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Chapter I: Foreword

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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 clatter of arms (_see_ p. 43) Frontispiece

"Madam," said he, "I crave your pardon for this seeming incivility"

"I am the Prince," said the man upon the horse

He peered through the heather upon the beach

The holding of the pass

He was in full highland dress, with a claymore at his side

He watched one of the men unsheath his dirk and make a gesture significant enough

With a great rattle of chains the gibbet's burden dropped with a clatter

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