The Gleam in the North

The Gleam in the North
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In an unsettling time following Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Ewen Cameron of Ardroy is living in Scottish Highlands by his beloved loch with his wife and two young boys. When his younger son falls in the cold loch water, he gets rescued in the last minute and falls ill, so Ewen goes strolling through hills and moors looking for someone who can help his boy. However, King George's Redcoats are patrolling through the Highlands, assisted by local clan spies, lurking to catch mutineers from the Rebellion. Ewen gets captured and taken to London to be executed where he crosses paths with his old friend Keith Windham, former Captain of the Royal Scots.

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D. K. Broster. The Gleam in the North

The Gleam in the North

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. THE BROKEN CLAYMORE

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CHAPTER II. LIEUTENANT HECTOR GRANT OF THE RÉGIMENT D’ALBANIE

CHAPTER III. A FRENCH SONG BY LOCH TREIG

CHAPTER IV. THE MAN WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD

(1)

(2)

(3)

CHAPTER V. KEITHIE HAS TOO MANY PHYSICIANS

(1)

(2)

CHAPTER VI ‘WHO IS THIS MAN?’

(1)

(2)

CHAPTER VII. A GREAT MANY LIES

(1)

(2)

CHAPTER VIII. ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT

(1)

(2)

(3)

CHAPTER IX. THE WORM AT THE HEART

(1)

(2)

(3)

CHAPTER X ‘AN ENEMY HATH DONE THIS’

(1)

(2)

(3)

CHAPTER XI. THE CASTLE ON THE SHORE

CHAPTER XII. AFTER SUNSET

(1)

(2)

CHAPTER XIII. THE RELUCTANT VILLAIN

(1)

(2)

CHAPTER XIV. IN TIME—AND TOO LATE

(1)

(2)

CHAPTER XV ‘ ’TWAS THERE THAT WE PARTED——’

(1)

(2)

CHAPTER XVI. THE DOOR IN ARLINGTON STREET

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(2)

(3)

CHAPTER XVII. FORESEEN AND UNFORESEEN

(1)

(2)

CHAPTER XVIII. CROSSING SWORDS

CHAPTER XIX. KEITH WINDHAM’S MOTHER

(1)

(2)

CHAPTER XX ‘LOCHABER NO MORE’

CHAPTER XXI. FINLAY MACPHAIR IS BOTH UNLUCKY AND FORTUNATE

(1)

(2)

CHAPTER XXII ‘STONE-DEAD HATH NO FELLOW’

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(2)

CHAPTER XXIII. CONSTANT AS STEEL

CHAPTER XXIV ‘THE SALLY-PORT TO ETERNITY’

EPILOGUE

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D. K. Broster

Historical Novel

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This argument appeared to impress the logical mind of his son. “Yes, Father,” he said in a more subdued tone. “Yes, I am sorry that I was disobedient.”

And, though Ardroy at once divined a not very satisfactory reason for this admission, he wisely did not probe into it. “Go to bed now.”

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