Darsie Latimer, a young man of mysterious birth, writes to his friend Alan Fairford, a law student in Edinburgh, of his wanderings on the Solway Firth. Then Darsie disappears, seized by the formidable Hugh Redgauntlet, who is plotting a final Jacobite rising years after the ’45, and Alan abandons his first case to find him.
Scott’s late, personal novel of law, loyalty and lost causes, containing the celebrated ghost tale Wandering Willie’s Tale. Download the free EPUB.