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Updated: May 29, 2025
Words of angry altercation came to the ears of Laurence MacKim. "I tell you," cried the voice of Gilles de Retz, "I will not spare them. Well nigh had I succeeded. Almost I was young again. I was tasting the first sweetness of knowledge wide as that of the gods. I felt the new life stirring within me.
"Good-by, kind Sir Sholto!" piped the childish voice of the Maid of Galloway, as she made a little courtesy to Sholto MacKim in imitation of her companion. "I know not where you are going, but Maudie bids me, so I will!"
James of Avondale thought within himself that the others had greater interests in the quest than he the younger MacKim having at stake the honour of his sweetheart Maud, the elder the life of his young mistress, the last of the Galloway house of Douglas.
"I am the King," he cried; "not one of you shall touch or hurt my cousin Douglas!" "Stand back, James," said the tutor Livingston; "the Douglas is a traitor, and you shall never reign while he rules. He and his brother must be tried for treason. They have claimed the King's throne, and usurped his authority." Sholto MacKim turned about.
"Laurence MacKim," answered the younger, modestly, without venturing to raise his eyes from the ground, "and this is my brother Sholto." "Can you sing, pretty boy?" said the Abbot to Laurence. "We have never been taught," answered downright Sholto. But his brother, feeling that he was losing chances, broke in: "I can sing, if it please your holiness."
The Lady Sybilla de Thouars was merry also, but with what a different mirth to that of Mistress Maud Lindesay at least so thought Captain Sholto MacKim, with a conscious glow of pride in his own Scottish sweetheart. True, Sholto was scarce a fair judge in that he loved one and did not love the other. He owned to himself in a moment of unusual candour that there might be something in that.
There is Sholto MacKim, he is little older than I, and already he hath won the archery prize and the sword-play, and hath fought in a tourney and been knighted while I have done nothing except pull gowans with Maud Lindesay and play chuckie stones with Margaret there." And at that moment Sholto wished that this fate had been his, and the honours David's.
Sholto MacKim and his father were allowed to accompany them, that they might not be without some of their own country to speak with during their sojourn in France. The Lord James, however, elected to abide with the court. For, as he said, he needed some compensation for the long abstinence enforced upon him by his habit of holy palmer.
"By your permission I will ask my father," said Sholto. "He also fights on our side as the squire of Alan Fleming," said the Earl; "if Laurence had not been a monk, he might have made a third MacKim."
"Well," said Earl William, feeling his advantage and making the most of it, "I see that in all my little love affairs I must needs take my master armourer with me to decide whether or no the lady be a witch. He shall resolve for me all spiritual questions with his forehammer. Malise MacKim a witch pricker! Ha this is a change indeed.
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