The uneasiness was great among the Stewarts of Appin, whose territory was close pressed by the sea on one side, and by the race of Diarmid on the other.

The Macnaghtens were still more alarmed.

Once they had been the masters of those beautiful valleys through which the Ara and the Shira flow into Loch Fyne.

But the Campbells had prevailed.

The Macnaghtens had been reduced to subjection, and had, generation after generation, looked up with awe and detestation to the neighbouring Castle of Inverary.