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to them again in these pages, I may here state that
Farquhar was killed while fomenting a mutiny among the
negroes, and that Torquil and Gillies made good their
escape, and joined their families in the United States.
Throughout their trial, old Dugald Macilvaine was present,
and took an intense interest in the proceedings. General
commiseration was expressed for him, as he stood and
beheld his sons led away to jail, preparatory to expatriation,
which was practically fcfl- life. His feelings must have been
embittered by the consideration that he himself had trained
and instructed them in those evil courses which, at length,
drew the vengeance of the law upon their heads. Notwith-
standing that the afternoon was far advanced before these
trials were finished, most of the parties from Duncairn who
were present, set out for home immediately, although their
course lay for thirty or forty miles across a pathless
mountain land ;
others remained in town until early the
following morning. As the lambing season was com-
mencing, Mark Teviot was in haste to get back to
Glenbeltane. His shepherds were among those who
had first set out, and early next day he himself
took his departure for home. Having ridden for
many hours across hills and morasses, and forded numberless
streams, at length he attained the summit of a ridge which
commanded a view of the valley of the Goy, where he was
arrested by piteous groans, which proceeded from a hollow on
his right. He at once divined that a fellow creature was in
agony close beside him, and hastily dismounting from his
horse, he led it in the direction from whence the sounds
came to his ear. In a few moments, he perceived Dugald
Macilvaine lying on the ground in great pain.
It turned out that the hoary reiver had sprained his
ankle, had crawled into the hollow for shelter from the
biting wind, and was now utterly unable to move. Xo
sooner did the sufferer perceive the presence of one whom
he regarded as his mortal foe, than he broke out into a
torrent of furious imprecation against him, as being the