Old Mortality
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At Lady Margaret Bellenden's shooting match for a painted bird, you win the marksman's prize for Milnwood with a shot from a galloping horse, beating Lord Evandale while Edith Bellenden watches. That night a grim stranger at Niel Blane's tavern throws a royal dragoon in a wrestling match, and a proclamation names him wanted for the archbishop's murder. You ride with him past hunting patrols toward Milnwood, learning he is Balfour of Burley, tied to a debt your father left unpaid, and night ends with him hidden in an outbuilding.
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- The Marksman and the FugitiveLanarkshire