Chapter FourteenBallater, Scotland, 1976
Angus and Margaret Houston had been inundated with visitors almost from the moment they'd arrived home with young Hamish. Uncles, cousins, and grandparents in addition to dozens of friends and neighbors had maintained a constant stream of visits to the couple and their newborn son in their home not far from the royal castle at Balmoral.
Here in the highlands of Scotland, the young Houston would have the perfect start in life, surrounded by a loving family, with the benefits of fresh air, magnificent scenery, and a first class education. It was known pretty much throughout the British Isles that the Scottish system of education was far superior to the systems in operation in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland. In those early days at the family hom
