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From the Dublin umversity Magazine.
The Last Victim Of the Scottish
Maiden.
(ooNcLUDsD)
Hamilton stood transfxed, while his
boiling blood gradually subsided, and his
passion cooled in the presence Of death
The whole thing had taken place so sud-
denly, that he could hardly believe the
living, breathing man he had been talking
TO so amicably but few moments before,
was lying there murdered by his own
hand. But suddenly, as he gazed, he felt
his flesh creep with strange horror, as
he saw the soulless eyes of the blind
maiden upmrned towards him as she knelt
on the ground by her dead father, towards
whom she crept with a step so stealthy
that he had not heard her. Hamilton
drew back, shuddorinp, from the fixed
stare; so dreadful seemed the expression
OF hate on her white, ghastly face; but as
he receded, she crept towards him on her
knees, and laid her hand, which she had
stepped in her fathers blood, on his, till
it bore the same red stain, and said, in a
low stiled voice: "You have murdered
him, and you shall die for il. None saw
the murder, for my blind eyes saw it not;
but think not to escape; the vengeance oil
Heaven will track you out one day -
Then flinging up her arms 20 heaven, she
exclaimed, "My father, o, my father p
and fell upon the corpse with a shrek SO
b wild and piercing, that Hamilton felt as il
it must have rung upon the ears Of every
! person in the town, and reached ever
through the massive walls of InVerary
' Castle.
I That cry recalled him TO himself; he
. must escape right speedily, or another mo
ment would see him surrounded by those
whom il must rouse; tho instinct Of self
preservation at once took place of every
other feeling, and with one bound he dart
ed to the other door, opened it, rushed t
the stable, mounted his horse without sad
s 9 4Ea% h and NJ gavS5a Chs salSsEgg STHg was q 9 a
j. that the inhabitants heard Of him as they
b. rushed to the inn, whence the blind girl'
shrieks were still heard echoing.
Hamilton never slackened his pace I'll
J he had laid ten miles between him ant
Inverary In those days, the course o
Justice was as stern as il was summary
and he felt well assured that the presen
q Marquis Of Argyle, the younger brother o
!. y his rival, would never rest till he ha
s found out the murderer of his retainer, es
pecially when he heard from Elspeth tn
4. circumstances of his death; and if he sue
ceeded in his search, the services, Of tn
g. "moiden" would right speedily be calle
into action for Kenelm himself
4 When at last he ventured, under cove
q Of a dark fire wood, to stop his furiou
course, he began TO consider the bes
il means of avoiding discovery, with n
small axiety as to the issue. His bes
hope was in the fact, that none had bee
r present during the murder but the bin
girl who could not identify him, and tina
not a single inhabtant Of Inverary ha
seen him, except her head father himself
He was now not very far from the hous
of his kinsman, where he originally il
tended TO have passed the night. Th
time he had spent so fatally in the inn q
z Invarary had not extended beyond a
nj hour, and the rapid pace at which he ha
h, traYersed the last ten miles had full
brought him to the time when he woul
according to his ordinary style of traye
ing, have reached his destination H
therefore resolved TO proceed thither
Z, once, as if he were only arriving from th
= village where he had left his servants, an
Ni TO trust that no one would ever suspe,
: him Of having made his unfortunate detol
= into the domain of his enemy. This pla
y succeeded perfectly, he was expected /
a, his cousin, and the next morning his Sc
want joined him, having LEFT his comraC
doing well; so that no doubt was for
moment entertained that he had ever d
j." waited from the road he had been expec
), ed 70 take, and he had once more start
M for Edinburgh before the news Of Il
i,b murder had spread beyond Inverary.-
on Nevertheless, when the fact did becon
'o- known, il created a great sensation, chic
.s. ly owing TO the peculiar circumstances
H, the Casa murder committed by an u
" known assassin iD presence Of one 80
. witness, and that one deprived Of the poN
or of seeing the murderer, was. even
those days Of bloodshed, a striking even
I'm and the mysterious escape Of the Grimm
seemed altogether unaccountbble.
The Marquis Of Argyle, who was at /
castle on the fatal night, left no stone u
oD. turned in his efforts to discover the PERI
tretor Of the deed being stimulated 10 u
usual activity in the search, by the strol
suspicion he entertained that the assasf
was in some way connected withthe IA
ily Of his foes, the Hamiltona. This
. gathered from the conversation betwe
the murderer aud bic victim, which Il
peth detailed word for word; but il aifo
~, - ed no clue whatever to the actual indiy
- ual, and KenBlm himself was never 81
7w, pected. hg ~ naeH
,.n' After few weeks of useless invest,
- ton, the search was given up; butthe
tails of the murder were carefully reco
ed by the court ofiustiee, and the Lord
Argyle declared that If ever in his liet
the assassin were discovered, he wo
y n bring him 10 the scafiold, be the inter
'T'' ever so long. Elspeth found home
the Marquis's household, sitter the &,
old fashion Of those times, which rec
nized a claim on the part of all the he
= less and afflicted Of The elan 70 find a
~ fuge with the family Of their chief,
"a Kouelm had to al appearance, escal
w. with perfect impunlty.