The Man of the House

Who was it that Niall was waiting for hidden high in the moors above the road, surveying the little Skye township and its sparse inhabitants? As the cream roof of the bus rounded the last bend of the road and stopped by the red-roofed byre directly below Niall, a man got out - "the man I had waited so long to see." All was not well in the township. No man trusted his neighbour any more. Niall knew why, though no man had spoken aloud. Last November, at the dipping, there were eleven sheep short. Someone among them was a thief, but none knew who. The man who had returned was Niall's brother, Ruairidh, a prince among men if ever there was one. And his return brought the brooding suspicion and menace in the little township to a head. Together, Niall and Ruairidh were soon in the thick of an adventure, strange, frightening and fraught with danger. The author of The Hill of the Red Fox has written in The Man Of The House another splendid atory with the island of Skye as its background.