on>D. K. Broster
The Jacobite Trilogy: The Flight of the Heron, The Gleam in the North & The Dark Mile
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2021 OK Publishing
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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,
