"Yet I have known something of the Highland runagates too." "They show another favour, and a very different one, to their friends than to their enemies, as your lordship shall understand," said the glover.

"However, be that as it may, it chanced me to serve Gilchrist MacIan in a high matter.

It is now about eighteen years since, that it chanced, the Clan Quhele and Clan Chattan being at feud, as indeed they are seldom at peace, the former sustained such a defeat as well nigh extirpated the family of their chief MacIan.

Seven of his sons were slain in battle and after it, himself put to flight, and his castle taken and given to the flames.

His wife, then near the time of giving birth to an infant, fled into the forest, attended by one faithful servant and his daughter.