He then proceeded to the house, and found the object of his mission
disguised as a Carmelite, and in the chapel paying his vesper
adorations to the Almighty Being on whom his whole dependence hung.
Uninfluenced by the robes he wore, his was the devotion of the soul;
and not unaptly at such an hour came one to deliver him from a danger
which, unknown to himself, was then within a few minutes of seizing its
prey.
Montgomery entered; and being instantly recognized by Bruce, the
ingenuous prince, never doubting a noble heart, stretched out his hand
to him. "I take it," returned the earl, "only to give it a parting
grasp. Behold these spurs and purse sent to you by Gloucester. You
know their use. Without further observation follow me." Montgomery
was thus abrupt, because as he left the palace he had heard the marshal
give orders for different military detachments to search every
residence of Gloucester for the Earl of Carrick; and he did not doubt
that the party dispatched to Highgate were now mounting the hill.
Bruce, throwing off his cassock and cowl, again appeared in his martial
garb, and after bending his knee for a moment on the chancel-stone
which covered the remains of Wallace, he followed his friend from the
chapel, and thence through a solitary path to the park, to the center
of the wood.
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