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The Adventures of iP/>f &*> mm^x& *S¥'«*3*= i=^ ^ W$M W0JfJy<& v m, af^& I "— %-?fl -V ^af %r : jlgggllS^ Si Bv James Grant 4DON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SON'S* NOVELS AT TWO SHILLINGS. By LORD LYTTON. Maltravers. Novel. Vol. 2. Pelhamt [ Ernest ^J_My Paulj Eugt 1 : Last jwith Rien Leih _JhI_ J tli jSSi y Last $ ^sb£^ • The $>&£#£r The yUKuSS^ Ji The Ir» -lme\^^£*m n. Vale N The Elle f Mel James g.^RAFF. Wh JUltimoue d/;ry Tlu Ma Vic \ a / ^^^»^ ^^r>\. ^^W -^r Ro; nice. The' Ici T-. So K:. !.-. I/.W. Bot ( Jan ] :l,t ( n iol. rhi [)'.1IM s Lef \Yi,h. ....... v nil I'.nsi^n. \ *Jti f,. -my Mary of 1.. rrainc. Captain of the Guard. Adventures of Rob i (Jhver Ellis ; or, Tlu l.etty Hyde's Lovers. Roy. Fu siliers. Cavaliers of Fortune. 1 .'is. Id tile Re •dUr.i^m Phantom Regiment. Second to None. 'he Oucen' -, Cadet. Pu blished b y George Routlcdgc and Sons NOVELS AT TWO SHILLINGS.— Continued. By FIELDING and SMOLLETT. Fielding. Smollett. Tom Jones. Roderick Random. Joseph Andrews. 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SECOND TO WOKE. THE CONSTABLE OE PRANCE. THE PHANTOM REGIMENT. THE KING'S OWN BORDEEEES. THE WHITE COCKADE. PIEST LOVE AND LAST LOVE. GEORGE KOUTLEDGE AND SONS, THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. The body of Colin Bane MacGregor to face page 18 2. " He showered blow after blow upon MacEae " 48 3. " Waving his bare blade in a circle between her and the rest, who dared not advance " 81 4. " One night they were roused by some Travellers noisily demanding shelter " 145 5. " Clenching his right hand, he would have struck the Duke" 155 6. Rob Eoy and the English Captain 213 7. " He sprang upon them and cut down two " 245 8. "The MacGregors were protected by ridges of rock"... 308 CONTENTS. colin and oina page 1 THE CATERANS 6 THE ALARM 13 THE HOLT STEEL 16 THE BED MACGREGOR 28 THE PURSUIT 36 HAND TO HAND 44 THE BATTLE OE GLENFRUIN 51 THE DEVASTATION OE KIPI'EN 60 THE DUEL 68 ROB GOES TO ENGLAND 71 THE GIPSIES. 76 vi CONTENTS. INVERSNAID PILLAGED page 82 ROB AND THE DUKE 90 DESOLATION 97 BOB TAKES THE TOWEE OP GARDEN 104 THE JACOBITE BOND Ill THE DESPATCHES CAPTURED HO ABERUCHAIL 121 ROB ROY RETREATS 129 JOINS KING JAMES , 134 INVERSNAID GARRISONED 142 THE SNARE 149 WILL HE ESCAPE ? 158 LITTLE RONALD 167 PAUL CRUBACH 174 THE HOUSE OP INVOCATION 180 ROB rot's CAVE 187 THE STORMING OP INVERSNAID 193 THE PIGHT AT ABERFOYLE 204 ROB SEIZES THE RENTS OP MONTROSE 219 CONTENTS. Vli •KILLEARN CARRIED OFF page 224 killearn's fate 228 greumoch taken 233 bob's narrow escape 238 a weird story 247 the haunted well 255 rob roy taken 258 the fords of frew 263 seaforth's messenger 270 rob's march to glensheii. 277 a strange meeting 283 major huske's revenge 287 the battle of glensheil 291 the knight of malta 298 eilan donan 306 THE harper's ransom 313 MORRAR NA SHEAN, OR THE LORD OF THE VENISON 321 GUILT AND REMORSE OF MORRAR NA SHEAN .... 335 THE RUINED HOUSE IN GLENSTRAE 349 Vlll CONTENTS. HE FIGHTS THE LAIRD OF BARKA page 356 INVERNENTIE PUNISHED 369 ATTACKED BY THE DUKE OE ATHOLE 374 THE FINAL ATTEMPT OP ATHOLE 381 ROB ROT IN LONDON 388 THE DUELS WITH INYEENAHYLE AND ARDSHEIL. 392 THE CLOSING SCENE 399 THE ADVENTTJEES OF KOB EOY. CHAPTER I. COLIN AXD OIXA. The sun of a September evening — we need not say in what year—was shining down a wild and lonely glen, a few miles eastward from the head of Loch Lomond, where a boy and a girl sat on the slope of the green hill-side, watching a herd of fifteen red-eyed, small, and shaggy black cattle, with curly fronts and long sharp horns, that were browsing mid-leg deep amid the long-leaved fern. The place was one of stern and solemn grandeur. Leaping from ledge to ledge, and foaming between the grey and time-worn rocks, a mountain torrent, red and fierce, swept down the steep slope of the narrow glen, now disappearing in deep corries, that were covered by dwarf birch, hazel, and alder trees, and elsewhere emerging in mist and spray, white as the thistle's beard, till it reached the lake which reposed under the shadows of the vast Ben Lomond, whose summits were hidden in grey mi it. 2 THE ADVENTURES OF BOB EOY. Ben Lawers, which, towers above the source of the Tay, and Ben More, that looks down on the Dochart with its floating isle, are there ; but the king of these is Ben Lomond, a name which means in English " the hill of the lake full of isles," for four-and-twenty stud the loch below ; and the bare scalp of that mighty mountain rises to the height of 3,300 feet above the water. There the wild winds that came in sudden gusts down the glens, furrowed up the bosom of the loch, causing its waters to ripple on the silent shore, and on its verdant isles, with a weird and solemn sound. But here where our story opens, the shrill note of the curlew, as he suddenly sprang aloft from the thick soft heather, made one start ; while the rush of the many white watercourses that poured over the whin stone rocks, and woke the silence, was sharp and hissing. The setting sun shed a flood of purple light along the steep-sided glen, making the heather seem absolutely crimson. The boy and girl, Colin Bane, the son of a widow, and Oina MacAleister, belonged to the clachan, or village—the smoking chimneys of which alone indi- cated its locality—about three miles off; for the walls of the little cottages so closely resembled the grey rocks of the glen, and their roofs, thatched with heather, blended so nearly with the mountain- side, that, except for the forty little columns of white vapour that ascended into the clear evening sky, there was nothing cbo to indicate a human habitation.