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And 'twas not for the heather she was called `the purple land. And 'twas not for her loveliness her children blessed their God But for secret places of the hills, and the mountain heights untrod." "Who was the old man I found in what you call your hidy-hole?" asked Wallace, turning suddenly to his companion.
"Yea, I have the honour to be one of the Lord's servants." Upon hearing this the soldiers let him go, and bade him get off the field as fast as possible. Cargill was not slow to obey, and soon reached the alders, where he fell almost fainting to the ground. Here he was discovered by Wallace, and recognised as the old man whom he had met in Andrew Black's hidy-hole.
Wallace, who had reached Edinburgh in company with her brother David Spence, Jean Black, Will Wallace, Quentin Dick, and Jock Bruce the blacksmith. "But I canna understand, lassie," said Mrs. Black to Jean, "hoo ye werena a' roasted alive i' the hidy-hole, or suffocated at the best; an' hoo did ye ever get oot wi' the ruckle o' burning rafters abune ye?"
Mitchell down into the hidy-hole and established himself in the chimney corner with a look of imbecile innocence that was almost too perfect.
Hooever, he's a wonderfu' man; gangs aboot the country preachin' everywhere altho' he kens that the sodgers are aye on the look-oot for him, an' that if they catch him it's certain death. He wad have been at this communion nae doot, if he hadna engaged to preach somewhere near Sanquhar this vera day." "Then he has left the hidy-hole by this time, I suppose?"
The man led the way familiar enough to Peter; and in the hidy-hole he found several persons, some of whom, from their costume, were evidently ministers. They paid little attention to the boy at first, being engaged in earnest conversation. "No, no, Mr. Cargill," said one. "I cannot agree with you in the stern line of demarcation which you would draw between us.
Ye cud hae tellt by naething intil't what ever it was meant for, hoose or byre or barn, kirk or kirkyard. It had been jist a hidy-hole in troubled times, whan the cuintry wud be swarmin wi' stravaguin marauders! 'What made ye the seat for, Kirsty? asked Gordon, calling her by her name for the first time, and falling into the mother tongue with a flash of his old manner.
Noo that the hidy-hole is gaen, there's no' a safe hoose in a' the land, only the caves an' the peat-bogs, and even they are but puir protection." "Uncle dear, is not the Lord our hiding-place until these calamities be overpast?" said Jean, while the tears that she could not suppress ran down her cheeks. "Ye're right, bairn. God forgi'e my want o' faith. Rin awa' noo.
The surprise was mingled with an uncomfortable feeling of regret, for the action seemed inconsistent with the maiden's natural modesty. "Forgie me, sir," she said, "for being so bold, but oh! sir, if ye knew how anxious I am about Uncle Black, ye would understand he is wanted so much, an' there's them in the hidy-hole that would fare ill if he was taken to prison just now. If ye would "
He was looking for my gun, too, but that was in a hidy-hole. I got up next morning with a dizzy head, and followed him nigh ten miles. I had a shot at him, but I missed, and his legs were too long for me. Yon's the dangerous lad." "Where did he go, think you?" I asked. "To the hills. To the refuge of every ne'er-do-weel. Belike the Indians have got his scalp, and I'm not regretting it."
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