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There was Loch Tua, and there was the bay at Bunessan, and there was the little channel called Polterriv, behind the rocks opposite Iona. Any shelter at all was better than this exposed place, with the treacherous anchorage. Hamish and Duncan Cameron returned to the yacht. "Will you go ashore now, Sir Keith?" the old man said.
But as he watched her he caught sight of some other figures, farther below on the rocks. And then he perceived as he saw her return with a handful of bell-heather that this party had come from Iona, or Bunessan, or some such place, to explore one of the great caves on this coast, while this lady had wandered away from them in search of some wild flowers.
"If they are anywhere in the neighborhood," said Lady Macleod, "I should be pleased to show them all the attention in my power, as you say they were friendly with you in London; but really, Keith, I don't think you can ask me to invite two strangers to Dare " "Then it is to the inn at Bunessan they must go?" he asked.
But to Bunessan he would go. Janet Macleod was not much afraid of the weather at any time, but she said to him at breakfast, in a laughing way, "And if you are lost in a snowdrift in Glen Finichen, Keith, what are we to do for you?" "What are you to do for me? why, Donald will make a fine Lament; and what more than that?"
His last tie with the South had been broken. But not quite. It was about ten o'clock that night that word came to Castle Dare that Dugald the Post had met with an accident that morning while starting from Bunessan; and that his place had been taken by a young lad who had but now arrived with the bag.
One night word was brought by some one that the typhoid fever had broken out in the ill-drained cottages of Iona, and he said at once that next morning he would go round to Bunessan and ask the sanitary inspector there to be so kind as to inquire into this matter, and see whether something could not be done to improve these hovels.
"It would be strange if they were to come to so unfrequented a place as the west of Mull," said Lady Macleod, somewhat coldly, as she put the photographs aside. "But I have told them all about the place, and what they will see, and they are eagerly looking forward to it; and you surely would not have them put up at the inn at Bunessan, mother?" "Really, Keith, I think you have been imprudent.
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