John Buchan

The Power-House John Buchan

To her father, she was The Princess. To her Boston aunts and uncles she was just Dollie Urquhart, poor little thing. Colin Urquhart was just a bit mad. He was of an old Scottish family, and he claimed royal blood. The blood of Scottish kings flowed in his veins. On this point, his American relatives said, he was just a bit "off". They could not bear any more to be told which royal blood of Scotland blued his veins. The whole thing was rather ridiculous, and a sore point. The only fact they remembered was that it was not Stuart.