Excerpt from The Queen of the Isle: A Novel Sometimes during the summer, pleasure parties were held here, but in the winter all was silent and dreary on the lonely, isolated little spot. This island had been, from time immemorial, in the possession of a family named Campbell, handed down from father to son. The people of the surrounding coun try had learned to look upon them as the rightful lords of the soil, to the manner born. The means by which it had first come into their possession were seldom thought of, or if thought of, only added to their reputa tion as a bold and daring race. The legend ran, that long before Calvert came over, a certain Sir Guy Camp bell, a celebrated freebooter and scion of the noble Scot tish clan of that name, who for some reckless crime had been outlawed and banished, and in revenge had hoisted the black flag and become a rover on the high seas, had, in his wanderings, discovered this solitary island, which he made the place of his rendezvous. Here, with his band of dare-devils - all outlaws like himself - he held many a jolly carousal that made the old woods ring. In one of his adventures he had taken captive a young Spanish girl, whose wondrous beauty at once conquered a heart all unused to the tender passion. He bore 03 his prize in triumph, and without asking her consent, made her his wife at the first port he touched. Soon, however, tiring of her company on shipboard, he brought her to his island home, and their left her to occupy his castle, while he sailed merrily away. One year afterward, Sir Guy the Fearless, as he was called, was conquered by an English sloop-oi-war; and, true to his daring character, he blew up the vessel, and, together with his crew and captors, perished in the explosion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.