦ Iarurm.rl„e i ernes Boor. of Ian, seorona t an, t1(4Ei' L WA'X IIE Q' IC ORGAD A RO88,Ammorien, raAmmoOoderieh � eat n Thq aal"a .t tone many yard. farther u A N S Ath CITY 4 m. e o r Tri t 111 L JV U IJ A JLL Y 1 1LL l l LLA 1 a to �l V l /J 11 7,1 TIM oaf a no, las al 14610. Massa of a A1.. Ht has n, r1 te• elc.tlrfn,l1 atr.l 1] NCnw Is the time. at inn wish one or two nice moms at home. to see ianirr'a ro)rn paper 20,000 Rolls of the Latest Dem "Damn GlenlJ :r, muttered the p.er• tor. or on some peteoe nnknnwn. the ten T. 1. NTT'e. ►1Riral isMals, R-*ntlful rotors. and at prices ices than very moth inferior goods Ca'I and see Mem OWE brothers advanced eautinual tut with The /►*.'r .f 6r.'I Mesrtttrr. sea Jtsaw are the het a-slne to town. and ron.t be sold. sem who ms ha,l been add reseed e• Buckley; y' caa.slr.isi, ttaeaew owl • got just vacated Ti r e "1 hate him an.l ft tope towards Cheap `Hallos ! 1 heard a voice ! Who real by the red -costa there' • cried the eatchful sentinel. who! A dark figure -they noticed with a wee stnndi•tr to arms on the ground ; and I thrill of he'rrnr—was stretched -stark ih • nreeentmtt his e u eo' d. Si er.or, Cansdian'_i uisa. Ag t, Torono,(tln f (1*n. B..TnersTox, Tie -hot agent. flolereh' IC Li1(S1 1ii111! 31111 hashes At tz TL 'sa