Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE.
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soldier standing beside her. The maid having
found her absent from her room in the morn-
ing, had alarmed the castle, and searching,
they had discovered her in the dungeon, where,
some time previous, a murder had been com-
mitted ; the blood of the victim still staining
the floor, and being visible on the steps that
led to it.
During her stay at this place, a vessel was
procured to convey her to the Hebrides : but
as it lay in Lochurn, at the distance of thirty
miles, she was transported from Castle Tirum
in a four-oared boat, on board of which she
continued during a day and night, meeting
with boisterous weather in passing the various
inlets of the sea that indent the coast.
While the sloop was preparing for her re-
ception, she suffered many hardships, being
removed from place to place, and often lodged
in barns and sheilings, to avoid discovery.
When she was put on board the vessel the
weather was calm, which prevented it sailing
for some days, during which, several gentlemen
went on board, from motives of curiosity, to
see her. She conversed with some of them,
and told them all her misfortunes. One of them,
who had more feeling than the others, promised