Chapter I: Front Matter

DAVID BALFOUR

Being Memoirs of his Adventures at home and Abroad

THE SECOND PART: _In which are set forth his Misfortunes anent the_ APPIN _Murder; his Troubles with Lord Advocate_ GRANT; _Captivity on the Bass Rock; Journey into Holland and France; and Singular Relations with_ JAMES MORE DRUMMOND _or_ MACGREGOR, _a Son of the notorious_ ROB ROY, _and his Daughter_ CATRIONA

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND NOW SET FORTH BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1905

COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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DEDICATION TO CHARLES BAXTER, _WRITER TO THE SIGNET_.

MY DEAR CHARLES,

It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and, my David having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company's office, must expect his late reappearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explorations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our native city some seed of the elect; some long-legged, hot-headed youth must repeat to-day our dreams and wanderings of so many years ago; he will relish the pleasure, which should have been ours, to follow among named streets and numbered houses the country walks of David Balfour, to identify Dean, and Silvermills, and Broughton, and Hope Park and Pilrig, and poor old Lochend--if it still be standing, and the Figgate Whins--if there be any of them left; or to push (on a long holiday) so far afield as Gillane or the Bass. So, perhaps, his eye shall be opened to behold the series of the generations, and he shall weigh with surprise his momentous and nugatory gift of life.

You are still--as when first I saw, as when I last addressed you--in the venerable city which I must always think of as my home. And I have come so far; and the sights and thoughts of my youth pursue me; and I see like a vision the youth of my father, and of his father, and the whole stream of lives flowing down there, far in the north, with the sound of laughter and tears, to cast me out in the end, as by a sudden freshet, on those ultimate islands. And I admire and bow my head before the romance of destiny.

R.L.S.

VAILIMA,
UPOLU,
SAMOA,
1902.

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CONTENTS

Part I

_THE LORD ADVOCATE_

I. A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK
II. THE HIGHLAND WRITER
III. I GO TO PILRIG
IV. LORD ADVOCATE PRESTONGRANGE
V. IN THE ADVOCATE'S HOUSE
VI. UMQHILE THE MASTER OF LOVAT
VII. I MAKE A FAULT IN HONOUR
VIII. THE BRAVO
IX. THE HEATHER ON FIRE
X. THE RED-HEADED MAN
XI. THE WOOD BY SILVERMILLS
XII. ON THE MARCH AGAIN WITH ALAN
XIII. GILLANE SANDS
XIV. THE BASS
XV. BLACK ANDIE'S TALE OF TOD LAPRAIK
XVI. THE MISSING WITNESS
XVII. THE MEMORIAL
XVIII. THE TEE'D BALL
XIX. I AM MUCH IN THE HANDS OF THE LADIES
XX. I CONTINUE TO MOVE IN GOOD SOCIETY

Part II

_FATHER AND DAUGHTER_

XXI. THE VOYAGE INTO HOLLAND
XXII. HELVOETSLUYS
XXIII. TRAVELS IN HOLLAND
XXIV. FULL STORY OF A COPY OF HEINECCIUS
XXV. THE RETURN OF JAMES MORE
XXVI. THE THREESOME
XXVII. A TWOSOME
XXVIII. IN WHICH I AM LEFT ALONE
XXIX. WE MEET IN DUNKIRK
XXX. THE LETTER FROM THE SHIP
XXXI. CONCLUSION

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