The soldiers took him then, and conveyed him to Inverness, where he was thrown into prison to await his trial.

While he was in prison he had a dream; he saw himself sitting and drinking with Alastair MacCholla, and Donald MacRonald Vor.

The latter was the man of whom it was said that he had two hearts; he was taken prisoner at Falkirk and executed at Carlisle.

Donald was more fortunate than his friend, and was finally set free.
It was after this that the bocan began to trouble him; and although Donald never revealed to any man the secret of who the bocan was (if indeed he knew it himself), yet there were some who professed to know that it was a "gillie" of Donald's who was killed at Culloden.

Their reason for believing this was that on one occasion the man in question had given away more to a poor neighbour than Donald was pleased to spare.