Some weeks later

It was the day of the Glenbogle Ball. That morning Archie and Jamie decided to go rowing on the loch.

"What's wrong " Archie asked to Jamie " you look so angry ? "

"I wanted to go to the ball with a girl from the village. And now dad wants me to go with Flora, Kilwillie's daughter. You think that I like it ? " Archie started laughing.

" No I don't think so. It's the same with me. Katrina expected me to go with her but I want to ask Lexie to go with me."

" Archie, you don't gonna start a relation with Lexie I suppose " Jamie said to him " Dad will never allow it. You must know she's the daughter of a Glaswegian prostitute. Who knows it's also in her blood, she'll be the same"

Now Archie was getting very angry. " Don't say that, do you start again saying such things. I thought I had convinced you to not think bad of her. She's a very nice and pretty girl, I like her "

Jamie only laughed about it " Archie open your eyes. She's grown up in the slums of Glasgow "

Archie wanted he stopped with his nonsense that he said about Lexie. He was standing up in the boat and hit his brother in his face. " Shut up you ! " he shouted. At once it became all black before his eyes. He didn't know what he was doing anymore.

When Archie woke up again he was laying in the water and Jamie also did. He saw that Jamie was bleeding in his face. Archie didn't want to hear him anymore. He was swimming back to the beach. But Jamie didn't follow him. Archie looked behind him and couldn't find his brother. Now Archie was very scared, where was Jamie now ?

He dived into the water but didn't see anything. When he came above to take a breath he screamed for help. Again he dived but didn't find Jamie. At once he feeled that someone was taking his arms to take him above.

"Come on lad, you're safe. I'll bring you back " It was Golly. Duncan was also there in a boat looking around him if he could find Jamie.

" I'm gonna bring Archie back and then I'm gonna help you " Golly shouted to Duncan. Duncan only gave a sign that he heard it, not taking his eyes of the water around him.

When Archie was back on the beach he started running to the house. ' It couldn't be true ! No, please let it not be true' he was thinking. But it didn't go out of his mind.

"You killed your brother " it was always repeating in him. Through and through wet he arrived at the house.

"Where have you been ? " Lizzie shouted to him. "Quick, gonna change yourself, Katrina is waiting for you " She followed him on the stairs, but he slammed the door of his room before her. Lizzie didn't let her stop by this. She opened the door and started yelling at him again. At once she gave a loud scream, ran out of his room and came downstairs again. At the same time Lexie came out of the kitchen.

"Murderer, my brother is a murderer !!" she shouted and ran out of the house screaming for her mum. Lexie frightened of it. What happened ? She also ran into the direction of the loch where she saw Molly and Hector standing on the beach. Molly was crying and Hector was looking out over the loch with dead eyes.

An hour later Golly and Duncan found Jamie's body. In the meantime Archie had packed some luggage and left Glenbogle.