yet, though he parted so calmly, he never, it is said, ever spoke of her without deep gratitude; so it is not unlikely that his feelings were far stronger towards Flora than his words would imply. Before the Prince left the inn, he purchased a bottle of whisky from the landlord, which he slung on his belt. After leaving the house, the Prince looked back and saw the landlord looking after him. In great alarm he and Donald Roy changed their path, and went some way round before they joined Malcolm Macleod and young Raasay on the beach. When Charles got into the boat, he begged MacKechan, from whom he was also obliged to take leave, to give Flora-'our lady'—a lump of sugar (it being a delicacy in those days), for I am afraid she will get no sugar where she's going,' said Charles. The landlord questioned Macdonald very closely when the latter went back to the inn. He said the stranger was very like 'the Prince;' but Donald passed him off as an Irishman, who had been 'out,' and was afraid of being taken by the military. Flora went to her mother after leaving the Prince at Armadale, in Skye; but dared not tell even Mrs. Macdonald what a part she had had in aiding the Prince's escape. How anxiously she must have longed to hear if the Chevalier was safe! Her anxieties were not lessened when, at the end of a week, she was ordered to surrender Cruel Treatment of Kingsburgh. 243 herself as a prisoner to the commanding officer of a militia regiment in Skye. Her share in the Prince's romantic escape had become known through her boatmen, who had been closely questioned on their return to South Uist. Captain Ferguson, one of the Duke of Cumberland's emissaries, was furious when, from their account, he first suspected who Betty Burke really was. Not content with searching Kingsburgh's house, where he did not get much out of Mrs. Macdonald, he took Kingsburgh a prisoner. General Campbell sent him to Fort Augustus on parole, wisely judging that one who had been so faithful to royalty in misfortune, would not break his word. When Kingsburgh got there he was treated most cruelly. He was thrown into a dungeon, and put into irons. When he was sternly examined, and asked why he had not enriched his family by betraying the Prince, he replied, 'Had I gold and silver piled up in heaps as high as yonder mountain, it would not give me half as much satisfaction as I find in my own breast at having done what I have done.' He was taken to Edinburgh Castle, and imprisoned till the following July, 1747, having, as a writer says, 'got a whole year's safe lodging for affording that of one night.' He died in 1772, at an advanced age. When Flora was sent for, her friends advised her not to go; but she thought it wiser to do so at once. The eight or ten days that had elapsed since the Prince's departure, had been days of torture to her. She was longing to know if the noble devotion with which she had sacrificed herself for one whom she looked on as her Prince, and son of her rightful king, had been of service to him. She looked at the boat with the breezes that swung ; And aye as it lessened she sighed and she sung, 66 'Farewell to the lad I shall ne'er see again; Farewell to my hero, the gallant and young, The very day that Flora was made prisoner, Donald Roy Macdonald learnt by a letter, with neither address, date, nor signature to it, but written by the Prince's hand, that her conduct had saved him. Charles was safe, after numerous and perilous adventures. She was on her road to a neighbouring gentleman's house, who had been the medium of letting Flora know that Captain Macleod of Taliskar wished her to surrender, when she met her stepfather, Macdonald of Armadale. His surprise was very great when he heard on what an errand she was bound. A little way on she met Captain Macleod and some soldiers. They were marching along, intending to make her a prisoner at her mother's house. She was not allowed to return there, nor to wish the latter farewell, but was taken on board Captain Ferguson's ship, the 'Furnace,' which was |