. In love and war : a romance. LONDON: RICHAED BENTLEY AND SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1877. {All rights reserved.) iV QZ2> x/.l CONTENTS OF VOL. I. ^ CHAPTER X I. The Hot Trod ... II. Foreshadows ... III. The Broken Sword IV. The Disguise ... V. The Cochrane Places VI. The Eiot VII. The Priory of Kells V VIII. The Summons n IX. At Bay ... >0 > X. The Abbots Court XI. Between Two Fires XII. Snares XIII. Through the Wood XIV. In Chase XV. The Druids Circle <r i PAGE1 17 30 40 65 83 104 123 137 164 185 206 230 258 279 IN LOVE AND WAE. CHAPTER I. I?- THE HOT TROD. Hes taen her by the
. In love and war : a romance. LONDON: RICHAED BENTLEY AND SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1877. {All rights reserved.) iV QZ2> x/.l CONTENTS OF VOL. I. ^ CHAPTER X I. The Hot Trod ... II. Foreshadows ... III. The Broken Sword IV. The Disguise ... V. The Cochrane Places VI. The Eiot VII. The Priory of Kells V VIII. The Summons n IX. At Bay ... >0 > X. The Abbots Court XI. Between Two Fires XII. Snares XIII. Through the Wood XIV. In Chase XV. The Druids Circle <r i PAGE1 17 30 40 65 83 104 123 137 164 185 206 230 258 279 IN LOVE AND WAE. CHAPTER I. I?- THE HOT TROD. Hes taen her by the milk-white by the grass-green mounted her high behind himsel,At her kinsmen speard na leave. Katherine Janfarie. RING out the hounds, Nicol,shouted Sir Hugh Janfarie, theKnight of Johnstone Tower,to his second son; and then to one of hismen: You fetch me a burning sod. Itshall be a Hot Trod, and by the Sacred 1. A IN LOVE AND WAR. Mother a hotter trod than has beenknown on the Border this while. He mounted his horse and took his placeat the head of his men; a leash of houndswas brought from the kennel, and the partystarted at a round pace. Nicol rode in advance, carrying a burn-ing turf on the point of a spear, to denoteto all men that they had declared hue andcry against a marauder, and that they werein hot pursuit. The fiery symbol of theirpurpose, according to the law of theMarches, protected them from interruptionso long as they molested none save theenemy they pursued. The same law doomedto death any who might attempt to bar theway of those who, with proper reason,were following the track of an offender. Katherine Janfarie, Sir Hughs onlydaughter, and Sir Bertrand Gordon, theLaird of Lamington, were the offenders,and the objects of this fierce pursuit. THE HOT TROD. 3 Sir Hugh had that day forced hisdaughter into marriage with Sir RobertCochrane, the chief favourite of the king,James III
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