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Clutching the useless splintered shaft, she was now at the mercy of the current, swept along like a piece of driftwood. She looked about frantically. What was that roaring noise? It was the waterfalls ahead! In the meantime, Del Mar's other two men had entered the house and had run up-stairs, knowing well his wrath if anything had happened.
The Earl of Mar's army lay week after week at Perth, till at last it met the enemy under Argyle at Sheriffmuir. "You know how that went. The Highland clans in the right and centre carried all before them, and drove the enemy from the field, but on the left they beat us badly. So both parties claimed the victory. But, victory or defeat, it was fatal to the cause of the Chevalier.
This bugle, with its crowned falcon, proves it," added the Southron, holding up the very bugle which the earl had sent by Halbert to Wallace, and which was ornamented with the crest of Mar wrought in gold. "That this has been Lord Mar's," replied the prior, "there is no doubt; but may not this man have found it?
It was only when the little clock upon the chimney-piece chimed the half-hour after six, that she began to wonder about the baby. "His mar's had him longer than ever," she said; "you'd better go and fetch him, Liza. She'll be wanting to dress for dinner, I dessay. I suppose she's going down to dinner to-night, though there is something up."
In the meantime Del Mar brought out a wire mat and laid it in front of the door where any one who entered or left would be sure to step on it. The various connections made, the man placed a switch in the concealment of a heavily-curtained window and replaced everything as he found it. Thus it was that Elaine and I came at last to Del Mar's bungalow, I must admit, with some misgivings.
Half carrying, half forcing Elaine down into the water, Del Mar and his two men, all four of the party clad in the outlandish submarine suits, bore the poor girl literally along the bottom of the bay until they reached a point which they knew to be directly under the entrance to the secret submarine harbor. Del Mar's mind was working feverishly.
"My lord had the right to chasten me. I am his ward, and I did deceive him. But while he foamed at me came word of M. de Mar's capture. Then Mayenne swore he should pay for this dear. He said he should be found guilty of the murder. He said plenty of witnesses would swear to it. He said M. de Mar should be tortured to make him confess." With an oath Monsieur sprang forward.
Lord Nairn had been educated to the naval service, and had distinguished himself for bravery. He refused the oaths at the Revolution, and consequently did not take his seat in Parliament. His wife, Margaret, appears to have shared in her husband's enthusiasm, and to have resembled him in courage. In the Earl of Mar's correspondence frequent allusion is made to her under the name of Mrs. Mellor.
Murray now unfolded his errand-first to obtain a band of Sir John's trustiest people to assist in rescuing the preserver of the earl's life from immediate destruction; and secondly, if a commission for Lord Mar's release did not arrive from King Edward, to aid him to free his uncle and the countess from Dumbarton Castle. Sir John listened with growing anxiety to his nephew's details.
She must not escape now at any cost." The diving man dove back into the panel to escape Del Mar's wrath, while Del Mar hurried out, leaving his valet in the library. Quickly, Del Mar made his way to a secret hiding-place in the hills back of the bay. There he found his picked band of men armed with rifles. As briefly as he could he told them of what had happened.
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