A carefully guarded portmanteau carried by a nervous traveller named Morris is stolen, and this novel's protagonist is suspected.
A carefully guarded portmanteau carried by a nervous traveller named Morris is stolen, and this novel's protagonist is suspected. It turns out that Morris works for the government, and the portmanteau holds gold to pay English soldiers. The protagonist, Frank, sent to live with relatives in Northumberland at Osbaldistone Manor, flees to Scotland, and becomes embroiled in pro- and anti-Jacobite intrigues, but is saved by the title character in, for 10  points, what Walter Scott novel named after the historical "Robin Hood of Scotland" of the proscribed clan MacGregor?
A carefully guarded portmanteau carried by a nervous traveller named Morris is stolen, and this novel's protagonist is suspected.
Rob Roy