Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

320 NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE.
woman. Such was the malignity towards this
good man, that, on his return to the island, he
was anxious that the account he had written at
lady Grange's desire should be destroyed, lest
it might fall into the hands of his enemies, who
would thereby easily effect his ruin. For that
purpose he sent his wife to her ; but lady
Grange, wishing to preserve the document, em-
ployed the subterfuge of burning another piece
of paper, to allay the fears of the minister, and
retained the original, which is extant at the pre-
sent day.
By the kindness and industry of the minis-
ter's daughter, she found an opportunity of con-
cealing two letters, and also the account of her
misfortunes, in balls of yarn, which found their
way to a confidential friend. He applied through
the proper channel for the redress of the hard-
ships to which she had been subjected ; and a
ship of war was sent to remove her from St
Kilda. But prior to its arrival there, an angry
conference had taken place betwixt the lairds of
Chisholm and Macleod, in which the former
accused the latter of being the jailor of a female,
and told him that he would soon unlock her
prison. High words had ensued ; and such had
been the dread of discovery, from the mutual