ALL ABOUT ROB WERE HOARSE CRIES, GROANS, EDDYING SMOKE,
AND THE ROAR AND CLATTER OF ARMS.
MUCKLE JOHN
BY
FREDERICK WATSON
AUTHOR OF "SHALLOWS"
CONTAINING EIGHT FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR BY ALLAN STEWART
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
SOHO SQUARE
Published September 1914
TO
MRS. STEPHEN WILLIAMSON
MY FATHER'S FRIEND
AND MINE
CONTENTS
CHAP.
FOREWORD
I. HOW PRINCE CHARLIE CAME TO INVERNESS
II. THE COMING OF MUCKLE JOHN
III. THE END OF THE JACOBITE CAUSE
IV. FRENCH GOLD
V. LOCH ARKAIG
VI. THE WATCHERS BY NIGHT
VII. BURIED TREASURE
VIII. FLIGHT
IX. THE TURN OF THE SCALES
X. THE LAST FLICKER
XI. A NARROW ESCAPE
XII. IN THE HANDS OF THE DUKE
XIII. MISS MACPHERSON COMES TO FORT AUGUSTUS
XIV. MUCKLE JOHN SHOWS HIS HAND
XV. "A MUIR-FOWL SNARED"
XVI. THE CAVE IN GLENMORISTON
XVII. THE HOLDING OF THE PASS
XVIII. THE WHISTLE OF THE BANSHEE
XIX. THE DANCE OF THE MACKENZIES
XX. AN UNWILLING ACCOMPLICE
XXI. THE CAPTURE OF LORD LOVAT
XXII. MISS MACPHERSON AND THE DUKE
XXIII. THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR MEN
XXIV. THE END OF A TALE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR
All about Rob were hoarse cries, groans,eddying smoke, and the roar and clatterof arms (see p. 43) Frontispiece
"Madam," said he, "I crave your pardon forthis seeming incivility"