Who is this young springall ?" "I am Sir Archibald Forbes," Archie said proudly--"a name which may have reached you even here." "Archibald Forbes!" exclaimed MacDougall furiously.

"What! the enemy and despoiler of the Kerrs! Had you a hundred lives you should die.

Didst know this, Marjory ?" he said furiously to the girl.

"Didst know who this young adventurer was when you asked his life of me ?" "I did, uncle," the girl said fearlessly.

"I did not know his name when he surrendered to me, and afterwards, when he told me, what could I do?
I had given my promise, and I renewed it; and I trust, dear uncle, that you will respect and not bring dishonour upon it." "Dishonour!" MacDougall said savagely; "the girl has lost her senses.
I tell you he should die if every woman in Scotland had given her promise for his life.