Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-01
The Scottish Chiefs
OR, THE HEROIC ADVENTURES OF WAL
LACE AND BRUCE.

WarQ. hlDS DdllOl was prISOner, dnu
England's supremacy was acknowledged
by all the Scottish mobiles, save the
brave and youthful Sir William Wallace,
who lived secluded IN the glen of Ellers-
lie with his beautiful bride Marion,
whom he had tenderly loved from his
childhood. Suddenly summoned to
Douglas castle, small iron box, left
with Douglas by the captive Baliol. was
confded to Wallace's care, with the
charge
alt will be at the peril of his soul
who dares to open it till Scotland be
again free p
Returning home, he rescued the Earl
of Mar from throng of merciless Eng
lish soldiers, killed Arthur Heselrlgge,
their leader, and narrowly escaped with
his own life. Pursued to Ellerslie by
the enraged English, the wounded earl
was hidden in dry well, Wallace climb
ed into an oak, and Marion concealed
herself in thicket. The search being
baf1ed, Wallace hastened to hide him
self among the Cartlane crags, but the
next day Governor Heselrigge. Arthur's
uncle, came and violently demanded
Where is Sir William Wallace %
Lady Marion remained silent.
"Speak, woman If you refuse, you
die !'
Then l die," she answered, "and
may Heaven preserve my Wallace from
the fangs of Edward and his tyrants !"
"Blasphemous wretch !" cried Hesel-
rigge, plunging his sword in her de-
fenseless breast.
"My Wallace-to God ~ murmured
Marion, as another fendish stroke reach
ed her heart, and her pure spirit fed to
| heaven.
An aged servant escaped to the Cart
lane crags with the heartbreaking news.
"Oh, my murdered wife my unborn
babe p cried the agonized Wallace.
"Give me power, Almighty Judge, tc
avenge this angels blood, and then take
me to Thyself.'
Gathering band of sixty brave Ian
arkers, Wallace fell like thunderbolt
on Heselrigge's fortress and slew the
wretch with the same bloody sword thai
had ended Marion's life
$50 fall the enemies of Wallace J
cried his exulting followers.
"Rather so fall the enemies of Scot
land" he replied. "To work our coun
try's freedom, who will follow me %
"All 4! With Wallace forever p
The first nobleman to join this DARN!
crusade was the rescued Earl of Mar
But he was speedily captured and Both
well castle was seized by the Scotcl
Lord SOULS and the English Aymer d
Valence, both of whom had sued in vai
for the hand of the earl's daughter, tn
lovely Helen Mar. Dreading their vic
lence, she escaped with her cousin, An
drew Murray, by secret passage to tn
priory of st. Fillans. Her father an
his wife were confined at Dumbarto
castle, Wallace and his few follower
were hemmed in on the Cartlane crag
by swarms of English soldiers, and La
dy Helen, decoyed from the priory, fe
into the hands of the brutal Souli
Crossing the mountains by night, b
sought to take the utmost advantage
his helpless prisoner, whose hand W;
} raised to save her honor by plunging
) knife into her own breast. when an III
known knight suddenly fell upon hin
wounded him severely, and spirited /;
dy Helen away to a hermit's cell. III
, strange knight concealed his name, b.
both Helen and the hermit believed hi
to be young Robert Bruce.
Wallace, meanwhile, eluded his pu
suers, joined his slender forces wi
those of Andrew Murray and few OF
q er fearless Scots, and marched to alta,
e Dumbarton castle. By night the patl
OTIS scaled its walls, cut down the En-
lish garrison, and planted the roy
!, Scottish standard upon the captured ci
adel. The Earl of Mar was release
- and Edwin Rutliven, his nephew, Ii
of fifteen, was knighted for his brave
d by Wallace, to whom he attached hil
It self with more than brothers devotio
J. The earl's wife. Helen's young step-n
- ther, was seized with a passion for w;
lace, whose coldness only served to
is crease her guilty love. She persuad
D. him to escort the earl and herself
'g Rothsay castle, in the isle of Butte, VIII,
1e : she shamelessly petitioned:
( "Only give me leave to love thee, a
l shall be happy"
w He had scarcely finished rebuking
ne when messenger arrived with ne
~ that Wallace's grandfather and eights
Z. other Scottish chiefs had been treach
as ously murdered at Ayr!
fe, "This arm shall show how | lo7
that good old man p cried the afflic
IT. Wallace, and, fastening to Dumbart
H. he gathered his forces and marched
Ia stantly on Ayr. The palace was sci
he and surrounded with combustibles,