Chapter I: Front Matter

TRAGIC ROMANCES

RE-ISSUE OF THE SHORTER
STORIES OF FIONA MACLEOD
REARRANGED, WITH
ADDITIONAL
TALES

COPYRIGHTED IN THE UNITED
STATES: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

By the Same Author.

PHARAIS: A Romance of the Isles.

(FRANK MURRAY, Derby.)
(STONE & KIMBALL, New York.)

THE MOUNTAIN LOVERS: A Romance.

(JOHN LANE, London.)
(ROBERTS BROS., Boston.)

THE SIN-EATER: and other Tales.

(PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES, Edinburgh.)
(STONE & KIMBALL, New York.)

THE WASHER OF THE FORD: and other Legendary Moralities.

(PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES, Edinburgh.)
(STONE & KIMBALL, New York.)

GREEN FIRE: A Romance.

(ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO., London.)
(HARPERS, New York.)

FROM THE HILLS OF DREAM: Mountain Songs and Island Runes.

(PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES, Edinburgh.)

VOLUME
THREE

TRAGIC
ROMANCES

BY
Fiona Macleod

PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES
THE OUTLOOK TOWER·CASTLE HILL·EDINBURGH

TRAGIC ROMANCES

“It is Destiny, then, that is the Protagonist in the Celtic Drama … And it is Destiny, that sombre Demogorgon of the Gael, whose boding breath, whose menace, whose shadow glooms so much of the remote life I know, and hence glooms also this book of interpretations: for pages of life must either be interpretative or merely documentary, and these following pages have for the most part been written as by one who repeats, with curious insistence, a haunting, familiar, yet ever wild and remote air, whose obscure meanings he would fain reiterate, interpret.”

(From the PROLOGUE to _The Sin-Eater_.)

CONTENTS

PAGE

MORAG OF THE GLEN 11

THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN 61

THE SIN-EATER 113

THE NINTH WAVE 167

THE JUDGMENT O’ GOD 185

GREEN BRANCHES 201

THE ARCHER 231

_NOTE_

In this volume all the tales, except the first and last, are re-issued from _The Sin-Eater_. “Morag of the Glen” is reprinted from the November issue of _The Savoy_; “The Archer” has not hitherto appeared in print. As the other tales have not been reset, they are, except in the matter of pagination and arrangement, necessarily unaltered.

_MORAG OF THE GLEN_

MORAG OF THE GLEN