There is, without a doubt, some uncanny agency there." The girl laughed outright.

"I do declare, Walter, that you believe in these foolish traditions," she said.
"Well, I'm a Scot, you see, darling, and a little superstition is perhaps permissible, especially in connection with such a mystery as the strange disappearance of Cardinal Setoun." "Then, tell me the real story as you know it," she urged.

"I'm much interested.

I only heard about the Whispers quite recently." "The historical facts, so far as I can recollect reading them in the book in question," he said, "are to the effect that the Most Reverend James Cardinal Setoun, Archbishop of St.Andrews, Chancellor of the Kingdom, was in the middle of the sixteenth century directing all his energies towards consolidating the Romish power in Scotland, and not hesitating to resort to any crime which seemed likely to accomplish his purpose.

Many were the foul assassinations and terrible tortures upon innocent persons performed at his orders.