Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net PATSY BY S. R. CROCKETT AUTHOR OF "THE RAIDERS," "THE STICKIT MINISTER," "LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM," "ANNE OF THE BARRICADES," ETC. SYNDICATE PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1913. Reprinted February, 1913; April, December, 1913. [Illustration: "Yes, I," said Patsy.] CONTENTS CHAPTER I. HEIRESS AND HEIR CHAPTER II. THE MAIDENS' COVE CHAPTER III. THE BOTHY CHAPTER IV. BY FORCE OF ARMS CHAPTER V. PATSY'S CONFESSIONS CHAPTER VI. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS CHAPTER VII. THE LADS IN THE HEATHER CHAPTER VIII. THE BLACK PEARL OF CAIRN FERRIS CHAPTER IX. HIS LIFE IN HIS HAND CHAPTER X. THE WICKED LAYETH A SNARE CHAPTER XI. THE TRAMPLING OF HORSE IN THE NIGHT CHAPTER XII. PATSY'S RESCUE CHAPTER XIII. PLOTS AND PRINCES CHAPTER XIV. THE END OF AN OLD FEUD CHAPTER XV. THE FECHTIN' FOOL CHAPTER XVI. A RIDER COMES TO CASTLE RAINCY CHAPTER XVII. PATSY HELD IN HONOUR CHAPTER XVIII. UNCLE JULIAN'S PRINCESS CHAPTER XIX. MISS ALINE TAKES COMMAND CHAPTER XX. LOUIS RAINCY ENDURES HARDNESS CHAPTER XXI. THE CAVE OF ADULLAM CHAPTER XXII. WINTER AFTERNOON CHAPTER XXIII. PATSY HAS GREATNESS THRUST UPON HER CHAPTER XXIV. THE LOST FOLK'S ACRE CHAPTER XXV. THE HIGH STILE CHAPTER XXVI. THE GIBBET RING CHAPTER XXVII. THE DUKES ... AND SUPSORROW CHAPTER XXVIII. THE "GREEN DRAGON" CHAPTER XXIX. ENEMY'S COUNTRY CHAPTER XXX. A CREDIT TO THE "GREEN DRAGON" CHAPTER XXXI. THE NIGHT LANDING CHAPTER XXXII. ORDEAL BY FIRE CHAPTER XXXIII. PATSY RAISES THE COUNTRY CHAPTER XXXIV. THE PRISON-BREAKERS CHAPTER XXXV. THE PICTS' WAY IS THE WOMAN'S WAY CHAPTER XXXVI. STIFF-NECKED AND REBELLIOUS CHAPTER XXXVII. A PICTISH HONEYMOON CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE LAND OF ALWAYS AFTERNOON CHAPTER XXXIX. REBEL GALLOWAY CHAPTER XL. "WHY DO THEY LOVE YOU?" CHAPTER XLI. THE BATTLE OF THE CAUSEWAY CHAPTER I HEIRESS AND HEIR They stood high on the Abbey cliff-edge--an old man, eagle-profiled, hawk-beaked, cockatoo-crested, with angry grey eyebrows running peakily upwards towards his temples at either side ... and a boy. They were the Earl Raincy and his grandson Louis--all the world knew them in that country of the Southern Albanach. For Leo Raincy was a great man, and the lad the heir of all he possessed.