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THE HURON SIGNAL, FR1AY. AUG. 10, 1883.
FIRE1 D SWORD. , C ,rra ,ainglial wit't t'i, words of her
lover which fell pleasantly on her ear.
And when she once uture recovered
A STORY 1)F THE IIASSACR E OF ireis'aa • f her mind her soul was just
"ns, gush of i retonsttth:u gladness and
j ,y. The lovas had each come through
furnace of the 'Serena affliction, and
their affection had if p„ss.ble only been
sublimated int , a diviner fervor and pur-
er thou.
They had much to tell each other,
much to sorrow over, and in the sweet
pa,weissien of each other's love much to
thank a tewticent heaven for.
Malcolm had preru,wly,leterwinedon
Settling on the L,ciliel territory,and now
that he had Helen Cameron restored to
Lint, and she had expressed a wish to be
taken back to her native Faufern, in the
LoAftiel district, the following week saw
the loving pair on the road thither. They
avoided, for obvious reasons, the path
through the Glen, taking a more north-
erly mute round by the eastern sl milder
of Ben Nevis, and while they are shut
wendi.ig their way thither we shall turn
back a moment to say a leave-taking
word anent the subject and characters of
our story and the after history of the
tier.
That tha Whig Government of King
William in ,permitting the maasecre of
Glencoe had committed a eery grave and
impolitic error, nut'to say a gross and ir-
remediable crime, was very soon apt erent.
and it now universally admitted.
News did not travel so fast in these
old days as now. Bet an event of such
appalling sadness and ferocity could not
long retrain hushed up The renlu,wt
of the exiled Jacobite partrgot s hold of
it, and, excited by a just horror and
anger, spread the news of it all over
Euroj»a, in erery Royal Court of which
the account of It was received with sur-
prise and execration.
While the main facts of the ntaseaSTs
could not be denied by the Government,
the opposite party gloried in circulating/
the grossest exaggeration, both at home
and abroad, of its barbarous details.
Under these exciting circumstances the
odium of the nation rose to such a height
that the King's Ministry became justly
ala..ned for the safety of the Crown, and
t., pacify the people the pe►adious Mas-
ter of Stair was dismissed from the
King's Councils, who afterwards appoint-
ed a Royal Commission of inquiry to in-
vestigate the affair, pretending that ho
had signed the order for the massacre
among a mass of other papery, not know-
ing its full contents.
1 were may have been a grain of truth
in the Royal apology for the revolting
error which had been committed under
the K'ng':+ signature, but there is counter
evidence to show that that supposed
grain of truth must have been of quite
infinitesimal smallness of size. The
true apology is to be found in the fact
that Breadalbane, according to Smollet,
who was M'Isn's private enemy, devoted
that Chief and his people to destruction.
He persistently represented him at Court
as an incorrigible rebel, a ruffian inured
to bloodshed and rapine, who would
never remain obedient to the laws of the
county, nor :i.e peaceably under any
Sovereign, an accusation which was ad-
mitted against Glencoe by Aro,11, and
pressed home by Secretutj Stair, acced-
ing to which the King signed what he
understood to be an order of open war
against the rebellious Chief and his clan
—never having knowntthe fact of his
late admission— and that Glencoe', rivals
and enemies, fearing the courage and
prowess of his people, pe. Idiouely per-
ve ed the r •'fig's Order of War against
the tribe 'Ito a secret deed of treacle ,
bloodshed and private revenge.
GLENCOE.
CHAPTER XXX.
TYR LOVE1Ui KIUNIT[D— C,,$CLUDIIni &E
II taxa.
The hut of old Dugald, the shepherd
of the filen-heid, was situated near the
eastern extremity of Glencoe, beyond
the terrific descent of the "Devil's Stair-
case,.' whore the nod opens nn.•the
spread of the hoot, and the iw es con-
verging on the Raaun•ch paves.
The Olen-heid shepherd, although a
Macdonald and a tenant of Milan's, had
escaped the general slaughter because of
his out -lying position, and was only
made aware of it on sight of the flying
and wounded fugitives, with whose pres-
ence the higher reaches of the Glen were
filled ere the dawu had yet lit the sky,
and whose wail of a -,crow filled the hol-
lows of the awful hill engulphed passes
like the moan of a swollen stream.
The flying fugitives had warned hie of
what was transpiring lower down the
Glen, urging him to tly with his wife
and family ; but his wife was lying 111 of
a low fever, and his ten sons being ab•
Gant from home at the time, in the Appim
distriot somewhere, the tough old hero
resolved to stay by his suffering wife,
and, claymore in hand, he fortunately
shortly afterwards admitted young Ron-
ald—staggering under the weight of his
unoonacious burden—to the covering
shelter of his house.
It needed but a few words to explain
matters. The unconscious maiden was
pot to bed, and as tenderly nurse" by
the kindly old shepherd as if she had
been a daughter of his own, until the
crisis of her nervous collapse was past
and she had gradually recovered strength
and consciousness. As for him who had
thus so nobly struggled to save her—
when flight would have leen easy for
himself—he sank on she flour imniediate-
ly he had rendered up his fair burden,
and died of exposure and exhaustion
through loss of blond within an hour
afterwards.
It was, therefore, all true, and not the
fancied m; -age of a deceitful dream, that
Helen Cameron still lived, as the old
Balschulish boatman had told Malcolm,
who had been mourning her as dead.
The unconscious state into which she
6iad sunk when her lover stood over her
prostrate body, as related in a former
-,chapter, was more the result of a nervous
shock on witnessing the murder of her
dear old uncle, the crofter of the Crags,
than the effect of the flesh wound she
had received in trying to protect him
from the bullets of Sergeant Barber's
,oldie .
From the dread and bloody reality of
the cruel scene she had there witnessed,
she awake at length as f:.,:n a horrid
nightmare of sleep.
?,d if Malcolm mos .ed for her as
one already dead, she in tat t wept over
the sad thjught, that he also was one of
the perished victims, and that she was
Best• ied vee him no more.
Eight long days and nights had now
d: -gged out their slow length, and the
'valid gt^I was able to sit up and move
auout the shepherd's lowly hut, reward -
rig as well as she could the kindness of
a' nple-m tried ofd Dugald by nursng in
tr his a;ling wife.
"Eh, my bonnie''tseie," the old shep-
herd would exclaim, as he watched the
valid maiden rest'4 her swtet, sad
on his bedridden wire, r 1 she
btoud by her :n the exercise f some
k' •dly little touch of sympathy or atter -
tion, "I'm thinkin' ye're just en. r'gel
sent down free Heaven to w•'e my guid
auld wife awn' back wi''ye, anti that y're
no auld Sandy's bor lie niece itva'. But
t'ut's roe, lassie," he would add with
a pleas int smile, "yo mains be in a
hit. ; awl, for Tm wearit o' neither o'
the "Treaty of Uuitun" between En tl sol I from kb Lordship's house and perks,.
and $soused was Ilorw4IIy signed, riot, The Priam iu this instauoe, however,
it has been said, witki,ut suspicion of wisieterperted the true spirit and hon r
of his Glencoe fa.11owers, the principals
suicide. of whoiu unanimously declared that if
Of they were considered so dishonourable
the two direct agents in the n►:u's
ere, Lieutenant-Colonel HrrutlGou ab as to take revenge on au innocent man
sr,nded, and afterwards �ointhl King they were not tit to remain with Luuuur-
Wil,iann's army in Flanders, when (filen sole mem, ter to march in support of an
lyor4, with the officers and soldiers tarn honourable cause ; and it was not with•
nested with the affair, were then serving;
out r promise from the l'rinte that a
and although the principals were never protecting guard t n Lord Stair's house
recalled home for trial, they have been should be solely choseu from the ranks
duly punished by the universal exeen of the Macdonald, that the high-spirited
tion of posterity. Chief was prevented from ma ehtag
As the surviving portion of the Glen home his followers on the following
cie people had 'wen reduced to greatmorning. "The Royal Adventurer,"
poverty and distress by the destruction says Walter Scott, "grauted the spirited
of their property, and as they had con- request, and the Macdomalds of Glencoe
ducted themselves with great niodera guarded from the slightest injury the
tion unc'er their misfortune, the "Com- house and lands of the cruel and crafty
ntiasinn" solicited His Majesty to order statesman who had devised and directed
reparation to be made to thein for the the massacre of their ancestors—a noble
losses they had sustained in their proper• instance of a high and heroic preference
ties. To what extent the Royal "char- of duty to the gratification of private
ity aml compassion" wore exercised has revenge." Such, in brief, is the story
never been definitely' made anown ; but of the descendants of M'Ian of Glencoe,
it is certain, however that the Glen•,ue the fate of the families connected with
people were invited back to the possess- the infamous transaction,and the moral -
ion of their just heritage. and that the speaking stories attaching themselves
lineal descendants of the murdered thereto.
Mien successively ruled over them fur • • • •
many subsequent generations. And now, in conclusion, 1 t us take a
The superstitious belief, popular at parting glimpse of the her, and heroine
that tome, that punishments of the cruel- of our tale.
ty, oppression or misa,nduct of an indi- On the Lochiel district, within the
videal descended as a curse on his child- lovely locality of Fasafarn, ring up the
ren to the third sed f ,urth generations, curtain, prompter, and diacover the awn -
was not confined to the common people. eluding scene of the stimng drains we
All ranks were influenced by it, believ- have thus detailed ; and lo behold •
ing that if the curse did not fall upon small turf -thatched cot, fn,nted with a
the first or second generation it would patch of arable ground, thruush the co-
iw•itably descend upon the aucoeedmg. tre of which a young man guides ti e
An extraordinary story illustrative of homely plough. A Highlander pr',
this is related by• General Stewart of wife to the ploughman, is spreading yet
Garth in his "Military Details of the
Highland Regiment..," wherein we are
told that the then late Colntiel Campbell
of Glenlyon firmly retained this belief
through a course of thirty years inter-
course with the world as an officer of the
42nd Regiment mod of Marini*. He
was grandson of the Ltird of Glenlyon
who commanded the military at the
massacre of Glencoe. Colonel Campbell
held chs rank of Captain in the 42nd
Regiment in 1748, and afterwards enter-
ed the Marines, and in 1782 was mule
Major, with the brevet rank of Lieuten-
ant-Colonel, and commanded 800 of his
corps at Harannah. In • 1771 he was
ordered to superintend the execution of
the sentence of a Court -Martial on a
soldier of Marines condemned to be shot.
A reprieve was sent, but the whole cere-
mony of the execution was to proceed
until the ; `loner was upon his knees,
with a cap drawn over his eyes, prepara-
tory to receiving the death volley. It
was then that he was to be informed of
his pardon. No person was to be
told previously, and Colonel Campbell
was directed not to inform even the fir-
ing party, who were warned that the Sig-
nal to fire would he the waving of a
whits handkerchief by the co manding
officer. When all was prepared and the
chaplain had left the prisoner on his
knees in momentary expectation of itis
fate, and the firing party were looking
with intense attention for the signal
Colonel Campbell put his hand into his
pocket for the reprieve, and, in pulling
out the papers, the white handkerchief
accnmp.aied it. and, catching the eyes of
the pa..y, they tired, and the unfortu-
nate prisoner wr t shot dead. The re-
prieve papers dropped through Colonel
Campbell's f•lgera, and clapping his
hands to his forehead he eiclaimed—
"•The curse of God and of Glencoe is
here ! I am an unfortunate, ruined
man !" He desired the soldiers to be
sent to the pa acks, instantly quitted
the parade, and soon afterwards finely
re'' -ed from the service. lira retire-
ment was not the result of any reflection
or repritr•ind on account of the unfortu-
nate a!r-ir, which was know i to he pure-
ly accidental. The '-npression left on
his mind, however, was never complete-
ly removed, nor is the Glencoe massacre
and the juknent which the people be-
lieve has fallen on the descendants of
the ptincit.al actors in the tragedy e!Tac-
ed from the recollection of the c immon
people, who -irefully note that, while
the family succession of the unto. u'late
Chit f who suffered is still preserved, with
t',e estate descending in di net male suc-
cession to his pnsteclty, as much cannot
truly be said of the family, posterity
and Writes of those who were the princi-
pals, promoters and actors in the black
and unfot.uoate sterile.
Fina the ssine source we Time anoth-
er anecdote relating to the G!e.icoe epi-
sode wl •ch f ely illustrates the force of
principle when founded on the high
sense a honor to which those rude High•
lander subscribed. When the army 11
Prinoe Charlie, in the ranks of which
were Maodonald of Glencoe, the descend-
ent of the murdered )C' and all It's
followers, 'ay at Kiri Baton, in the year
1746, near the seat of the Earl of Stair,
gtandson of the S :rotary Stair wbo
took such an active pe in the onneoc
tion of the plot a,asssere, the Prince,
aweos of the circumstances, and ancioes
to -ye the how and props y of Lord
Stair, against whnwt the rimer %nee of
the Y odanalds was lid ely too be direct-
, propose 1 that the (llenc,o men
should he marched to a safe distance
a washing to the sun near a horn, run-
ning as clear as umber, and with the
warm sunbeams lying in its bed like
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SPRING 81 SIMMER EI1ODS
Smt¢4 EogGsh Irish & Tveeds
Ana lances of light. H�G� 1 J V 1\TT .OP
fin, child, of one year, earthly es- i�1 ' ♦ V .-a�� --a--+
perience, with blue eyes mirroring the
light and innocence of all pure and heal•
tiful things,.and flaxen locks tlaahmg
back the shining sunlight of heave' ,-,•lls
and umbels on the soft, greer:, wa a
ground.
Presently the fund young mother picks
up the child, and appnachtng the house
door, crier out to the ploughman afield
with his team—"Malcolm, dear, dinner
waits you," and the man afield replies
—"Yes, Helen, darling ;" and the happy
pair go inside their lowly home to share
in the contentment, peaco,and°bl'hs born
of pure lives and true love.
THE END.
shivered
Public feeling r.tn high age' 1st the
Earl, and wl -'e the Royal Cor • o:en
of ' uqu• was at"1 proceed`'1g, it "was
pla''1ly depened" before the that. • few
days after the slaughter Campbell of Bar-
cald'ie, Chamberl• - i to Breadalbane,
discovered h'vsell to John and Allister
Mr :donald- the late Chief's two sons,
who were then "1 hiding ' 1 the wilds of
ye." And the n iden would smile faint
M is acknowledb.neht of the 1-' idly
compliment, but the deep sigh which was
never free from her breast, would escape
her in spite of her efforts to look '.appy,
r 'd she was aware of a greet void in her
life which only one voids end one fotm
could ever fill.
But the broken re' ibow o.1 her young
1"e was about to be restored. Could she
have 1•nown that on that same mot
while she yet spoke of and wept over
her lover rt lost to t ' 'y s•;ht forever,
he sea ape(Y' tows, ds her w ith the
energy and speed wt 'c' • bo..i only of
excitement ottretlsiedmtpules,how would
her sad hes . 1 ive 1- t Yta nd fluttered ut tere }i
rt in her t; ' ed be st '
d 1 t as
s, ad sol •'e she II 411 yet speak -
App's. -and made T -- fir -cel propoe'il to
them, on the authority of the Earl, that
if they woi 'd dt alare, under the;- Funds,
tett his Lordship had no conte. t in the
s •tughter they might rest a.sr- •ed that
the F -1 would move the f"' 'g's clem-
ency to procure their full "remission and
restitution."
'Ina offer, tempting as it was, was re -
feed. and by the fatality that attaches
u 1f to the fuetdepsof crime, the''Com-
tdmion" .tet: • came to discover
0 At in hie negotistior a with the Jo obito
H;;hlandt . the deceitful Earl had , ted
in such a way : to '9. h .tacit open to a
charge of F igh tr .son, •t consequence of
which d ~ore : he was thereafter foi.n•
ally ooe t'lted pi sooner to Edinburgh
�� er Cads ; but with the craft ,•1 which he
irg of Malcolmwas an adept he soon succeeded in estab-
p's tend• Less r -id love, is foot was Orem'', tin the tbMuld of I fishing to the K fig.s satisfaction that he
the hoose, F`• 1 lock at the door,and in, j bad or'y professed himself a Jacobite
ooment ate. card he ettw'd revealed to I that he might gain the c,nfidenx• of the
recusant Chiefs, and thereby the more
readily and successfully execute the
Royal scheme of pacification," with which
be had been intrusted.
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still fresh upon him.
A cry of agonised joy, ringing sharp
and clear, ani she w. a e ped to Fa
heav'ng breast.
Woe the spec* of an hoer afterwarda
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Sot in a sweet dream she once more
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ooeerenee of the massacre - that he ven-
tured to hear ns, the place in Parliament
to which his rank entitled him. Bat he
never regained public ooridence, and
died in 1707, or, the vs,./ day nn which
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