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Title: Stories of the Border Marches

Author: John Lang and Jean Lang

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Language: English

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STORIES OF THE BORDER MARCHES

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BY JOHN LANG
AND JEAN LANG

LONDON: T.C. & E.C. JACK LTD.
67 LONG ACRE, W.C., AND EDINBURGH

1916

PREFACE

The quotation that speaks of "Old, unhappy, far-off things, and battles
long ago," has grown now to be hackneyed. Yet, are not they those "old,
unhappy, far-off things" that lure us back from a very commonplace and
utilitarian present, and cause us to cling to the romance of stories
that are well-nigh forgotten?

In these days of rushing railway journeys, of motor cars, telegrams,
telephones, and aeroplanes, we are apt to lose sight of the tales of
more leisurely times, when lumbering stage-coaches and relays of willing
horses were our only means of transit from one kingdom to the other.

Because the "long ago" means to us so infinitely valuable a possession,
we have striven to preserve in print a few of the stories that still
remain--flotsam and jetsam saved from the cruel rush of an overwhelming
tide.

One or two of the tales in this volume are perhaps not quite so familiar
as is the average Border story, and some may contain less of violence
and of bloodshed than is common. Yet it must be owned that it is no easy
task to divorce the Border from its wedded mate, violence.

JOHN LANG.
JEAN LANG.

CONTENTS

THE WHITE LADY OF BLENKINSOPP 1

DICKY OF KINGSWOOD 17

STORM AND TEMPEST 28

GRISELL HOME, A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY HEROINE 45

KINMONT WILLIE 66

IN THE DAYS OF THE '15 82

SEWINGSHIELDS CASTLE, AND THE SUNKEN TREASURE OF
BROOMLEE LOUGH 108

THE KIDNAPPING OF LORD DURIE 115

THE WRAITH OF PATRICK KERR 132

THE LAIDLEY WORM OF SPINDLESTON-HEUGH 136

A BORDERER IN AMERICA