The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11

desperate members of the band was q lad known as The Whistler.
 When they arrived opposite the is- land, and took boat. a storm began to gather. The boatman suggested that by landing them on the shore of Rose heath. near a little wood. their passen- gers could take a short cut through the copse and reach the manse mori quickly than if they rowed around thf point to the usual landing place. Sir George and the minister disembarked accordingly and hurried up the hill to escape the storm.
 They walked straight into a trap. Black Duncan was lying hidden in that very wood. He had learned that the Minister would return with a great sum and had planned to rob the manse When his prey walked into his arms he attacked at once, as matter or course. Sir George drew his sword and was beating their assailants off when l The Whistler" sprang at him and stabbed him. Butler and Sir Georges servants were seized. but not before the latter had fired few shots. The noise brought some of Argyie's men. who happened to be but a short distance away. Always ready for fighting, they saw the situation at a glance and leaped in with such drastic success that in a few moments Black Duncan lay dead beside the corpse of Sir George. while The Whistler" and the others were thrown down and bound.
 It required all of Jeanie's watchfui affection to prevent Lady staunton from betraying her secret in the par- oxysms of grief that overwhelmed her when her husbands body was brought In. When at last silence and exhaus- ton succeeded to frenzy. Jeanie stole out and told her husband all. advising him to take Staunton's papers immedi- ately that no others might see them.
 Butler, amazed beyond words by Jeanie's disclosure, was still more amazed at the contents of the papers, which told him the result or Staunton's quest for his son. This amazenent was followed by horror when he reach ed the proof that the unhappy mans son. was no other than ''The Whistler and that he had killed his own father
 The lad had been tied and locked up in one of the rooms in the manse by the rough retainers of Argyle, who proposed to hang him unceremonious- ly on the following morning. The lad, little more than a savage, managed to escape, however, and gained . vessel which took him to America. He join- cd tribe of Indians and thereafter was never heard from again.
 Jeanie and her husband never told Lady Staunton about this last tragedy that crowned the past sins of her dead husband and herself. She soon rec turned to her place In society. but af- ter blazing for nearly ten years long, CT In the fashionable world she sud- denly departed for Europe and ent- cred the convent where she had been educated.
 She had heaped the people of the manse with all that she could think h-ef that might be valuable in their eyes. | Jeanie'a eldest son. David. had re. l eeived a commission through her and forged his. way rapidly in the army 1 The second son, Reuben, followed tho law. The daughter, Euphemia, whose own little fortune was augmented by her aunt's generosity. and whose bcau- ty made her the toast of the county. married a Highland laird. who neyec asked the name or station of her grandfather.
 Thus did temporal splendor. as eve fail to confer happiness; thus do th evil consequences of crimes, lks ghosts, haunt the footsteps of the malefact6r; and ever thus the paths of truth and virtue are those of pleas antness and peace.
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