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It was made by the wind, I knew, for it came loudest in the gusty bits of the night and from the east, and when there was a lull I could hear it soften away and end for a second or two with a dunt, as if some heavy, soft thing struck against wood. Whatever it was, the burghers of Inneraora paid no heed, but slept, stark and sound, behind their steeked shutters.
Surely I fell in some battle away in Low Germanie, or later in the sack of Inneraora town, that was a town long, long ago, before the wave threshed in upon Dunchuach? The man with the want, as usual, was at his tears, whispering to himself reproach and memory and omens of fear, but he was alert enough to be the first to observe the approach of our enemy.
My fondest memories are of reels I've danced to their playing," I said, and by now we were walking down the glen. "And of one reel you danced," said he, quizzingly, "not more than two months gone in a town that was called Inneraora?" "Two months!" I cried, "two months! I could have sworn offhand we have been wandering in Lorn and Badenoch for as many years!"
I skirted them as far off as I could, as though they were the lochans of a nightmare that drag the traveller to their kelpie tenants' arms. There were no birds among those rushes; I think the very deer that roamed in the streets of Inneraora in the Novembers blast would have run far clear of so stricken a territory.
But the picture that came to me first and stayed with me last was Argile standing in his chamber in the castle of Inneraora, the pallor of the study on his face, and his little Archie, with his gold hair and the night-gown, running out and clasping him about the knees. We struggled through the night, weary men, hungry men.
It is likely, too, I had been down leaving M'Iver out of consideration altogether had there not been the tales about MacLachlan, tales that came to my ears in the most miraculous way, with no ill intention on the part of the gossips about his constant haunting of Inneraora and the company of his cousin. He had been seen there with her on the road to Carlunnan. That venue of all others!
"I'm wae to see your father's son in such a corner, and all my comfort is that every tenant in Elrig and Braleckan pays at the Tolbooth or gallows of Inneraora town for this night's frolic." "A great consolation to think of!" said John Splendid. The goodwife, a nervous body at her best, sobbed away with her pock-marked hussy in the parlour, but Betty was to the fore in a passion of vexation.
"I'm a poor campaigner," said he; "I ought to be making the best of the chance we have; but instead I must be thinking of my master and patron, and about my flock in Inneraora town." I seized the opportunity as a gled would jump at a dove.
"I think I said before that you were the poorest of consciences to a man in a hesitancy between duty and inclination.... And all my guests have left me, John; I'm a lonely man in my castle of Inneraora this day, except for the prayers of a wife God bless and keep her! who knows and comprehends my spirit And I have one more friend here in this room "
But we had no excuse for lingering long over our entrance upon its blue flagstone pavements; our first duty was to report ourselves in person to our commander, whose return to Inneraora Castle we had been apprised of at Cladich. This need for waiting upon his lordship so soon after the great reverse was a sour bite to swallow, for M'Iver as well as myself.
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