s
to the further side of the lakes; there a new party of Macdonalds, led
by Keppoch, met them in front, and the whole body surrendered with
hardly a blow struck. They were carried prisoners to Locheil's house,
Achnacarry. In default of medical aid, the wounded captain was sent to
Fort William, in that spirit of generous courtesy which characterised
all Charles's behaviour to his defeated enemies.

[Illustration: 'Go, sir, to your general; tell him what you have
seen. . . .']

On August 19 the Royal Standard was raised at Glenfinnan, a deep rocky
valley between Loch Eil and Loch Sheil, where the Prince's monument now
stands. Charles, with a small body of Macdonalds, was the first to
arrive, early in the morning. He and his men rowed up the long narrow
Loch Sheil. The valley was solitary--not a far-off bagpipe broke the
silence, not a figure appeared against the skyline of the hills. With
sickening anxiety the small party waited, while the minutes dragged out
their weary length. At last, when suspense was strained to the utmost,
about two in the afternoon, a sound of pipes was heard, and a body of
Camerons under Lochiel appeared over the hill, bringing with them the
prisoners made at the Bridge of Spean. Others followed: Stewarts of
Appin, Macdonalds of Glencoe and Keppoch, till at least 1,500 were
present. Then the honoured veteran of the party, old Tullibardine,
advanced in solemn silence and unfurled the royal banner, with the motto
_Tandem Triumphans_. As its folds of white, blue, and red silk blew out
on the hill breeze, huzzas rent the air, and the sky was darkened by the
bonnets that were flung up. An English officer, a prisoner taken at
Spean, stood by, an unwilling spectator of the scene. 'Go, sir,' cried
the Prince in exultation, 'go to your general; tell him what you have
seen, and say that I am coming to give him battle.'

III

THE MARCH SOUTH

FOR a full month Prince Charles had been in Scotland. During that time a
body of men, amounting to a small army, had collected round him; his
manifestoes had been scattered all over the country (some were even
printed in Edinburgh), and yet the Government had taken no steps to
oppose him. News travelled slowly from the Highlands; it was August 9
before any _certain_ account of the Prince's landing was received in
Edinburgh. One bad fruit of the Union was that Scotch questions had to
be settled in London, and London was three days further away. Moreover,
at that