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DUNCAN CAMPBELL, Editor, "Northern Chronicle,"
ALEXANDER MACBAIN, M.A., F.S.A.Scot.
No. 41. AUGUST, 1892. Vol. IV.
A TREACHER(3US FRIEND.
lU" BEINN-NA-CAILLICH, EDINBUR(iH.
EDWARD DILLON and Arthur Bothwell were
Lieutenants in one of our Scottish regiments, and
were boon companions. Dillon belonged to Dublin, while
Bothwell's ancestral home was in Forfarshire, Scotland
it being situated in one of these pleasant glens, or vallc}-s,
stretching along the eastern borders of Perthshire. Shortly
before the outbreak of the Soudan war, Arthur Bothwell
invited his friend Dillon to his house in Scotland, where
the\- remained together for a couple of months. At times
the}- wandered among the Grampian hills, cnjoxTug the
sport of chasing the moorfowl and the deer ; on other
occasions \-isiting among the neighbouring families. One
of the first families into which Arthur introduced his friend
was that of which his affianced bride, Mar}- Murray, was a
member. Miss Murra}- was an heiress, she being an only
child ; but
she had far greater attractions in the e}-cs of
her lo\er, being not onl}- beautiful and accomplished, but
faithful and affectionate— possessed, in fact, of most of
those qualities which adorn the mind of a noble woman.
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