Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-11-15
A Legend of TicOnderOga'

castle on the banks of the Awe. The
party had broken up and Campbell was
left alone. He was aroused by violent
knocking at the gate, and was surprised
at the appearance of one of his guests,
with torn garments and disheveled hair.
demanding admission. 81 have killed a
man, and am pursued by my enemies.
beseech you to let me in. Swear up
on your klrk-upon the cruachan or hip
where your dirk rests-swear by Ben
Crauchan that you will not betray me-"
Campbell swore and placed the fugitive
in secret place in the house. Present.
ly there was a second knocking at the
gate. 1t was party Of his guests, who
said: "Your cousin Donald has been
killed; where is the murderer p At
this announcement Campbell remember
ed the great oath which he had sworn,
gave an evasive answer and sent off the
pursuers in wrong direction. He then
went to the fugitive and said: "You
have killed my Cousin Donald. ! can
not keep you here" The murderer ap-
pealed to his oath, and pursuaded Camp
bell to let him stay for the night.
Campbell did so and retired to rest. In
the visions of that night the blood-stain-
ed Donald appeared to him with these
words: '1nverawe, Inverawe, blood has
been shed; shield not the murderer.
In the morning Campbell went to his
guest and told him that any further
shelter was impossible. He took him,
however, to cave in Ben Cruachan and
there left him. The night again closed
in and Campbell again slept, and again
the blood-stained Donald appeared.
"lnverawe, Inverawe, blood has been
shed shield not the murderer" On
the morning he went to the cave op the
mountain, and the murderer had fed.
Again at night he slept, and again the
blood-stained Donald rose before him
and said "Inverawe, Inverawe, blood
has been shed. We shall not meet
again till We meet at Ticonderoga." He
awoke in the morning and beheld it was
a dream. But the story of the triple
apparition remained by him, and he Of
ten told it among his kinsmen, asking
always what the ghost could mean by
his mysterious word of their final rem
devious.
The murder Of Donald Campbell oc-
CURED at Barcaldine. Barcaldine cas-
tie stands near to the shore of Loeb
Clieran, and is now and has for long
time been a ruin. Barcaldine house
was in great part in existence at the
time of the story. 1t stands in the
wild country inclosed between Loeb
Crieran and Lock Etive. Down a steep
romantic glen falls the river Deargan
-"the river of the red stain"-into
Loeb Crieran. High rocks rise on each
side of the valley, whence streams de-
scend broken into deep black pools. At
the entrance of this valley is ford over
the Deargan, marked by four or five
huge stepping stones. 1t was when
Donald Campbell reached the second OF
these stones that he was overtaken by
Stuart of Appin, with whom there had
long been mortal feud. Stuart caught
him and slew him on the spot. The
place is called murder ford, and the
deed goes by the name of the murder oi
Loeb Crieran. The tradition has nc
account to render Of what became Of
Donald's body. 1t was never found
and it is conJectured that Stuart of Ap
pin carried it up to the old buria
grounds, which is on the bare hill tor
| Immediately above the ford, and there
inferred it. He then-whether as fol
lowing his original intention, or as ell
deaving to throw himself on the protec
tion of the murdered mans brother
followed the stream, which by a direc
but at the time almost trackless patl
led straight to Inverawe. 1t is callet
Glen Saleach-"the dirth pass "-eithe
I from its associations with the deed 0
= blood or from the dark outrageous char
acter of the woods and rocks. We ca
imagine, like James Fitzjames in tn
o "1Iady of the Lake."
a The broom's tough roots his ladder made;
,, The hazel saplings lent their aid
It till the murderer had reached the top {
the ascent and then plunged down b
q Bunaw, the ford over Doch Etive. an
. thence rushing over the side of the hi
:, reached the house of Duncan Campbell
u In 1853 there broke out the Frenc
e and English war in America, which a
a ter many rebuffs ended in the conque'
of Quebec by General Wolfe. CAM
a bell of lnverawe went out with IL
'e black watch. the forty-second Hlghlar
: regiment, afterwards so famous. Their
q on the eve of an engagement, the Ge
e. eral came to the officers and said: "V
II had better not tell Campbell the nan
e of the fortress which we are to alta,
tomorrow. 1t is Ticonderoga. Let
e. call it Fort George"
~ ~ On the night before the battle Cam