On her escape, Soulis would
have wreaked his vengeance on his vile emissary; but Monteith, aware of
his design, fled, and fled even into the danger he would have avoided.
He fell in with a party of roaming Southrons, who conveyed him to Ayr.
Once having immolated his honor, he kept no terms with conscience.
Arnulf soon understood what manner of man was in his custody; and by
sharing with him the pleasures of his table, soon drew from him every
information respecting the strength and resources of his country. His
after history was a series of secret treacheries to Scotland; and in
return for them, an accumulation of wealth from England, the
comtemplation of which seemed to be his sole enjoyment.
This new offer from De Valence was therefore greedily embraced. He
happened to be at Rutherglen when Haliburton brought the proposal; and
in the cloisters of its church** was its fell agreement signed. He
transmitted an oath to De Valence that he would die or win his hire.
And immediately dispatching spies to the camp at Roslyn, as soon as he
was informed of Wallace's disappearance, he judged, from the knowledge
of that chief's retentive affections, that whithersoever he intended
finally to go, he would first visit Ellerslie, and the tomb of his
wife.
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