Contents

Title Page

About the Author

Dedication

Prefatory Note

Chapter 1: My Gossip, Maisie May

Chapter 2: Gay Garland Carries Double

Chapter 3: Gay Garland Comes Home Saddle Empty

Chapter 4: Sandy Gordon Comes over the Hill All Alone

Chapter 5: The Clash of Words

Chapter 6: The Clash of Swords

Chapter 7: The Field of Bothwell Brig

Chapter 8: The Curate of Dalry

Chapter 9: Through Death’s Dark Vale

Chapter 10: The Grave in the Wilderness

Chapter 11: The Blood of the Martyrs

Chapter 12: We Ride to Edinburgh

Chapter 13: Wullcat Wat Dares Heaven and Hell

Chapter 14: The Thing that Fell from Traitor’s Gate

Chapter 15: The Bicker in the Snow

Chapter 16: The Grey Mowdiewort

Chapter 17: Over the Muir Amang the Heather

Chapter 18: Auld Anton of the Duchrae

Chapter 19: The Sweet Singers of the Deer-Slunk

Chapter 20: The Home of My Love

Chapter 21: The Great Conventicle by the Dee Water

Chapter 22: Peden the Prophet

Chapter 23: Birsay the Cobbler

Chapter 24: The Sanquhar Declaration

Chapter 25: The Last Charge at Ayrsmoss

Chapter 26: Hiding with the Heather-Cat

Chapter 27: The Water of the Well of Bethlehem that Is beside the Gate

Chapter 28: The Well-house of Earlstoun

Chapter 29: Cupboard Love

Chapter 30: The Bull of Earlstoun’s Homecoming

Chapter 31: Jean’s Wa’s

Chapter 32: Plain Words upon Men

Chapter 33: The Gardener of Balmaghie

Chapter 34: The Testing of the Tyke

Chapter 35: Kate of The Dark Brows

Chapter 36: The Black Horse Comes to Balmaghie

Chapter 37: A Cavalier’s Wooing

Chapter 38: In Cove Macaterick

Chapter 39: The Bower of the Star

Chapter 40: Mardrochat the Spy

Chapter 41: The House of the Black Cats

Chapter 42: The Nick o’ the Deid Wife

Chapter 43: The Vengeance Of ‘Yon’

Chapter 44: A Desirable General Meeting

Chapter 45: The Outfacing of Clavers

Chapter 46: The Fight at the Caldons

Chapter 47: The Galloway Flail

Chapter 48: The Fight in the Gut of the Enterkin

Chapter 49: The Death of Mardrochat

Chapter 50: The Breaking of the Thieves’ Hole

Chapter 51: The Sands of Wigtown

Chapter 52: The Madness of the Bull of Earlstoun

Chapter 53: Under Sentence of Death

Chapter 54: Robbery on the King’s Highway

Chapter 55: The Red Maiden

Chapter 56: The Maid on the White Horse

Followeth – The Author’s Conclusion