CHAPTER X: A Perilous Journey.

 CHAPTER XI: Free.

 CHAPTER XII: The End of the Quarrel.

 CHAPTER XIII: Prince Charles.

 CHAPTER XIV: Prestonpans.

 CHAPTER XV: A Mission.

 CHAPTER XVI: The March to Derby.

 CHAPTER XVII: A Baffled Plot.

 CHAPTER XVIII: Culloden.

 CHAPTER XIX: Fugitives.

 CHAPTER XX: Happy Days.

 

CHAPTER I: The Return of a Prodigal.

It was a dull evening in the month of September, 1728. The apprentices had closed and barred the shutters and the day's work was over. Supper was laid in the long room over the shop, the viands were on the table, and round it were standing Bailie Anderson and his wife, his foreman John Gillespie, and his two apprentices. The latter were furtively eying the eatables, and wondering how much longer the grace which their master was delivering would be. Suddenly there was a knock at the door below. No one stirred until the bailie had finished his grace, before which time the knock had been twice repeated.

"Elspeth, woman," the bailie said when he had brought the grace to an end, "go down below and see who knocks so impatiently; look through the grille before you open the door; these are nor times when one opens to the first stranger who knocks."

The old servant, who had been standing behind her mistress, went downstairs. The door was opened, and they heard an exclamation of surprise at the answer to her question, "Who is it that's knocking as if the house belonged to him?"

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