The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11

counsel placed her on the stand and strove to elicit from her testimony to show that Fife had confessed to her.
 When he asked her the question on
 which her sisters life depended an awful
 and profound hush fell on the crowded court. The prisoners pale face looked at her with application and terror Even
 the gray-haired father so stout in his faith that he would rather have faced the rack than utter an untruth, leaned forward with a hope to which he was clinging unconsciously and despite him. self.
 Jeane became as pale as her sister. With faint voice she replied: "Alack, Alackl She never breathed word to me about It."
 A groan seemed to come from judges and spectators simultaneously. David Deans fell forward senseless, with his white head at his daughters feet.
 The presiding judge wiped his eyes, and it was not until the stricken man and Jeanie had been led away that he could control himself sufficiently to conduct the rest of the trial. The jury required little time to return the verdict of guilty, and Fife was sentenced to death.
 Meantime even while the doomster was pronouncing the words of sentence in court. Jeanie was making ready to carry out her plan. She prayed her father for his blessing and visited her sister in prison. Then she made arrangements for the old mans comfort while she was gone; for Jeanie intended nothing less than to walk to London to beg the Duke of Argyle to take her to the King that she might ask pardon for her sister,
 The simplicity of her education and of her country made her travelling prepara- tions very brief and easy. Her tartan served her for all the purposes of gar ment and shelter A small bundle con tained changes of linen. Shoes and snow white stockings were wrapped in it for occasions of ceremony, for her pilgrim age was to be made bare-footed. Her money was scanty. but she had suffi- cient to carry her through in the simple way in which she was to travel.
 She left a letter behind for her fath- er praying him to forgive Fife and to intercede with God for happy issue to her errand Then she set forth, stopping on the way in Reuben Buffers village to say farewell to him. Butler, minister without a charge, was des- perately poor, even for the poor coun- try in which he dwelled; but he gave Jeanie a letter that was to prove more valuable than money could have been though they esteemed it of little worth at the time.
 It was letter written by the grand ia ther of the Duke and given by him to Benjamin Butler, Reuben's grand father, in the time of the persecutions Benjamin Butler, better known Tn his tory as Bible Butler, serving In Monks regiment of dragoons, had saved the ancestor of Argyle from death in a grim pass when four English troopers were about to s1ay him. After re- counting this deed, the letter read: Having no other present recompense in my power, give him this acknowl-
 edgment. and do conjure my friends. | tenants, kinsmen and whoever will do aught for me, either in the Lowlands or the Highlands. to protect and ossist the said Benjamin Butler and his | friends and family. giving them such countenance and supply as may cor respond with the benefit he hath be- slowed upon me- LORNE." With strong heart and frame patient of fatigue. Jeanie Deans, trav- cling at the rate of 20 miles a day and | sometimes further. traversed the south : ern part of Scotland and entered Eng land. There she observed that her bare l feet and tartan screen attracted sar- castle attention. So she confefmed to the national extravaganceA of wearing shoes and stockings for the whole day which, besides the wastefuiness, im-