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Updated: June 27, 2025
His wife Ellen clung to his arm and vainly sought to quiet him. "Curse him," he muttered, "I'll e'en kill him the night as he passes in his deil machine." Then Hannah knew that Oyster McShamus had seen her with Ian beside the burn. She turned and fled from the house. Straight up the road she ran across towards the manor-house of Aucherlocherty to warn Ian.
Through the Glen, and close beside the burn where Hannah stood, wound the road that rose again to follow the cliffs along the shore. The tourists in the Highlands will find no more beautiful spot than the Glen of Aucherlocherty. Nor is there any spot which can more justly claim to be historic ground.
Whimper McWhinus had held that damnation could be achieved also by good works. Inflamed with drink, McShamus had struck McWhinus across the temple with an oatcake and killed him. McShamus had been brought to trial. Although defended by some of the most skilled lawyers of Aucherlocherty, he had been acquitted.
The McShamuses, to show their contempt for the McWhinuses, had remained in the Glen. The feud was kept alive in their memory. And now the descendant of the McWhinuses had come back, and bought out the property of the Laird of Aucherlocherty beside the Glen. Ian McWhinus knew nothing of the feud. Reared in another atmosphere, the traditions of Scotland had no meaning for him.
Oyster McShamus sat reading the Old Testament in silence, while Hannah looked into the peat fire and thought of the beautiful young Laird. Only once the Highlander spoke. "The McWhinus is back," he said, and his glance turned towards the old flint-lock musket on the wall. That night Hannah dreamed of the feud, of the Glen and the burn, of love, of lobsters, and of the Laird of Loch Aucherlocherty.
From the little river he will float into the Dnieper, and from the Dnieper into the Bug, and from the Bug he will float down the Volga, and from the Volga into the Caspian Sea. And from the Caspian Sea there is no outlet, and Otto will float round and round it for ever. Is it not dreadful? VII. Hannah of the Highlands: or, The Laird of Loch Aucherlocherty "Sair maun ye greet, but hoot awa!
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