STAND FAST, CRAIG-ROYSTON!

A Novel

BY

WILLIAM BLACK,

AUTHOR OF
"A DAUGHTER OF HETH," "MACLEOD OF DARE," ETC.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.

LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, LIMITED
St. Dunstan's House
FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1890.

[All rights reserved.]

LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

CHAPTER

  1. The Wanderers

  2. Neighbours

  3. An Approach

  4. Stalled Ox and a Dinner of Herbs

  5. Qu' mon Coeur en Mariage

  6. Fairy Land

  7. Claire Fontaine

  8. An Alarm

STAND FAST, CRAIG-ROYSTON!

CHAPTER I.

THE WANDERERS.

On a certain sunny afternoon in May, when all theworld and his wife were walking or driving inPiccadilly, two figures appeared there who clearlydid not belong to the fashionable crowd. Indeed,so unusual was their aspect that many a swiftglance, shot from carefully impassive faces, madefurtive scrutiny of them as they passed. One ofthe strangers was an old man who might have beena venerable Scandinavian scald come to life again—aman thick-set and broad-shouldered, with featuresat once aquiline and massive, and with flowing hairand beard almost silver-white. From under hisdeeply lined forehead and shaggy eyebrowsgleamed a pair of eyes that were alert andconfident as with the audacity of youth; and the heavyw

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