The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-15
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/ While he was speaking men. APP
preached. II dare not stay" whis-
pered he. "'Your sisters fate is in
your hands," He disappeared in the
thickets, leaving ,sJeanie's heart
shaken by the knowledge that: she
could save her darling sister from a.
frightful doom for committing a per-
jury for which all the world would
forgive her. ...' ~.
Before long, lawyers, prison attend
ants and at last Effie herself, desper7
ate with fear, begged her to bear tes-
ttmony that would save her. %"Oh, If
it stude WI me to save her wi risk
of my life!" cried Jeanne. But the
word Is grievous SIM" The poor
lass sank down; on her knees in
prayer. - :. ::S'' ~ - N* :: !:
And suddenly. as she: laid all her
pure and simple heart before her
Creator there came to her, like a sun
blink on asstormy sea, a strong per
suasion that she could work out her
sisters delivery without sin. From
that moment she was firm in her
plan. - ..-... - +:
It carried : her even through the
dreadful ordeal of the trial, when her
sisters counsel placed. her on the
stand and strove to elicit from. her
fessed 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 supplication
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 hope to which he was clinging
unconsciously and despite himself.
Jeanie became as pale as her sis
ter: With:a faint voice she replied:
"Alack! Alack! She never breathed
a 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. -. 49,. -. -: =.
The presiding Judge wiped his eyes,
and 1t was not until the stricken man
and Jeanne 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 .Efie was SEN
fenced to DEATH as *:>:a.- r.: r.
Meantime, even wAi the doQmster
was pronouncing:x =, the words: of SEN
tence in court, Jeanne was, making
ready to. carry out her. plan. She
prayed her father .esfor' his blessing,
and visited her sister in prison. Then
She made arrangements for the old
mans comfort while she was gone;
for Jeanne intended, nothing less than
to walk to Lond on to beg; the duke of
Argyle to take her to the king that
she might ask a pardon for. her sister.
= The simplicity 1T her, education and
iof her country made. her travelling
preparations very Brief and easy; Her
tartan served her for all the purposes
of garment and shelter. A small
bundle contained changes of linen.
Shoes and snow-white stockings were
wrapped in 1t for occasions OF cere-
mony, for her pilgrimage was to- be
made :bare-footed. Her money was
scanty. but she had sufficient to carry
her through in the simple way In
which she was to traYel -
She left letter behind for her
father, praying him to. forgive Fife
and to intercede with God for a
happy issue to her errand. Then she
set forth, stopping on the: way. in
Reuben Buffers village to say fare
we'll to him. Butler, a minister with
out charge, was desperately poor,
even for the poor country in which he
dwelled; but he gave Jeanne letter
that was to prove more valuable than
money, could have been, though they
esteemed it of little worth at the
time.
It was a letter written by the
grandfather of the duke and given by
him to Benjamin Butler, Reuben's
grandfather, in the time of the perse-
cutfons. Benjamin Butler, better
known in history as Bible Butler,
serving in Monks >regiment of dra-
goons, had saved the ancestor of Ar
gyle from death in grim pass when
four English troopers we're about to
slay him. After recounting this deed,
the letter read: ~" - =
Having no other present recon-
pense in my power, give him this
enlargement, and do conjure my
friends, tenants, kinsmen and who.
ever will do aughte for me, either IN
the Lowlands or the Highlands, to
protect and assist the said BENJAMIN
Butler and his friends. and family,
giving them such countenance and
supply as may correspond with the
benefit he hath bestowed upon me-: ~
- LORNE."
With strong heart and frame
patient of fatigue, Jeanne Deans, trav-
cling at the rate of 20 miles a day
and sometimes further, traversed the
southern part of Scotland and entered
England. There she observed that
her bare feet and tartan screen at
tracted sarcastic attention. SO. she
conformed to the national extrava-
gance Of wearing shoes and stockings
for the whole day, which, besides the
! wastefulness, impeded her walking.
But she went steadily on, finding the
common people in England not un-
kind. though inferior in courtesy. She
obtained food and. shelter readily
everywhere for. small sums, and It
happened often that folk gave her