His eyes had never left those of the clan chieftain.

He appointed clan chieftains as reserve army officers who were kept on call to protect the regime against domestic or foreign threats.

But the clan chieftain was not completely adrift in young Cardif's wake.

They were the spirit of Qamat, his son and he who would be next clan chieftain of the island people.

The clan chieftain had been struck, his son shot, by a southern boy.

"There speaks the true daughter of the old Scottish clan chieftain."

- Born 1162, the son of a murdered clan chieftain.

Turning to scan the nervous faces of the clan chieftains behind him, he waved a hand toward them and bellowed.

Was he now to be regarded as a clan chieftain?

The clan chieftain no longer had the strength to listen to long-winded introductions.