He encouraged Robert to kill a local man, Blanchard, whom Gil-Martin did not like and whose preaching (and dislike of Gil-Martin) Robert found blasphemous. Gil-Martin began to encourage Robert to get rid of sinners who offended God. His mother and the Reverend did not like the influence of this young man, but Robert could not live without him. He grew dependent on Gil-Martin, and was fascinated by how his friend could change his appearance to resemble those around him. That same day he encountered a young man in the woods named Gil-Martin, whose intellect and spiritual superiority impressed him. Robert exulted in this, convinced that it was his job to defend the faith and punish sinners. On his eighteenth birthday, the Reverend announced to Robert that he was now one of the elect. The Editor then presents the memoirs in which Robert tells his story it is similar to the narrative in the events that it covers, but Robert’s perspective is new. The evidence they found was able to secure a warrant for Robert but when the authorities went to apprehend him, he was gone. Bell and Arabella pursued their cause, even coming into contact with Robert and another young man who scared them very much. She came into contact with Bell Calvert, a prostitute, who had witnessed the events of that night and could swear that Drummond was not the murderer, but rather that another man who looked like Drummond and Robert had killed him. His mistress and adopted mother to George, Miss Arabella Logan, committed herself to finding out what happened to her son.
Drummond fled the country.īrokenhearted, the laird died not long after. That night he was mysteriously murdered, and his friend Thomas Drummond was assumed to be the murderer. One night after securing victory against his brother in the courts, George celebrated with his friends at a tavern.
The dispute between the two played out in the town and its environs at one point George swore he saw his brother’s spectral presence in a hazy cloud atop a mountain.
Robert began to haunt the steps of George, his brother, and George could not escape his presence and had to withdraw into private. The dark and bitter Robert grew up nursing an intense hatred of his father and brother, and considered them enemies of himself and God. His mother and the Reverend Robert Wringhim, a strict and passionate spiritual adviser to Rabina, raised the second son, Robert. Their strained marriage did result in two sons, but the laird would only recognize the firstborn, George. The Laird of Dalcastle married Rabina, a woman whose piety tended toward zealotry and fanaticism. The novel begins with the Editor’s Narrative, in which he tells the story as he knows it before introducing the manuscript.
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