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Updated: June 26, 2025
It may seem, in my recounting of these cold wanderings, of days and nights with nothing but snow and rain, and always the hounds of fear on every hand, that I had forgotten to exercise my mind upon the blunder and the shame of Argile's defeat at Inverlochy.
He pocketed the money after a vagabond's spit on the coin for luck, and in twenty words exposed his by-love's device. They had just come from Inneraora two or three days before, and the tale of the Provost's daughter in Strongara had been the talk of the town. "But how did your wife guess the interest of the lady in a man of Argile's army?" I asked.
I make no claim to consideration for a cousin, but I'll stand up for Argile's name so long as the gyrony of eight and the galley for Lorn are in his coat of arms." Inverlochy, Inverlochy, Inverlochy the black name of it rang in my head like a tolling bell as I sought to doze for a little in Dalness house.
Now that I was here, and my mother no more, my old father needed me on hill and field, and Argile's quarrel was not my quarrel until Argile's enemies were at the foot of Ben Bhuidhe or coming all boden in fier of war up the pass of Shira Glen. I liked adventure, and a captaincy was a captaincy, but "Is it boot and saddle at once, my lord?" I asked. "It must be that or nothing.
We could hardly pass for peaceable drovers at such a season of the year; we were going the wrong airt for another thing, and the fact that not we alone but many more of Argile's forces in retreat were fleeing home would be widely advertised around the valleys in a very few hours after the battle had been fought For the news of war good or ill passes among the glens with a magic speed.
I saw he was working up to an attack, and I knew I could surprise him. But I must confess I said more than I intended. When I spoke of the big wars and Hebron's troopers well, Argile's a very nice shire to be living in." "What, was it all play-acting then?" He looked at me and shrugged his shoulders. "You must be a singularly simple man, Elrigmore," he said, "to ask that of any one.
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