WHITE COCKADES An Incident of the "Forty-Five" BY EDWARD IRENÆUS STEVENSON AUTHOR OF "THE GOLDEN MOON," ETC. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1887 COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS TROW'S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, NEW YORK. TO CLINTON BOWEN FISK, JR. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE IN A HIGHLAND GLADE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER II. A STORY AND A SHELTER, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 CHAPTER III. "IN THE KING'S NAME," . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 CHAPTER IV. "PUSS IN THE CORNER," . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 CHAPTER V. IN WHICH CAPTAIN JERMAIN'S MEMORY IS USEFUL, . . . . . . . . . . . 66 CHAPTER VI. A DESPERATE SHIFT, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 CHAPTER VII. PRISONER AND SENTRY, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 CHAPTER VIII. MEETING--FLIGHT, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 CHAPTER IX. COLONEL DANFORTH, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 CHAPTER X. ALL FOR HIM, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 CHAPTER XI. UNDER THE OAK, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 CHAPTER XII. L'ENVOI, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 WHITE COCKADES AN INCIDENT OF THE "FORTY-FIVE" CHAPTER I. IN A HIGHLAND GLADE. Just as the brilliancy of a singularly clear July afternoon, in the year above named, was diminishing into that clear, white light which, in as high a Scotch latitude as Loch Arkaig, lasts long past actual sunset, Andrew Boyd, a Highland lad of sixteen, was putting the finishing strokes to the notch in the trunk of a good-sized oak he was felling. Its thick foliage waved rather mournfully, as if in expectancy of near doom, over the boy's head. That oak had engaged Andrew's attention pretty much all the afternoon. He was glad to be so well on toward his work's close.