by Sir Walter Scott
Adapted as a serial for broadcasting by John Keir Cross
4--' Poor Peter '
Produced by James Crampsey
Darsie Latimer's fishing holiday by the Solway Firth has led him into strange adventures and even stranger company. ' The Laird -of the Solway Lochs ' has saved him from certain death in the quicksands. The old Quaker fisherman, Joshua Geddes, has befriended him and has given some half-clues to the mysteries that shroud the young man's birth and fortune. The girl in the green mantle has already captured his heart, though he has seen but little of her. Moreover, he has discovered in letters from his friend Alan Fairford that both the Laird ' and Greenmantle * seem to be extraordinarily interested in his affairs.
He has met Wandering Willie, the blind fiddler, who has told him the strange tale of the Redgauntlets, a tale in which a reference to the family crest faintly stirs a chord in Darsie's memory. And he has met again the sinister figure of Cristal Nixon, in company with ' Greenmantle ' herself!