DONALD ROSS OF HEIMRA

BY

WILLIAM BLACK

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY
LIMITED,
St. Dunstan's House
FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1891.

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

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER

  1. A Visitor

  2. A Deforcement

  3. A Crofters' Commission

  4. Her Guest

  5. On Garra's Banks

  6. A Threatened Invasion

  7. "Kain to the King the Morn!"

  8. A Revolution that failed

DONALD ROSS OF HEIMRA

CHAPTER I.

A VISITOR.

Black night lay over sea and land; there wasa low continuous murmur round the rocks andshores; and out here, at the end of the littlewooden quay, two men were slowly pacing upand down in the dark. They were the serious-visagedCoinneach Breac and his taller andyounger companion Calum-a-Bhata. The whereaboutsof the village, across the bay, was revealedby a solitary light in one of the windows: nodoubt the man who looked after the pier wasenjoying the comfort of his own home as longas was possible, before coming down to makeready for the expected steamer.

The influence of the hour was upon Coinneach.

"I will tell you this, Calum," he wassaying, in his native tongue—and speaking inrather a low tone, as if he did not wish tobe overheard—"that there are many strangethings happen to them that have to watchthrough the night; and they are neverment

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