Oh, how interesting! That certainly is evidence that it's not something made up much later, anyway. No, of course we don't mind it. : )

I've never plowed the whole of The Lyon in Mourning, just parts of it. Maybe I should go back to it...and by the way, check out the footnote on the page just previous to that! Broster used those exact words about the prospects of appealing to the Duke of Argyll. : ) Interesting that it was in actual history another Campbell pleading with him for Archie's life, and taking the role that Ewen takes in GitN.