the primacy of York.

Hawk and harp were all the properties the princesses-errant took
with them; but Jean, as her old nurse sometimes declared, loved Skywing better than all the weans, and Elleen's small
travelling-harp was all that she owned of her father's--except
the spirit that loved it.




CHAPTER 2



DEPARTURE



'I bowed my pride,
A horse-boy in his train to ride.'--SCOTT.


The Lady of Glenuskie, as she was commonly called, was a near
kinswoman of the Royal House, Lilias Stewart, a grand-daughter
of King Robert II., and thus first cousin to the late King. Her
brother, Malcolm Stewart, had resigned to her the little barony
of Glenuskie upon his embracing the life of a priest, and her
becoming the wife of Sir Patrick Drummond, the son of his former
guardian.