Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-06
CHAPTER XVII.
The Man in Possession.
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rs that Loauhariot?" asked Sallic.
The wcatherly little steamer on which
she had been travelling along that won-
derful coast since leaving the train had
just rounded a high. blum headland. and
all at once opened out the wide waters OF
Loeb Jura, mirrorlike in the still after
noon among the frowning mountains
about them. Mr.. Jobling and Slyne were
with her the bridge. Capt. Dove stroll
ed up at that moment. his hands I'm his
pockets. his soft felt hat on the back az
his head. a cigar cooked between his teeth
at an equally rakish angle. Salie was
staring straight ahead. with wide. appre,
henslve eyes.
lis that Loquhariot she asked again.
almost in a whisper. she gazed help
lessly at the high battlements of the ana
cient stronghold. which looks from its
lofty promontory down the whole lenett
of the loch. unchanged in its seward
face since the date of Its building. Even
Capt. Dove was impressed by the picture
il made.
That's Your Castle of Loquhariot. Lady
Josceline'' Mr.. Jobling at length replied,
and went on TO tell her its history. learn.
ed from the guide book and locally when
he had been there before.
The Castle of Loquehariot dates back
to the sixteenth century. But for long
ere that a squat. four-square fortalica
had occupied its site. Legend had il that
the grim. gray keep, which today covers
the whole surface Of what was then 4
high, rocky island, but is now "A mere
peninsula of the mainland. was first con.
ceived in the mind of the then Lord Jura,
q plain Scots baron of piratical tenden-
cies who had brought back from the
Spanish main-whither he had sailed in
the company of another OF the same Kid
ney as himself. one Francis Drake-a
yeritable shipload of doubloons and pieces
of eight: and that its ramparts had iirst
been armed and manned. in haste, when
the remains of the great armada cana
drifting southwark from Cape Wrath on
its hapless way home to Spain. after that
same Francis Drake had done with 1t.
Today, at any rate, may be seen in
more than one of the embrasures on
those ramparts some culverin or falconer
salved from the wreck of a great galleou
which went to pieces on the Small Isles.
at the mouth of the loch. And in littla
graveyard on the smallest OF the Small
Isles stands weather-beaten stone, which
SAYS that round about IL lie buried the
bones of a great mort of Spaniards there
inferred by their sworn enemies IN Aus
gust, AID. 15SS.
1t must, undoubtedly. have cost at least
shipload of doubloonS to build the cas-
tie. But the then baron did not build ir
all, for there are towers and wings and
baStionS added on the landward side dur
ing the next two centuries, whose cost
would seem to show that his piraticai
lordship did not leave his descendants
quite penniless. The circular north keep
alone-where the billiard room is nova
days-must, undoubtedly, have cost its
imaginative progenitor a small fortune.
The whole editice as il now stands Is
monument, apparently imperishable. To
the greatness and grandeur. past, pres
ent and to come of the Jura family. And
Sallie staring at il with wide. apprehen-
sive eyes, from the bridge of the busy
little coaster. listening to Mr. JoblinS
descriptive quotations. with Capt. Dove
of the Olive Branch and Jasper Slyne for
company. felt infinitely dispirited by the
knowledge that she and none other was
the present representative OF that proud
race.
CTo be continued tomorrow