I replied, 'To Douglas, to prepare for
the coming of its lord.' The hall was full of armed men in Athol's
colors. Not one of the remnant who had followed my patron from the
bloody field of Dunbar was visible. Athol looked round on his
myrmidons: 'Here,' cried he, 'see that you speed this fellow on his
journey. We shall provide lodgings for his master.' I foresaw danger
to Lord Douglas, but I durst not attempt to warn him of it; and, to
secure my charge, which a return to the room might have hazarded, I
hastened into the courtyard, and being permitted to mount my horse, set
off at full speed.
"On arriving at this place, I remembered the secret closet, and
carefully deposited the box within it. A week passed, without any
tidings of Lord Douglas. At last a pilgrim appeared at the gate, and
requested to see me alone; fearing nothing from a man in so sacred a
habit, I admitted him. Presenting me with a packet which had been
intrusted to him by Lord Douglas, he told me my patron had been
forcibly carried on board a vessel at Montrose, to be conveyed with the
unhappy Baliol to the Tower of London. Douglas, on this outrage, sent
to the monastery at Aberbrothick, and under the pretense of making a
religious confession before he sailed, begged a visit from the
sub-prior.
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