"'You are Padruig M'Vurich, the shepherd.' "At that a trembling was upon old Padruig, who had the wonder that this stranger should know who and what he was. "'And who will you be, and forgive the saying?' he asked. "'_Am Fàidh_--the Prophet,' the man said. "'And what prophet will you be, and what is your prophecy?' asked Padruig. "'I am here because I wait for what is to be, and that will be the coming of the Woman who is the Daughter of God.' "And with that the man said no more, an' the old shepherd went down through the gloaming, an', heavy with the thoughts that troubled him, followed his ewes down into Aonaig. But after that neither he nor any other saw or heard tell of the shadowy stranger; so that all upon Rona felt sure that Padruig had beheld no more than a vision. There were some who thought that he had seen the ghost of the outlaw Donnacha Bàn; an' mayhap one or two who wondered if the stranger that had said he was a prophet was not Donnacha Bàn himself, with a madness come upon him; but at last these sayings went out to sea upon the wind, an' men forgot. But, an' it was months and months afterwards, an' three days before his own death, old Padruig M'Vurich was sitting in the sunset on the rocky ledge in front of his brother's croft, where then he was staying, when he heard a strange crying of seals. He thought little of that; only, when he looked closer, he saw, in the hollow of the wave hard by that ledge, a drifting body. "'_Am Fàidh--Am Fàidh!_' he cried; 'the Prophet, the Prophet!' "At that his brother an' his brother's wife ran to see; but it was nothing that they saw. 'It would be a seal,' said Pòl M'Vurich; but at that Padruig had shook his head, an' said no for sure, he had seen the face of the dead man, an' it was of him whom he had met on the hillside, an' that had said he was the Prophet who was waiting there for the second coming of God.