on>D. K. Broster
The Jacobite Trilogy
The Flight of the Heron, The Gleam in the North & The Dark Mile
e-artnow, 2021
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Table of Contents
THE FLIGHT OF THE HERON
“But the heron’s flight is that of a
celestial messenger bearing important, if
not happy, tidings to an expectant people.”
—“V.” As You See It.
Table of Contents
Prologue. A Promise of Fair Weather
IV. ‘Your Debtor, Ewen Cameron’
V. The Heron’s Flight is Ended
PROLOGUE
A PROMISE OF FAIR WEATHER
(1)
The sun had been up for a couple of hours, and now, by six o’clock, there was scarcely a cloud in the sky; even the peaked summit of Ben Tee, away to the north-east, had no more than the faintest veil floating over it. On all the western slopes the transfiguring light, as it crept lower and lower, was busy picking out the patches of July bell-heather and painting them an even deeper carmine; and the mountains round were smiling (where sometimes they frowned) on Loch na h-Iolaire, to-day a shining jewel which to-morrow might be a mere blot of grey steel. It was going to be a very fine day, and in the West of Scotland such are none too plentiful.
Loch
