CHAPTER VIII. HOW WE RETURNED TO WEMYSS BAY. “ Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say goodbye till it be morrow.” fT was thus that every “Mastiff” felt as we made our rapid way back from Reykjavik to Wemyss Bay. We had done thoroughly what we had intended, and to get home was all that was left to us as “Mastiffs.” But p there was a melancholy in this which perhaps would have been less had we not been so happy together. We returned by a different route, passing down between the Hebrides and the coast of Sutherlandshire, but not touching at any point till we landed Miss Campbell at Balmacara opposite to Skye. Thus for many hours we steamed along the magnificent coasts of Western Scotland, beginning with the Butt of Lewis on one side and Cape Wrath on the other, looking into Gairloch and Apple- cross as we passed, and running through that most lovely of all sea channels, the narrows between Skye and the mainland. Here we left Miss Campbell at the wave-washed door of a friendly house, whence two young ladies came to greet us on the rock on which we landed her. It would be difficult to find a more romantic spot. It was between ten and eleven, but it was still daylight and the colours of the woods and the waters were as perfectly beautiful as colour can be imagined, when I shook hands with our fair friend as I left her. It was sad to part after having been so intimately thrown together for a time ! We had heard no news for three weeks, and when we landed at Balmacara,— J. B. and I, with Miss Campbell under our charge,—we did not know whether we

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