he
soldiers searched the house.

But before telling her father that he could with safety return home
Grizel examined the underground room daily, to see that it was not
flooded. Feeling confident at last that the water would not percolate,
she told Sir Patrick of the hiding-place prepared for him, and during
the night he crept back to the castle.

When he had been there a week without anyone but Grizel, her mother,
and Winter knowing of his presence, the water burst through into the
subterranean room and flooded the box. Grizel was for a few minutes
terror-stricken, for if the soldiers paid another visit to the castle,
there would be nowhere for her father to hide, and he would be
captured. She hurried to him to advise him to return that night to the
vault; but being an active man he disliked the prospect of prolonged
idleness, and decided to make an attempt to escape to Holland, where
many of his political friends had already found safety.

Grizel now set to work to alter her father's clothes, so that he might
appear to be a man of humble station. Throughout the day and all
through the night she plied her needle, but her task was not finished
when the news reached the castle that Robert Baillie of Jerviswoode had
been executed at Edinburgh. Knowing that her father would meet a
similar fate if captured, she finished his disguise quickly, and urged
his instant flight. He acted on her advice, and had not been gone many
hours before the soldiers arrived and searched the castle thoroughly.

After some narrow escapes from being recognised and arrested Sir
Patrick arrived at London, and crossed to France, making his way thence
to Holland. But before he had been there long he was declared a rebel,
and his estates confiscated. Lady Hume and her children were turned
out of the castle, and found themselves almost penniless. Grizel and
her mother, financially assisted by some friends, journeyed to London,
to petition the Government for an allowance out of the confiscated
estates, and after much difficulty succeeded in obtaining a paltry
pittance of L150 a year.

Sir Patrick's hatred of the Stuarts was naturally increased by the
treatment his wife and children had received at their hands, and he
threw himself heart and soul into the conspiracy for invading England
and Scotland. He took part, under the Duke of Argyle, in the invasion
of Scotland, and on the failure of the enterprise remained in hiding
until he found a