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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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Traffickers
came
and
went
from
Prince
Charles
to
Cluny,
from
Charles
in
the
Convent
of
St.
Joseph
to
Cluny
lurking
on
Ben
Alder.
Kilt
and
tartan
were
worn
at
the
risk
of
life
or
liberty,
in
short,
the
embers
of
the
rising
were
not
yet
extinct.
At
this
time,
in
the
summer
of
1749,
Sergeant
Arthur
Davies,
of
Guise's
regiment,
marched
with
eight
privates
from
Aberdeen
to
Dubrach
in
Braemar,
while
a
corporal's
guard
occupied
the
Spital
of
Glenshee,
some
eight
miles
away.
"A
more
waste
tract
of
mountain
and
bog,
rocks
and
ravines,
without
habitations
of
any
kind
till
you
reach
Glenclunie,
is
scarce
to
be
met
with
in
Scotland,"
says
Sir
Walter.
The
sergeant's
business
was
the
general
surveillance
of
the
country
side.
He
was
a
kindly
prosperous
man,
liked
in
the
country,
fond
of
children,
newly
married,
and
his
wife
bore
witness
"that
he
and
she
lived
together
in
as
great
amity
and
love
as
any
couple
could
do,
and
that
he
never
was
in
use
to
stay
away
a
night
from
her".
The
sergeant
had
saved
fifteen
guineas
and
a
half;
he
carried
the
gold
in
a
green
silk
purse,
and
was
not
averse
to
displaying
it.
He
wore
a
silver
watch,
and
two
gold
rings,
one
with
a
peculiar
knob
on
the
bezel.
He
had
silver
buckles
to
his
brogues,
silver
knee-buckles,
two
dozen
silver
buttons
on
a
striped
lute-string
waistcoat,
and
he
carried
a
gun,
a
present
from
an
officer
in
his
regiment.
His
dress,
on
the
fatal
28th
of
September,
was
"a
blue
surtout
coat,
with
a
striped
silk
vest,
and
teiken
breeches
and
brown
stockings".
His
hair,
of
"a
dark
mouse
colour,"
was
worn
in
a
silk
ribbon,
his
hat
was
silver
laced,
and
bore
his
initials
cut
in
the
felt.
Thus
attired,
"a
pretty
man,"
Sergeant
Davies
said
good-bye
to
his
wife,
who
never
saw
him
again,
and
left
his
lodgings
at
Michael
Farquharson's
early
on
28th
September.
He
took
four
men
with
him,
and
went
to
meet
the
patrol
from
Glenshee.
On
the
way
he
met
John
Growar
in
Glenclunie,
who
spoke
with
him
"about
a
tartan
coat,
which
the
sergeant
had
observed
him
to
drop,
and
after
strictly
enjoining
him
not
to
use
it
again,
dismissed
him,
instead
of
making
him
prisoner".
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