Soon the armed citizens flocked into the streets, and when sufficient were assembled the blowing of a horn gave the signal.

The doors of the houses were beaten in with axes, and, pouring in, the Scotch slew the soldiers before they had scarce awakened from sleep.

Very few of the English in the town escaped to tell of the terrible retaliation which had been taken for the massacre of Ayr.
One of the few who were saved was Captain Thomas Hawkins.

Archie, mindful of the part which he had taken, and to which, indeed, the discovery of the governor's intention was due, had hurried direct to the prison, and when this was, with the rest of the town, taken, discovered the English officer in chains in a dungeon, and protected him from all molestation.
The next morning he was brought before Wallace, who expressed to him his admiration of the honourable course which he had adopted, gave him a rich present out of the booty which had been captured, and placed him on a ship bound for England.
A week after the capture of Ayr one of Archie's band came into his hut.

Tears were running down his cheeks, and his face was swollen with weeping.
"What is it, Jock ?" Archie asked kindly.
"Ah! Sir Archie! we have bad news from Glen Cairn.