They looked to their Chieftains for guidance and received none.
Many of them did not understand that they were required to move down to the seashore and scratch a living there or emigrate to a strange world across the seas.
So their crofts were burned over their heads and they were treated as if they were criminals.
Ever since she was a child, Leona had heard of the sufferings that had been inflicted first in Sutherland and then in Ross.
To her mother it was a betrayal of everything she believed in, everything that was part of her heritage.
But Mrs. Grenville was a long way from home and it was hard to have a true picture of what had occurred or to understand how there could be no champion of the Highlanders to sponsor their cause.
It had all started long before Leona was born, but i
