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Updated: May 17, 2025
I had difficulty in getting him to consent to come with me, but at last I gave the prospect of safety in the town and the company of friends there so attractive a hue that he consented So we hid a few things under a bruach or overhanging brae beside the burn behind the house, and having shut all the doors a comical precaution against an army, it struck me at the time we rode down to Inneraora, to the town house of our relative Craignure.
To any one standing on the bruach we were invisible, but a step or two would bring him round to the foot of our retreat and disclose the three of us. The hours passed, with us ensconced there every hour the length of a day to our impatience and hunger; but still the way before was barred, for the coming and going of people in the valley was unceasing.
I dressed myself up in the morning with scrupulous care, put my hair in a queue, shaved cheek and chin, and put at my shoulder the old heirloom brooch of the house, which, with some other property, the invaders had not found below the bruach where we had hid it on the day we had left Elngmore to their mercy.
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