CHAPTER III.
THE DREAM "Thank you," was the quiet answer.
"You hinted at some supernatural influence in relation to this crime.

What did you mean ?" "Ah, that is the unpublished part of the affair.

We are a Scots family, as our name implies.

The first Sir Alan Frazer became a baronet owing to his services to King George during the '45 Rebellion.

There was some trouble about a sequestered estate--now our place in Scotland--which belonged to his wife's brother, a Hume and a rebel.