Aunt Janet used to tell me when I was a youngster how MacKelpie of Croom laid his sword before Prince Charlie.

I hope I may tell her of this; it would make her so proud and happy.

Don't imagine, sir, that I am thinking myself a Charles Edward.

It is only that Aunt Janet is so good to me that I might well think I was." Sir Colin bowed grandly: "Rupert Sent Leger, my dear niece is a woman of great discretion and discernment.

And, moreover, I am thinking she has in her some of the gift of Second Sight that has been a heritage of our blood.