Lady Victoria Campbell

108 "PASTORS AND MASTERS"
July 25th.
Blowing hard. Morning with Mary. Writing
out sermon. Back to Bunessan. Fishing and
walking.
July 26th.
Started for Oban. Stopped to see Staffa.
July 27th.
Trawled near Lochnell. Anchored at Lismore.
Brought back to me the time in 1874 ; so much
ground gone over since then. Never, I think, to
be retrod.
The next break in the family life was caused by
the fire at Inveraray Castle in 1877.
There is a characteristic entry of this event in
Lady Victoria's diary : —
Awoke about five by Knowles. Castle on fire ;
all got out safely into stables. Rest of the day
in inn. Fire got under soon. Mrs. Blair died.
The last name was that of the wife of one of the
tenants, whose sick-bed she had been attending.
The fire was to be a landmark in the family life.
It broke the routine of the passing years, and it
proved to be the close of one of the chapters in the
story of their fives.
It may be that the shock, so calmly borne at the
time, or the sudden exposure in the stormy morning,