CHAPTER VII 



A SCHERZO 



I.— THE DUKE 



was in the olden time when Geordie 

 - , Gow was still at the Dunalastair. 

 r the uninitiated, I may remark 

 that Mr. George Gow is now 

 the proprietor of a fine hotel 

 on the shores of the loch. 

 But in those early days there 

 were only the Bunrannoch 

 and the Dunalastair Hotels, 

 situate on opposite banks of 

 the Tummel, adjacent to the 

 fine old bridge of Kinloch-Ran- 

 noch. It was from that bridge that Craigie and 

 little Johnny narrowly escaped being seen with 

 complete fishing panoply, one fine Sabbath morn, 

 by the Elders of the village, as their boat was 

 being swiftly drawn down the stream ever nearer 

 to its dangerous proximity. 



