In Freedom's Cause

Chapter 16:
The wild Irish took Archie and Ronald to see their chief, Fergus. He told Archie that, well the Irish wanted to get rid of the English, it would not be possible to do what the Scots had done and were doing. The Irish had no patience for that kind of fighting.  Archie then went to see another chief, and found the Irish there already in one of those small uprisings that occurred often. But they would not do anything except charge the enemy. Archie saw that the Irish could not do what the Scots had done, and so he went back with Ronald to the island were the king was.
Chapter 17
The king went back to the mainland, and he decided to keep on harrying the English. The English went after him several times, but they could not lay hands on him. They caught many others and killed them without mercy. The king would not kill any of his prisoners, but the young Douglass did. Douglass killed any and all of his prisoners, giving no more quarter than the English.
A great danger here came to the king. The English had his favorite blood-hound, and they kept trying to catch him with it. Archie determined to either kill the hound or to set it loose.
Chapter 18
Archie went to the English camp, and acted like he was a poor, half-witted man who had been one of Bruce's retainers. The English lord in charge of the camp gave him charge of the dog, Hector, on Archie's pretending that he used to wash the dog. Hector knew Archie, and they got along very well. A traitor came in and told them were Bruce had last slept. They took Hector out there and they almost caught the king. But they were going up a steep hillside, and when he got to the top ahead of the knights on foot who had followed him he set Hector free and pushed boulders down on the knights below. He then escaped and joined his men and later the king.
Marry Kerr sent her retainers to join him, which very much confused Archie, and here the chapter ends.
More soon!
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