He was pent up amidst the beleaguered defiles of Cartland Craigs, sworn to extricate the helpless families of his followers, or to perish with them.

This knight was accompanied by none but men; and his kind eyes shone in too serene a luster to be the mirrors of the disturbed soul of the suffering chief of Ellerslie.

"Ah! then," murmured she to herself, "are there two men in Scotland who will speak thus ?" She looked up in his face.

The plumes of his bonnet shaded his features; but she saw they were paler than on his entrance, and a strange expression of distraction agitated their before composed lines.

His eyes were bent to the ground as he proceeded: "I am the servant of my fellow-creatures--command me and my few faithful followers; and if it be in the power of such small means to succor you or yours, I am ready to answer for their obedience.