The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-28

the work, and have oftentlmes re-
GREETED thy killing. For that and all
the deeds OF this life shall answer to
thou have with me? What hast thou
to do with me? Had 1t been the other
way, and had fallen at Drumclog. 1
had not troubled thee or any OF thy
Kind"
Nor had i been minded or allowed to
visit thee, John Graham, II I had fallen
in fair Tight. contending for Christ's
Kirk, but these wounds upon my head
and breast speak not OF war, but OF
murder. Because thou didst murder
Christ's confessors, and the souls of the
am come to show thee things which are
to be and the doing OF Him who saith,
Il will avenge.' Ye have often said go,
and he goeth. and come and he cometh,
and see things that Will shake even thy
bold heart" And so in vision they
went.
Claverhouse was standing in a coun-
try kirkyard, and at the hour OF sunset.
Round him were ancient graves with
stones whose inscriptions had been
worn away by rough weather, and upon
which the grass was growing rank.
They were the resting places OF past
generations, whose descendants had
died out and whose names were for
may have been mighty people. Before
it belonged to his house. There lay his
father, and there he had laid his
to rest. taken. az he often thought;
from the evil to come. The ground
had been stirred again, and there was
another grave. 1t was OF tiny size. not
and one that had died in its infancy.
1t was carefully tended, as If the
mother still lived and had not yet for
gotten her child. AT the sight OF 1t
nd n h0
side.
..Ye mean not
Read" said the Coyenanter, FOR the
writing surely Is plain And this is
what Claverhouse saw:
JAMES GRAHAhE.
Only son and child of my Lord Dundie.
Aged eight months
"Ye longed for him, and we were
proud OF him. and if the sword of the
righteous should slay. thee. ye boosted
in your heart that there was man
child to continue your line. But there
shall be none. and thine evil house
shall die from out the land. IKE the
persecuted the saints. Fathers have
seen their sons heads hung above the
West Port to bleach in the sun FOR the
sake OF the Covenant. and mothers
the dungeon of the Bass and wearied
for death. This is the cup We are
drinking this night before the time.
for. behold, thou hast harried many
homes but thy house shall be left unto
For brief space clayerliouse bent
his head. for he seemed to feel the
child in his arms; as ne had nelu hi Inn
rallied his manhood. who had never
been given to quail before the hardest
strokes of fortune.
"God rest his innocent Soul. II TINS De
,ot. hut
"Yea. thou Invest" said the shade.
land It has been Stumbling BLOCK to
many that thou vert spared 30 long,
but the day Of vengeance is at hand.
Come again with me-"
Ciayerhouse finds himself now on
plain, with the hills above and Ar river
hand, and he knows that this Is the
battlefield Of tomorrow. They are
standing together on mound which
the body OF q man Is lying. a cloth
covers his face, but by the uniform and
arms Clayerhouse knows that 1t Is that
of an officer of rank, and one that has
A dint upon the cuirass and the sight
of the sword by his side catch his eye,
and he shudders.
.'This-do / see myself?"
Eyes, thou seest thyself lying low as
the humblest man. and weaker now
than the poorest of Gods people thou
djdst mock
1T is not other than I expected, nor
does this make me afraid. and ! Judge
thou art lying spirit, for ] see no
wound. Lift up the cloth. Nor any
mark upon my face. had not died FOR
nothing"
May, thou hadst been ready to die
in the heat OF battle facing thy foe. for
there has ever been In thee bold
heart: but thy wound is not in front.
as mine is. See We, Claverhouse, thou
hast been killed from behind" And
Clavehouse saw where the blood, escap-
ing from wound near the armpit, had
stained the grass: AYE. some one Of
thine own. and riding near beside thee.
found that place, and as thou didst
raise thine arm to call thy soldiers to
the slaughter Of them who are contend
ing for the right. thou vast cunningly
stricken unto death. BY a towards blow
thou hast fallen, 0 valiant man! and
there will be none to mourn thy doom.
for thou hast been a man of blood from
thy youth up. even unto this day"
Thou lest there, and art a false