Some parted off in
divisions to return to their respective countries, while a few, whose
energetic spirits preferred a life of warfare in the cause of a country
struggling for freedom, before returning to submit to the oppressors of
their own, enlisted under the banners of Wallace.
Some other necessary regulations being then made, he dismissed his
gallant Scots, to find refreshment in the well-stored barracks of the
dispersed Southrons, and retired himself to join his friends in the
citadel.
Chapter XXXI.
Berwick and the Tweed.
In the course of an hour Murray returned from having seen the departing
Southrons beyond the barriers of the township. But he did not come
alone; he was accompanied by Lord Auchinleck, the son of one of the
betrayed barons who had fallen in the palace of Ayr. This young
chieftain, at the head of his vassals, hastened to support the man
whose dauntless hand had thus satisfied his revenge; and when he met
Murray at the north gate of the town, and recognized in his flying
banners a friend of Scotland, he was happy to make himself known to an
officer of Wallace, and to be conducted to that chief.
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