King's Corrodian

''The tale seems very improbable,'' Gil Cunningham said. ''How should the Devil enter a religious house and carry off one of its members?''

How indeed? But Arnold Fleming, the widely dislike pensioner, or corrodian, lodged in the Dominican''s house in Perth, has vanished from a chamber, and a local knight and his mistress claim to have seen the Devil abroad that very same night. Three of the friars...