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Updated: September 2, 2025
'Lily can be safely bestowed with the good Sisters of St. Abbs, nor while you are out of Albany's reach is the poor lassie worth his molesting; but when I am gone, your uncles of Albany and Athole become your tutors, and the Prior has no power to save you. Only over the Border with the King is there safety from them, and your ruin is the ruin of your sister.
We are now proceeding to a spot somewhat to the eastward of Cape St. Abbs, as we have instructions to do a two-days patrol here and sink shipping. Abbs Head. We ought to start business to-morrow morning. We should be in to-night, then for my little Zoe! But I must record what we have done. Already I am getting much pleasure from reading my diary.
Abbs, she kens weel how to keep a lass wi' a tocher so what does the Master but sends a letter ower to our Prior, bidding him send two trusty brethren, as though from the King, to conduct her to Whitby? 'Ha! said Malcolm; 'but that's ower the Border. 'Even so; but the Glenuskies are all English at heart, and it sicker trained away the silly lassie. 'And then? the other man-at-arms laughed.
Abbs, about six miles off, whence she could be summoned at any time to be with her uncle in Coldingham; and Malcolm was to set off at daybreak with the captive knight, whose return to England could no longer be delayed.
The gray-headed lay-brother, to whom he addressed himself, replied that it was little the Lady Lilias could do, but directed him to St. Abbs to find her; whereat one of the men-at-arms burst out laughing, and crying, 'That's a' that ye ken, auld Davie! As though the Master of Albany would let a bonnie lassie ware hersel' and her tocher on stone walls and dour old nuns.
"I wish very much both R. and I could spare a little more time for this pastime, "but one canna dae a' thing," as they say at St. Abbs, and R. has to attend to Royal preparations south thus has the honour and glory of serving his country and his King I am trying to see where my Ego scores, but don't I miss a half-day's shooting.
There was a noise that Lord Malcolm had been slain, and I did hear that, thereupon, she had been claimed as a ward of the Crown. But I cannot say. If ye gang to St. Abbs the morn, ye may hear if she be there and at any rate get the dole.
Abbs yonder, said the monk. 'Is she there? asked Malcolm. 'I would pay my duty and thanks to her. 'Now there I cannot say, replied Brother Nicolas. 'My good Mother Abbess and our Prior are not the friends they were in Prior Akefield's time; and there's less coming and going between the houses.
Carefully closing the heavy door, Kennedy held out his hands. 'Fair cousin, he said, 'this is bravely done of you. 'Will it save my sister? asked Malcolm, anxiously. 'It should, said his kinsman; 'but how can it be? Whatever is done, must be ere Walter Stewart returns. 'Tell me all! I know nothing save that she was cruelly lured from St. Abbs. 'I know little more, said Kennedy.
Abbs, without showing themselves at Coldingham, lest Prior Drax, being in the Albany interest, should make any demur at giving her up to the care of the brother, who still wanted some months of his twenty-first year.
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