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                             TRAGIC ROMANCES

                             [Illustration]

                         RE-ISSUE OF THE SHORTER
                        STORIES OF FIONA MACLEOD
                            REARRANGED, WITH
                               ADDITIONAL
                                  TALES


                        COPYRIGHTED IN THE UNITED
                       STATES: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED




By the Same Author.

    PHARAIS: A Romance of the Isles.

            (FRANK MURRAY, Derby.)
            (STONE & KIMBALL, New York.)

    THE MOUNTAIN LOVERS: A Romance.

            (JOHN LANE, London.)
            (ROBERTS BROS., Boston.)

    THE SIN-EATER: and other Tales.

            (PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES, Edinburgh.)
            (STONE & KIMBALL, New York.)

    THE WASHER OF THE FORD: and other Legendary Moralities.

            (PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES, Edinburgh.)
            (STONE & KIMBALL, New York.)

    GREEN FIRE: A Romance.

            (ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO., London.)
            (HARPERS, New York.)

    FROM THE HILLS OF DREAM: Mountain Songs and Island Runes.

            (PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES, Edinburgh.)


                                 VOLUME
                                 THREE

                                 TRAGIC
                                ROMANCES

                                   BY
                              Fiona Macleod

                       PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES
                 THE OUTLOOK TOWER·CASTLE HILL·EDINBURGH




TRAGIC ROMANCES


“It is Destiny, then, that is the Protagonist in the Celtic Drama … And
it is Destiny, that sombre Demogorgon of the Gael, whose boding breath,
whose menace, whose shadow glooms so much of the remote life