ask in it, and
find content. It may be so with this lady if the minister gives her a
glimpse of light from above."

"She shall not be carried off, if David and I can hide her," declared
Rollo. "One of us must watch the Macdonalds, while the other entertains
the lady."

"While she entertains you, you mean," said Annie, smiling. "She has
many wonderful things to tell to such as we are."

"Not more than we have to tell her. Why, mother, she knows no more--"

"Well, well," said the mother, smiling; "you cannot do wrong in amusing
her to the best of your ability, till she can see the minister, and hear
better things. So go, my son."

Rollo trimmed the lamp; saw that his mother was provided with fuel and
water, and departed; leaving her maternal heart cheered, so that her
almost bare cottage was like a palace to her. She was singing when
Macdonald put his head in, as he said, to bid her good night, but in
fact to see if Lady Carse had come home, David and Rollo acted in turn
as scouts; and from their report it appeared that, though the minister's
boat had not shown itself, there was a blockade of the eastern caves.
The lady's retreat was certainly suspected to be somewhere in this part
of the shore; for some of Macdonald's people were always in sight. Now
and then, a man, or a couple of women, came prying along the rocks; and
once two men took shelter in a cave which adjoined that in which the
trembling lady was sitting, afraid to move, and almost to breathe, lest
the echoes should betray her. The entrance to her retreat was so
curiously concealed by projections of rock, that she had nothing to fear
but from sound. But she could not be sure of this; and she would have
extinguished her fire by heaping sand upon it, and left herself in total
darkness in a labyrinth which was always sufficiently perplexing, if
Rollo had not held her hand. He stepped cautiously through the sand to
the nearest point to the foe, listened awhile, and then smiled and
nodded to Lady Carse, and seemed wonderfully delighted. This excited
her impatience so much that it seemed to her that the enemy would never
decamp. She was obliged to control herself; but by the time she might
speak, she was very irritable. She told Rollo not to grin and fidget in
that manner, but to let her know his news.

"Great news!" Rollo declared. "The sloop which was to bring the
minister and his wife was to lie-to this very night, in a deep cove
close at ha