Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

294 NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE.
bad, that it had not unappropriately been named
" the devil's staircase," and it was not until the
night was far advanced, that they arrived at the
side of Lochiel. There they were afraid to halt,
lest they might be detained by the garrison of
Fort-William, in the neighbourhood of which
they now were ; military being constantly sta-
tioned there, who were originally placed by the
angry and suspicious king William, who attemp-
ted to accomplish by force, what his temper
would not permit him to do by mildness.
The night was serene and clear, and they im-
mediately procured a boat with an able crew,
who speedily rowed them to the head of the
loch, where they arrived by the break of day.
At this place they borrowed a horse, having left
their own with the owner of the boat, and having
placed lady Grange upon it, soon after got to
Glenfinnan, where no other shelter could be ob-
tained, than that which an open barn could
afford. Poor lady Grange was by this time in a
state of insensibility, the fatigue she had under-
gone being more than her frame could support,
so that the story which her fellow-travellers still
reported of her insanity, had more than ever the
appearance of reality.
The miserable condition to which she was