At that the men, who had kept more or less silent, burst again into a furious tirade against the MacSteels.
“We’ll avenge him!” they cried. “We’ll not go on bein’ victims of a Clan we’ve always hated and who hates us! We’ll kill every MacSteel within miles till they can never again attack us in the dark or steal our animals from us when we’re not lookin’.”
There was by now a hundred or so men all shouting more or less the same thing.
It was therefore not difficult for the Earl to understand what they intended to do.
He wondered desperately how he could stop them.
He felt that nothing he said would have the slightest effect on men who were so enraged and determined to carry out their revenge.
Their faces were contorted with anger and their voices became louder and shriller with every
