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Updated: June 1, 2025
The lord of Bute sat not down again, for the feast was at an end. Sir Oscar Redmain, minding that he had to travel all the way to Kilmory that night, went to his master and spoke with him aside.
Being assured that Kilmory was well guarded, and prepared to offer a strong resistance, Kenric asked to see Ailsa Redmain. Ailsa was in the fields. "Ailsa," said he when he had found her, "you have heard of the great danger that threatens our island?" "Who is there in all Bute that hath not already heard it, my lord?" said she.
Well, on that same day Earl Kenric went secretly over to the forest of Toward, in Cowall, with a few chosen men, and in the evening when Allan was setting forth for Scalpsie he found two great black wolves lying dead and bloody beside the granary of Kilmory Castle, and he cut off their heads and carried the same to Rothesay and delivered them to the king.
"With such instruments and a snowy ground, master Redmain, you might be back at your castle of Kilmory in two flickers of a rush light. Go you to Kilmory tonight?" "Yes," said Allan, "we go at once, for now I see my father is ready. Give you goodnight, my lords." "Goodnight, boy," said the three guests. And Allan, with his father and Alpin, then left the hall.
"And what boon is that?" asked Kenric, already guessing what it might be. "It is," said Duncan, standing to his full height and growing very red "It is that there lives with Elspeth Blackfell, over at Kilmory, one whom men name Aasta the Fair, and she is a thrall.
"Who is the man that so cruelly slew your dog?" asked Kenric. "It was young Allan Redmain of Kilmory, and him do I charge," said the farmer. "Allan Redmain!" exclaimed Kenric, in alarm at the thought of sitting in judgment upon his own friend. Then he stirred uneasily in his seat, and bit his lips in trying to see a way of escape out of his difficulty.
"Ah, Allan," he added, seeing young Redmain already on board, "I was but now about to ask if you had not yet come across from Kilmory. Where is Sir Oscar this morning?" "Hard at work in the fields," answered Allan. "And he bade me tell you that should King Alexander commission you on any dangerous enterprise, there are threescore of fishermen at your service over at Kilmory." "'Tis well.
God watch between us in our danger. The holy Mother protect you, and on earth or in Heaven grant that we may meet again!" Then holding her near him he touched her white brow with his lips and left her sadly. Passing across the meadows of Kilmory he found Lulach the herd boy.
One by one the ships dropped anchor in the bay, and from each there poured a vast number of warriors carrying bows and battle-axes, swords and spears. Behind their leaders, the terrible Rudri and the king of Man, they marched upward to the castle of Kilmory. "Spare not!" cried Rudri, flourishing his sword. "Death to the traitor of Bute, the slayer of our children!" cried Sweyn of Colonsay.
Her father, Sir Oscar Redmain, of Kilmory Castle, was the steward of Earl Hamish of Bute, and Ailsa was even as a sister to the two lads of Rothesay Castle. With Kenric, the younger of the earl's sons, she had been taught what little there was to be learned in those rude times, under Godfrey Thurstan, the Abbot of St.
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