ed him,
and I was able, with the help of several men, to carry him along with
our party.

We made good our retreat, and when several days later I was in the
main camp of the army, I went to the quarters where the prisoners were
detained, and there I again met Farquharson.

"Captain," said he, smiling, for he had almost recovered from his
wound, "there is no entering a contest against you; fortune is always
on your side."

"My turn will come," I answered; "but is there anything I can do for
you?"

"I am afraid not, unless you bribe the guards to let me escape."

"That would be clear against the articles of war," I replied. We fell
to talking, and then it was I heard of the Tory and his daughter.

"It was about Christmas time," said Farquharson, "that the King sent a
message over the sea, granting him a pardon for the part he had taken
in '45, for you know he was out then. The Sea Raven was about to
clear in a week for Glasgow, and a sudden longing seemed to seize him
to see once more the dash of the waters through the Braes of Mar and
the heather-crowned hills of old Aberdeen; and so, within a week, they
had sailed away; and as he left he said to me: 'A revolt drove me from
old Scotland; another sends me back again. I wonder where fortune will
end my days.' It is a strange fortune that has followed him through
life."

"It is, indeed," I replied.

So they sailed away over the seas, gone back to their own land and
people; and between that land and mine burned high the flame of war.
But through the flame and across the broad stretch of the waters, I
saw the form of the maid beckoning me on, and though my hope was
well-nigh gone, I buckled tight my sword-belt and doggedly went
on,--went on, through the long march to the southward, the toil, the
hunger, and the defeat of the Camden campaign.

The great triumph of Eutaw Springs and Cowpens, as we drove back
Cornwallis from the hill country to the shore, rolled back the tide of
invasion and drowned it in the sea.

A year went by, bringing me adventures not a few, and with the
adventures came wounds and honours; and when there came the news of
the leaguer of Yorktown, it found me a full Colonel in the army of the
South.

It was not my fortune to be present at that last great feat of our
arms, when the great General struck the blow that freed us for ever
from the tyranny of the King.

But when the news came down to us in the savannahs of the South we
hailed it w