The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-23

ceive that you are hot and lacking in prudence said he, but you are also honest and chivalrous. I have observed you in the castle when you thought I did not. can employ you, and if you are faithful your page's dress may be turned into the armor of a knight.
 So. given in charge to Adam Wood cock when that worthy had sobered up next day, Roland was sent to Edin- burg with a packet for the Earl of Murray. The youth wah filed with all the wonder and pleasure of boy who beholds for the first time a great city; yet he peered under every hood he passed In the High street, hoping that beneath 1t he might spy the features of Catherine Seyton. AS Adam and Rol- and traversed the main thorough fare of Aud Reekie" they saw two nobles, followed by their armed retainers, ap- proach from opposite directions. Each refused to the other the "crown of the causeway' and the usual fight took place. One side lustily shouted: "A Leslie! A Leslie!" while the other as strenuously cried out: "A Seytonl A Seyton Set on! Set on" The name of Seyton was enough for Roland ana, in flash, the impulsive youth was fighting on the side of the Seytons. stopped @the fray, but not before many had been wounded. among them the Lord Seyton, whose life Roland had tho good fortune to save from tho thrust of Leslie. -s
 Scarcely had Adam done rating tho boy for his foolhardness when Roland, with a start threw himself from his horse and darted down side street in pursuit of a female figure in which he recognized house into which he disappeared and was like to have been killed for his pains had not the Lord Seyton recognized in him the youth who had befriended him and bestowed upon him his thanks and golden chain which he took from his cap. Roland reported to regent and was sent to be a page in the house hold of the Queen. then imprisoned in the castle of Lochleven under the guard ianship of the regents mother, the grim Lady Douglas. Having been reared in the household of that Calvinistic knight, Halbert Glendinning, and by him rec-i ommended Roland was sent with the idea of his acting as a spy upon the Queen When he had been taken into the service of Halbert Magdalen Graeme had said: Twice now has fate thrown this youth into the service of the house of Avenel: let them look to the conse- quences When the saturnine Morton saw Roland in the presence chamber of the regent he said to Murray: If this youth resembles as much in craft of disposition as he does in eye and in brow a certain old friend of ours there may be a inference between what he is and what he seems-I mean Julian of Avenel" The speeches meant nothing to Roland at the time-but afterward he remembered them.
 The night before Roland started on his journey to Lochleven there came to the inn at which he stopped a youth in a purple mantle and dressed like young lord The young man swaggered and lashed the interiors with his riding whip when they stood in the way. He. swore the most fashionable oaths and reffled it like any courier. And in this youth Roland. to his astonishment, recognized Catherine Seyton! "Ho. Sir Holly-top," said the ruffler, "I would speak with you" Roland stood amazed. Do they understand Scotch in your country?'' he went on. II think we are not total strangers to each other.'' ventured Ro- land We must have met in dreams then" was the reply. step hither out