But your aunt wants you to ride at once to Glen Cairn, to ask your mother to come over here and take up her abode till the stormy times are over.

The news of last night's doings in Lanark will travel fast, and she will be terribly anxious.

Besides, as the Kerrs are heart and soul with the English faction, like enough they will take the opportunity of the disturbed times, and of your being involved in the rising, to destroy the hold altogether, seeing that so long as it stands there it is a sort of symbol that their lordship over the lands is disputed." "The very thing that I was going to ask you, uncle.

My mother's position at Glen Cairn would always be on my mind.

As to the Kerrs, let them burn the castle if they will.