ANGER SHIP--SANDY REDLAND, THE FACTOR--ARCHY
EAGLESHAY--MISS WARDHILL'S VISITORS--THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE HEIR.

Lunnasting Castle stood on a high rocky promontory, washed by the ocean
on the south and east, and by a voe which ran up some way inland on the
west. It was a somewhat extensive building; but though of a castellated
style of architecture it was not really a fortress further than the
naturally inaccessible nature of the ground on which it stood made it
so. It stood on the site, and was formed partly of such materials as
time had left of an old castle of the earls or ancient Udal lords of
Shetland, and had been very much increased in size, and ornamented, as
well as rendered a more commodious habitation by the present owner, Sir
Marcus Wardhill. The dwelling-house consisted but of two stories, and
standing, as it did, elevated some way above the sea, looked lower than
it really was. It was surrounded on the north, east, and west, by a
high castellated wall, flanked with towers, which, if not capable of
keeping out a mortal enemy, served the purpose for which it was built,--
to guard the mansion from the assaults of the wintry blasts of the icy
ocean. In front, on the south side, that the inhabitants might enjoy
the sea view, and that the warm rays of the sun might be admitted, the
wall sunk down to the height of a mere ornamental parapet, the round
towers at either end giving it some right to claim the title bestowed on
it; especially as on the summit of either tower Sir Marcus had mounted a
couple of long six-pounders, capable of considerably annoying any
hostile vessel of a size at all likely to venture near that part of a
coast so full of dangers that no large ship would willingly approach it.
The muzzles of some smaller guns appeared through the embrasure of the
parapet wall, which was also flanked by a buttress, or rather a circular
outwork at either end at the foot of the towers, where pivot guns were
placed, so that the one on the west could fire directly up the voe or
gulf, and served to flank the western wall. The two principal front
towers were connected with the dwelling-house, and had small chambers in
them, one above the other, which had been fitted up as sitting-rooms or
dormitories.

In a deep window recess, in the highest chamber of the western tower of
Lunnasting Castle, sat Miss Wardhill, Sir Marcus Wardhill's eldest
child. Although the window matched in appearance the others in that a