A Daughter of Raasay

A Tale of the '45

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A Daughter of Raasay, A Tale of the '45, is by William MacLeod Raine. The contents list names chapters such as The Sport of Chance, A Cry in the Night, Charles Edward Stuart, Culloden and The Red Heather Hills.

A narrator says he mortgaged his own heritage and the lives of his young brother Charles and his sister Cloe. The narrator says the father had died of apoplexy without a will and that a large part of his personal property had come to the narrator with the entailed estate. A man called the Scotchman Balmerino, who had been a friend of the narrator's father and had done his best to save the narrator from folly, tells him that there is much left and that all is not lost. Aileen asks Kenneth not to think of it, and Kenneth insists there will be many a merry lusty gentleman lying quiet under the sod before they reach London town.

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William MacLeod Raine

William MacLeod Raine (1871-1954) was born in London and taken to Arkansas at ten, where his family settled on a cattle ranch near the Texas line. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1894, worked as a school principal in Seattle, then spent years in Denver as a reporter and editorial writer for the Republican, the Post, and the Rocky Mountain News.