TRAGIC ROMANCES [Illustration] RE-ISSUE OF THE SHORTER STORIES OF FIONA MACLEOD REARRANGED, WITH ADDITIONAL TALES COPYRIGHTED IN THE UNITED STATES: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED By the Same Author. PHARAIS: A Romance of the Isles. (FRANK MURRAY, Derby.) (STONE & KIMBALL, New York.) THE MOUNTAIN LOVERS: A Romance. (JOHN LANE, London.) (ROBERTS BROS., Boston.) THE SIN-EATER: and other Tales. (PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES, Edinburgh.) (STONE & KIMBALL, New York.) THE WASHER OF THE FORD: and other Legendary Moralities. (PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES, Edinburgh.) (STONE & KIMBALL, New York.) GREEN FIRE: A Romance. (ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO., London.) (HARPERS, New York.) FROM THE HILLS OF DREAM: Mountain Songs and Island Runes. (PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES, Edinburgh.) VOLUME THREE TRAGIC ROMANCES BY Fiona Macleod PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES THE OUTLOOK TOWER·CASTLE HILL·EDINBURGH TRAGIC ROMANCES “It is Destiny, then, that is the Protagonist in the Celtic Drama … And it is Destiny, that sombre Demogorgon of the Gael, whose boding breath, whose menace, whose shadow glooms so much of the remote life I know, and hence glooms also this book of interpretations: for pages of life must either be interpretative or merely documentary, and these following pages have for the most part been written as by one who repeats, with curious insistence, a haunting, familiar, yet ever wild and remote air, whose obscure meanings he would fain reiterate, interpret.” (From the PROLOGUE to _The Sin-Eater_.) CONTENTS PAGE MORAG OF THE GLEN 11 THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN 61 THE SIN-EATER 113 THE NINTH WAVE 167 THE JUDGMENT O’ GOD 185 GREEN BRANCHES 201 THE ARCHER 231 _NOTE_ In this volume all the tales, except the first and last, are re-issued from _The Sin-Eater_. “Morag of the Glen” is reprinted from the November issue of _The Savoy_; “The Archer” has not hitherto appeared in print. As the other tales have not been reset, they are, except in the matter of pagination and arrangement, necessarily unaltered. _MORAG OF THE GLEN_ MORAG OF THE GLEN I