Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE. 289
guard, awoke, and coming to the door, was sur-
prised to see that the guests had escaped. He
did all in his power to detain them, and threat-
ened to blow a horn he held in his hand, as a
signal to his friends, who, he said, were not far
off; but Macdonald immediately seized and
bound him, along with the housekeeper, to pre-
vent their giving any alarm.
The party now set off with all possible expe-
dition, to the great disappointment of Lady
Grange, who had had every expectation of being
rescued from her conductors, of whose plans she
was ignorant, but of whom she had reason to
dread the worst. They travelled with great
haste, and by daybreak were beyond the risk of
falling in the way of the freebooters.
When they left the castle, the moon had set
behind the mountains that rose to the south, and
as the morning was dark and cloudy, it was with
considerable difficulty that they found their way
across a lone and rugged muir, which extended
far to the north. The guides, however, had often
traversed those regions, and though there was
no path, they went on with tolerable accuracy.
Twice, indeed, they were wrong; but the moment
the clouds dispersed, and gave them a sight of
the polar star, they again found the proper
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