Life of Flora Macdonald and her adventures with Prince Charles

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suers soon discovered him at a place called Lealt. Young
Allan, however, managed all along to elude the researches of
the Government officers and was never captured, though as
active as any in the case of the Prince. Flora, on the other
hand, with her natural gallantry, made no attempts whatever
to conceal herself, though she was well aware that she was
diligently sought after. After having parted with the Royal
fugitive at Portree, she went to spend a few days with her
mother at Armadale, and then made the best of her way to
her brother's residence at Milton, in the Long Island. She
had been only a few days there, when she received a summons
to appear for examination before Macleod of Talisker, a
Captain of Militia, in the Isle of Skye, to answer all the grave
charges made against her. Her friends became alarmed for
her ultimate safety, and earnestly importuned her to dis-
regard the summons, and to secret herself for a season amid
the mountain fastnesses of her native Isle, as her Prince had
already successfully done. This she peremptorily and in-
dignantly refused to do, saying with her natural magnanimity
of soul that as she had done nothing of which she eithei
repented or felt ashamed, she would appear at any tribunal
or before any Government official, and answer whatever
charges might be brought against her.
Unprotected and alone, she set out for Talisker, and
Captain Macleod having satisfied himself by committing to
writing the various statements which he had elicited from
the gentle culprit before him, and with whom he was pre-
viously well acquainted, permitted her to visit her mother
at Armadale. On her way, she accidentally met with her
stepfather returning home from the Long Island, and before
evening she was seized by a party of soldiers, who conveyed
her a prisoner on board the Furnace, commanded by Captain
Ferguson, General Campbell, who happened to be on