Together, she and her beloved horse face seemingly insurmountable challenges, but all along Lara keeps two things in mind. When the filly is eventually given to a titled baron in the castle town of Athenry, Lara, determined to stay with the horse no matter what, goes along. But just when she is confident that the foal can survive, a rival clan captures them both, and throws Lara's life into turmoil. Lara vows to take care of the foal as a dying promise to the gray mare, and with the help of a childless milk-cow, she cares for the spindly-legged filly. When Lara goes to the highlands to set the cattle out to graze, she finds the mare in the process of a difficult birth. While she spends her days tending to the cattle, her heart lies with her beloved gray mare.
Nine-year-old Lara is the daughter of the r?-the leader of her cattle-raising clan. Bride's, near by, until formal permission to enter the castle has been secured, while the minstrel obtains entrance upon pretext of examining ancient songs. They meet the deputy governor, De Valence, who agrees that the supposed boy shall be left at the convent of St. Disguising herself as a youth, she goes in company of her father's minstrel Bertram as his son. He accepts the task and is made governor of the stronghold but as the months slowly go by, Lady Augusta is overcome by misgivings and resolves to go to the castle and shorten the probation. At last Lady Augusta de Berkely promises her hand and large estates to Sir John de Walton on condition that he hold the "Dangerous Castle" for a year and a day. More than one English lord has attempted to hold it against attack or trickery, but in every case has come to a violent end. Sir James Douglas, popularly called the Black Douglas, chief supporter of Bruce, has sworn that Douglas Castle shall not remain in the hands of the English. The term "Castle Dangerous" was applied to the feudal home of the Scotch Douglases, because of the many fierce fights for its possession which raged between the English and the Scotch lords, during the struggle of Kobert Bruce against King Edward I.
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