WILLIAM BLACK'S NOVELS. LIBRARY EDITION. 19 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $1 25 per vol. Complete Sets, $22 00. SABINA ZEMBRA. WHITE HEATHER. JUDITH SHAKESPEARE. Illus trated by ABBEY. YOLANDE. Illustrated. SHANDON BELLS. Illustrated. THAT BEAUTIFUL WRETCH. Illustrated. SUNRISE. MACLEOD OF DARE. Illustrated. ers. MADCAP VIOLET. THREE FEATHERS. A DAUGHTER OF HETH. A PRINCESS OF THULE. IN FAR LOCHABER. IN SILK ATTIRE. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PHAETON. WHITE WINGS. Illustrated. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF CHEAP EDITION, IN PAPER COVERS. Sabina Zembra. 4to, 20 cents.-White Heather. 4to, 20 cents. -Judith Shakespeare. 4to, 20 cents. - Yolande. Illustrated. 4to, 20 cents.-Shandon Bells. Illustrated. 4to, 20 cents.-That Beautiful Wretch. Illustrated. 4to, 20 cents.-Sunrise. 4to, 15 cents.-Macleod of Dare. Illustrated. 8vo, 60 cents. Illustrated, 4to, 15 cents. -Green Pastures and Piccadilly. 8vo, 50 cents.-Madcap Violet. 8vo, 50 cents.-Three FeathIllustrated. 8vo, 50 cents.-A Daughter of Heth. 8vo, 35 cents.An Adventure in Thule. 4to, 10 cents. A Princess of Thule. 8vo, 50 cents. In Silk Attire. 8vo, 35 cents.- Kilmeny. 8vo, 35 cents.-The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton. 8vo, 50 cents.-White Wings. 4to, 20 cents.-The Maid of Killeena, the Marriage of Moira Fergus, and other stories. 8vo, 40 cents.-The Monarch of Mincing-Lane. Illustrated. 8vo, 50 cents.-The Strange Adventures of a House-boat. Ill'd. 8vo, 50 cents. -In Far Lochaber. 8vo, 40 cents. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. Any of the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States or Canada, on receipt of the price. IN FAR LOCHABER. CHAPTER I. IN FETTERS. KIRK O' SHIELDS, a small town in Lanarkshire, that all the week long was a roaring pandemonium of noise and fire and steam engines shrieking, boiler-works hammering, blasts and furnaces belching forth red flame into the heavy, smoke-laden atmosphere-sank of a Sunday into a sudden and unnatural quiet, that seemed to deepen and deepen as the slow hours of the afternoon dragged by and darkness and the night came down. And nowhere was the silence more marked and impressive than in the Minister's parlor, whence all worldly thoughts and cares and interests were supposed to be scrupulously banished, and the evening, after the active services of the day, given over to silent reading and meditation. On this particular Sabbath night there were three persons in the hushed little room, all of them absorbed in their pious task; and not a sound was audible beyond the occasional turning over of a leaf, or perhaps (for human nature is frail, and the time passed slowly) a bit of a half-concealed sigh from one of the girls. The Minister himself sate in the big easychair by the fireplace, the family Bible spread open on his knees, his head slightly inclined forward, his two hands partly supporting the ponderous volume. He was rather a small man, of pronounced and stern features; his forehead deeply lined; his dark gray eyes, set under bushy eyebrows, usually expressing a profound and habitual melancholy, though at times they were capable of flashing forth a fire of resentment or indignation. Suffering had left its traces on this worn and furrowed face, but the res |