The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-17
The two rcen were about to fall uPon- each other with their swords

xarb with the eagles feather waving
 frofn his 'bounet," he looked the part
 his ambition prompted him to play up-
 on the stage of affairs and a man wor-
 thy to command as he did the unques-
 tioning obedience even to iife ana deatn
 of his elan.
 caIlum Beg, a handsome Highland
 boy, who acted as page, carried his
 chiefs cIaymore and his hunting
 pouch, without which he seldom stirred
 abroad.
 Wayeriey's imagination was captured
 at once by the magnificent chieftain'
 and they had become friends by the
 time they had reached the rude castle
 of Vich Ian Vohr. Fergus, though
 the existing government permitted him
 to exercise his feudal rights, held an
 EarTs patent which he hoped to make public when the King should trJoy
 his own again. At the castle "f Vich
 Ian Vohr Waverley was entertained
 with the semi splendor which
 at that time characterized the noid oI an ambitious Highland chief, and there he met. and of course fell In love with, 1 Flora MacIvor, the chieftains sister Flora MacIvor had been reared un- der the especial care of the Princess
 sobieski, Queen of that throneless mon-
 arch, the "Old Preteuder," King of Great Britain, France, and rieland by
 the Grace of God but by the VIII ol men," She was a most beautiful young l ladv and bore a striking resemblance | to her borther, except that the naughty l and somewhat stern regularity If Fer ! gus's features appeared beautifully softened in those of Flora,
 Her whole heart was wrapped Up in l one idea--4the return of the exiied lam 1 fly of Stuart-and for that she was | willing to devote her own and her 1 brothers life and the lives of their clansmen to the last drop of the blood
 when. under the spell of his TO- mantle surroundings and the fascina- l tIons of Flora MaeIvors Waverley had 1 prolonged his stay at the castle ioI | three weeks, he proposed Tor the hand | of the chieftain's sister--and was re- | jected. though Fergus, knowing the | social position of the young English ! man and the great wealth to which ] he was heir, bade him not to take the
 rejection as final, but to hope fof->>a
 reconsideration when events of which
 he hiinted tn enear approach should l have transpired.
 1 Soon after this Fergus, at the head of four or five hundred of his clans men, started of journey sttill further into the Highlands, where he was to meet some of his fellow chiefJains ai a grand hunting, and Waverley VI ent along as his guest. At the appointed rendezvous there appeared several pow erful Highland chiefs, accompanied by
 their vassals in such numbers as to amour ito small army. In fact, there was more the appearance of a military gathering than of a simple hunting. But some hasting they did do, and on one of these occasions Waverley had the misfortune to Lpraln
 his ankle badly.
 Fergus had him sent to the house of a kinsman in sthe neighborhood. On the sixth day Fergus reappeaSed, and the young Captain, being Ly that time able to travel, the two proceeded to Glennaquoich.
 This hunting, though WaverIey did not know 1t at the time, was In real ity an excuse for a gathering of Yich Ian Vohr's neighborlng chiefs and their vassals to take measures for joining Prince Charley, who, with only seven followers, had already landed on the coast of Scotland and raised his royal standard on the Braes of Mar; and all
 the Scottish Highlands were swarm ing with the plaided warriors of inc clans gathering around the white flag | with the red cross, under which Charles
 Edward Stuart had come 10 aght for
 the throne of his ancestorS
 No word of this had. however, been
 allowed to reach Waverley in the Fe- clusion of the castle of MacIvor, and
 he was astonished and dismayed when, upon returning fro mthe hunting and opening the mall which awaited him at the castle, a letter from Colonel Gardiner sternly representing him for f forsaking his allegiance, negleetine l to answer the repeated letters which | the Colonel had, he said, dispatched l to him and ordering him to reioin his