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FIRE AND SWORD
A STORY OF TL * ASSACKZ
(1LENCOE.
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE GLEN TENANTLEK$. eesrAIR AND
r ENti E.
That dark and fatal February mo
ing the soldiery had dune their terri
work well.
When the light of morning illumin
the eastern sky a scene of ttesulatio
blood and ruin presented itself to t
gaze such as the walla of mountain -roc
forming the Glen had happily had nev
before enclosed.
The different hamlets of the Clamant
throughout the Glen were each a reeki
military shamble of slaughter, and t
bla.k smoke which arose from and hu
above the burning huts formed a titti
pall of mourning for the ruin and mu
der whi.h had been thus ruthless
wrought.
Everywhere—along the main pathw
as well as within the villages- the boil
of the victims lay dead or dying amid t
SHOWS.
The sun of heaven never looked on
sadder sight than that morning reveal
Fields of battle have before and sin
formed bloody chapters of the worl
history, compared with which, in poi
of carnage wrought, the 'Glencoe massa
ere is to be viewed as but a small atfai
but the unblushing treachery, the savag
ferocity, and the intense pathos of th
never -to -be -forgotten tragedy had happ
ly few parallels in British or even Co
tinental history.
"The hand that mingled in the meal
At midnight drew the felon steel.
And gave the host's kind breast to feel
Meed for hia hospitality
The friendly hearth which warmed th
hand
At midnight artn'd it with the brand
That bade Destruction'. flames expand
Their red and fearful blazony scare
The massacre, general and fearful th
awas, proved, however, much less co
plate than Argyll, Breadalbane, and t
perfidious Master of Stair could hat
wished, and virtually intended.
On the alarm becoming general thro
out the Glen, the defenceless Claname
sprung from their beds and escaped, i
alert). cases half naked and shivering,
the hills. Ejected front their hurnin
huts: and shot at ty their murderou
guests, the fugitives in acorea tied shriek
ing %hither they c'ul(l, conumittin
themselves, in their wild despair, to
winter morning of darkness, ante-, an
storm, amid a wilderness which hn. !'ee
well described as the !nest savage nal
the Wog Highlands, with death be'iind
and before them tempest, famine an
desolati„n.
But the anew stern] of that ;tele
morning, which was to prove so herd tt
the half -naked fugitives, had to the firs
instance saved the entire Clan ..f th
Glencoe Macdonalde from^indiscriminat
.laughter.
Agreeably to his expressed promise
Major Duncanson had no: failed to pu
himself in motion with four hundro
men on the eveningpreceding the slaugh
ter, and had ho reached the easter
passes of Glencoe by four ,'clock in th
mottling, as he had calculated on, h
roust have met, and would certainly haw
lestroyed, all of the remnant of the lac
aonalds who sought that way of escap
from the vengeance of Glenlyoh and hi
tnercileas followers.
Lieut.rant-Colonel Hamilton had ales
on the proceeding evening set hiniselfrin
motion towards Glencoe at the head of
picked body of troops ; but both hi
party and„that of "Major Duncatisyu wer
nterceptedin their march thither by the
heavy snow storm, which had for hour
been filling the roads and glens. Arriv
ng as late as eleven o'clock of the fore-
oon they found the work of slaughter
nded, the Glen being entirely deserted
Macdonalde—men, women, and child
en—nave one infinn old man of eighty
ears whom they found weeping over the
os• of his sons by the roadside, and
whom the y ruthlessly shot on the spt.
"A wild merning's work, Major,” re•
larked Glenlyon. addressing Duncanson
'ho had just come on the scene with his
upporta, "hut not nearly so complete as
could have wished. Thu rascals have
ud front their homes and taken to the
ea/lessee of the hills, whither my men
nnot well follow ; but the snows will
o the rest. We have given the hereof
ich as have escaped us to the names,
nil in a few days the mountain eagles
ill feast on their flesh.-
"Kea far a•.41, Capt 'tt," answered the
ajar, "but what of Mian 1-'
rt
"The that mashat down," replied
enlyon.
"And his two cubs -J .hut sad Allis
r ?•' farther inquired the Maine,
"There you hare me on the hip, Ma.
jor," confessed Glenlyon ; "they both
fled to the hills."
"in what direction, then, have 3c* I
been made award, Captain r"
"Nortlt•east towerds Rannoch," roil.-
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sheep and goats. Nothing was left be-
e hind them save the unburied bodies of
"And what's next, Majorf'
"Get the property that is worth I
tag at lifted, and the cattle driven out
the Glen. And, that done, let ev
King's soldier march off, bag and
gage, direct north to the fort at Inv
lochy. The cattle will feed the soldi
for months to Dome, and so to repay
Government for the trouble the wrote
have put us to. Call your amen togeth
and sound immediate marching ortfe
We must all be back at Inverlochy bet
nightfall. The passes are bad, and es
dangerous, with snow."
"I will see that your orders are put in
instant execution, Major," replied the
obsequious Glenlyon, who, like all men
who are tyrannical to their inferiors,
was by native instinct most subservient
to those whom authority had placed
above hint. "The rest is easy. We
shall be on the march within an hoer ;"
and, turning about, Glenlyen prueeeded
to issue orders to his subalterns conform-
able to the Major's instructions:
Orders to vacate the Glen were there-
upon issued to the soldiery, and at once
acted on. What need of their further
presence in the Glen? The wldiers h
entered its cloven passes as friends, had
been hoepitally received and entertained
as such by the unsuspectedClanamen; hut
the hour and the opportunity had come,
and the military guests' of the Macdou-
alds had betchered their defenceless
hosts to "'order" and in cold blood. For
the credit of humanity, let it be at once
said that no blacker page of trescjtery
and blood defames the history of civiliz-
ed people. That King William was un-
awaro of the full significance of the in-
famous document of extermination to
which, under plausible representation,
he unguardedly affixed his royal name is
very probable, and that he gave no unc-
tion to the method—treacherousand bar-
barous—by which the obliteration of the
Clan se a powerful sept was secured is
very certain. The tree origin of the
maaaacre is to be found rather in the
private animosities of rival chieftains and
titled courtieos, who saw in the extertni-
nation of a hated rival an acquisition of
fresh territory, or an advancement in
Cuurt favor and royal patronage.
Glenlyon's orders were quickly an
gladly obeyed., The rude soldiery, sati
ted with their disgusting work, seem
'anxious to fly the spot. Everywhere
red hand of accusation was lifted u
against them from the blood-etaine
snows of the valley, and the smoke ,
the burning villages stank'accn,ingly i
their nostrils. The hour of noun was
hardly completed when the different de-
tachmentsmarched from the Glen in
long straggling lines. between which at
regular intervals droves of cattle and
horses, with sheep and goats, were driven
off as spoil to the garrison at Itiverla,chy•
The tromps for the most part did not
return north by the Ballachulish "Fel
ry" route, finding it necessary on neatenof the many hundreds of horned cattl
which they brought with thern, to take
detour round the head of, Loch Leven
and thence sweeping close round by th
base of Glen Nevis, debouch on th
train path leading to the inilitary Terri
son at Fort William
The property thus theftuausly ab
stracted from the Glen was very consider
ook-
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en sympathetic reader will accord absolution
to the maddened fugitives who thus
sought to avenge their murdered kins-
men in the only way possible to the hour
and circumstance.
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Returning to take up a dropped incid•
rut ,n our narrative, the reader will rs-
member that we left Mco
allm Macdon-
ald all but cut off front retreat by •
tx
semi-,rdon line of Sergeant Barber's
party. '..bo judged him, agreeable to the
i.utruct.ona of their superior, a desirable
prise t•, fixers and butcher.
He saw the line closing on him while
yet h: stooped over the dying youth
ad whoa, life he had nobly, but in'vain tried
to anve
\� ith his long bladed, double edged
claymore swung above his head, Malcolm
rushed forward on the closing line and
found himself all but confronted by two
redcoats, both of whom fell aside on his
appruach and began to re -load their rnus-
kete, chinking that, very probably, the
safe.tt if not the only possible way of
chocking the escape of the stalwart sug
rive.
"Not yet, ye bloodthirsty wretches
lie exclaimed, as a couple of shots whist
led after and over him. "I will yet lir
to measure weapons with your dastard
Sergeant, and when that wished -for hon
has come, God in heaven have mercy o
his perjured soul !'
Thew and such like expressfea. of
desi'ned retributive vengeance Malcolm
flung back at his pursuers sa he leapt in
to the cove -Mg •hldow of an adjacent ra
vine, the tortuous depth. of which worm
irregularly up the rugged hillside and
prevented successful 1 ursuit.
Thus once more free of the bullets and
bayonets of his enemies, he climbed th
wrath of the avenging fugitive Maodo
rt• mew lsea•wessYMfiea PTelwers eleetnees
aids. A suddeu leap from some cove
ing ledge of ruck, accompanied by a wi
yell of triumph, end • moment after t
dirk of a howeles* Macdonald had dren
the heart's blood of a redouat. And wh
shall say that the avenging blow wee a
unjustifiable crime t There are mainand crimes in the world, and as long
our common humanity remains what
is- a mixture iu equal parts of noble in
pulses and strong, fieroe possiots —th
r- A man who raided cot half* hundred
Id utiles beam Pontiac objected to taking
he the waren beth which 1 prescribed for
k him • few years ago, declaring that •
• drop of water had not touched hu back
11 in forty years, says a physician in the
eb $awitary Newi What must have been
✓ (he condition of his system, leaving out
it all esthetic considerations, and what
must have been the condition of the
• great unwashed multitudes of Europe
during the thousand years when the bath
was absolutely, unknown ? In cold weath-
er, this potent poison, or the moisture
in which it is dissolved, may be seen
condensing upon the window panes,
sometimes forming a dense layer of frost
and often woven by the mysterious fing-
ers u( nature's silent workers into the
moat fantastic designs, sometimes pre-
senting views ot startling beauty as if
thus designing to conceal the deadly
agent of disease and suffering hidden
within its sparkling folds. A few weeks
ago, I stepped into an unventilated rail-
way car when the thermometer teas sev-
eral degrees below sere *abide, and
found the accumulation of this frosen
filth upon the windows nearly an inch
thick. Did it ever occuar to you that the
same condensation is constantly taking
place upon the watle and ceding. of our
homes? A layer of frust such as coven
the windows on a cold day would bealso
visible on the walls were it not for the
fact that our walla are porous and absorb
the filth as fast as it condenses, thus pre-
venting its visible manifestation. The
accumulation goos on in ahouse,theiroonsa
of which are not freely exposed to the
disinfecting influence of sir and sunlight
• until the plaster and paper covering its
walls are completely saturated with de-
✓ composing filth, which pours out con-
n tinuaily upon the occupants of the house
a stream of noxious gases and other forms
a of dirt. But the lungs and the akin ars
not the only sources of gaseous and or-
' genic filth ; the cesspool, the gutter, the
vault, the neglected cellar, the wood box
d the back yard, the stable, the pig sty,the
garbage barrel --411 these and a hundred
other sources constantly pour out a dead-
ly stream of poisonous gases and organic
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e- hillside for a considerable heght, (and
ed creeping under the projecting ledge of a
a mast of rock, which stood sheltered frau
p the piercing winds, and into which the
d snows had not been drifted, he stretched
,1 himself fur needed rest, and overcome
n by exeitemeut, emotion and fatigue,
found fear the hour a blessed relief from
the agony of his waking thoughts in a
brief hut dee,' sleep
How long he slept he knew not, but
when he awoke the light of day had lone
broke, and the voices) and shootings of
wen tilled the Glen.
It seemed all a horrid nightmare, the
scene of carnage through which he had
t just passed ; and it was long before he
o could collect his wandering thoughts into
a sequent form regarding the events of the
, preceding night.
e But if he had any lingering doubts as
e to the dread reality ot the risitatien of
tire and death which had that morning
swept the Glen, the sight which -present-
- ed itself when he had arisen to his feet
- and stood on the brow of the cliff over-.
lack ng the valley. utoat conclusively as-
sured hint of the dread reality f the
tragic drams.
The half dozen hamlets whist: nestled
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their victims and the smoking ruins o
the plundered hamlets, and for days an
weeks afterwards solitary mourners nigh
be seen steadily searching the valley fo
the remains of their pershea relatives
tlutt their, last rites of the dead night b
accorded them, and their bodies buried
within their native valley in peace.
The threat of "Fire and Sword" had
done its worst on their devoted hesda,bu
the end was not seen with the departure
of the soldiery. Thrust from their lowly
though comfortable homes, the escaped
fugitives found themselves facing slow
death on the snow -bound hills, and miles
from any possible place of shelter.
f at the feet of the Glen were now a mass
d of blackened smoking ruins. Not a edi-
t Lary clansmen remained within the 'poun-
✓ tain boundaries of their paternal district,
, but eterywhere the murderous bayeeets
e of the redcoats flashed back tic ptliid
niorning light, and their shoutings as
they drove off the horses and cattle re-
sounded helhtwly and bit( arly in his
t eats.
Fur weary hours the lonely fugitive sat
there, watching with a wary eye the pro-
ceedings of the enemy—themilitary tnur-
derers of his be'oved kinsmen --and hun-
gering for the revenge which he righte-
ously deemed his own, and which he
there and then resolved en sharply and
quickly effecting, before rt:turuine back
to Auchenaion te claim the bodies of his
aged father, of h,anest Uncle Sandy of
the Crags, and of her whom his heart—
now widowed forever --had '.eld as the
dearest and tenderest of earth's treis-
u res.
Full of these resolves, he saw the sol-
diers march out of the Glen in long, ir-
regular lines, and with a firmly uttered
"They go, and 1 follow thein," he buried
bin nelf from immediate sight in the det-
cending hollows of the mountain ravine
at the head of which he had briefly but
1.141'11 rely rested.
(To BB ctiNTlNtiiie)
Within the crevasses of the rocks end
in the most sheltered spots of the wind-
swept bullies among the bleak hills. the
poor, shivering, half -chid wretches strove
to shelter and hide themselves, and but
for the fact that thaClansmen, with their
wives and children, were t.aturaily of ro-
bust constitutions and accustomed to the
mountain sirs and frequent exposure en
the hills, they must inevitably have suc-
cumbed in miserable greupe to, the chill-
ing influencea of their condition end the
tragic privati('ns they were in very many
cams h r days forced to endure.
The record of these private sufferings
has fortuustely perished even from the
keeping e1 local tradition, and the wird
which today stirs the brackens in the
Glen bears no record of the imprecations
' treatialh►ne's retainers hare closed
the Rannoch parses," Answered the Ms•,
tor, "en, (..rtunately, they are likely to
be pro; erly received there; if their native
uniting doss not induce them t , strike
des nor' h te Lochaber
flung at the heads of the ruthless soldi-
ery by the servicing Clansmen errident•
ally spared to ruin and tears.
But if, as in the majority of case•,dea-
pair succeeded eviction, there were indi-
vidual instances of the fugitive Clare-
nitn, maddened by the wrongs they had
suffered, tracking, in the face of &lout
certain death, several . f the miscreants
to their merited doom, and for months
after the occurrence of the massacre, no
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