The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-26
GREAT LOVE
STORIES
of HISTORY
Mary, Queen of Scots. and
Boutwell,
BY Albert Payson Terhune
lCsp, r.SAt. ~ Tie AutAss.,

the least fascinating The woman
was Mary Queen of Scots. The mai
was her husband. James Hepburn
earl of Boutwell,.
Mary inherited the crown of SEQ,
land. In early youth she married
King Francis ii. OF France. He die,
and she came back TO rule her owl
country. The gay. frivolous Frencl
ture. With the harsh, grave. quarrel
some Scots who now surrounded hel
she had nothing in common. Sh,
shocked them. They bored her. Fol
state reasons she married her cousin
young Lord Darnley. He was a big
awkward. stupid. weak fellow whom
Mary grew to despise. He was des
perately afraid of her. and was Jealous
as we'll. He had ample cause for both
emotions. The marriage was unhap,
py. So was Mary's whole reign. Sh.
disliked her people. They distrusted
her. From the first everything seemed
to go wrong.
1t was when Affairs were At their
worst that Boutwell, doomed up big on
the political horizon. Though Of high
rank. he was a rufian adventurer. who
had more than once been mixed up in
reasonable and other unlawful esca-
pades. Darnle y
49," az. murdered Rizzio.
." '>''s"'''''' the queens elder
ly secretary. and in a ut Of rage
sought Mary's death or imprisonment
Boutwell,. with strong army at his
back, interfered in her behalf. He
also helped to stir her dislike for
Darnley into hatred. Soon afterward
Darnley was assassinated. There can
be no doubt that Boutwell, caused his
murder or that Mary knew beforehand
what fate the earl had plotted for her
young husband. With Darnley out Of
the way all was clear sailing for Both
we'll. He had gained tremendous in
f1uence over the queen. Where other
men hattered her he bullied her
Where others begged for her favor
Boutwell, brutally demanded it. He
was her master by sheer force Of will
and rough strength. This sort of man
appealed to Mary's tickle heart She
loved him more and more devotedly
the more brutal treatment she re-
ceived at his hands. Whatever orders
he gave she meekly obeyed It was
another case Of Beauty and the Beast.
Directly after Darnley's murder
Boutwell, planned a master stroke in
his game Of courtship and statecraft
AS Mary was riding back to Edin.
burgh on April -. 1867. from . visit
to her infant son (who was afterward
James l. of England), Boutwell,. at the
head of an armed force, met her and
carried her away to Dunbar castle.
Though this daring act was supposed
to be nothing less than q piece of law.
less kidnapping. it is more than prob
able that Mary not only freely con-
sented to the scheme. but had helped
to plan it. At any rate. she made no
resistance. Boutwell, promptly di.
vorced his faithful wife, and on May
Is. 1867 (barely three months after
Darnley's DEATH. he and Mary were
married. Mary had meanwhile made
Boutwell, duke of Orkney. But he was,
to all intents and purposes. the real
ruler Of Scotland. When he and Mary
appeared in public he used to hold
his cap in his hand to show he was
her subject. But Mary would snatch
the cap from him and put it on his
head to indicate that he was her
equal. He tyrannized over her and be.
haved toward her With none of the
courtesy or deferente due her rank.
He had apparently won his life's ambi.
ton and no longer troubled to show
civility to the woman to whom he
owed all. But the more cruelty he
treated her the more Mary loved him.
The Scotch lords hated Boutwell,
and had no idea of accepting him as
their ruler. They rose in arms and
took Mary away from him. She es-
capped from them disguised as q boy
and Joined Boutwell,. Then the lords
marched against the lovers in open
warfare. Boutwell,. who was as brave
as he was brutal. offered to settle the
III. End =, quarrel by single
~ combat with any
'"' 'o ch ampion the
lords might name. The challenge
was rejected. The queens followers
deserted her. She was at the lords
mercy.
Hemmed in and unable to escape,
she kissed Boutwell, good-by with
many tears and surrendered to her
foes. Boutwell,, seeing all was lost,
deserted her, and. slipping through
the enemy's lines, escaped to Norway.
There he was captured. and died in
sane in a Scandinavian prison. Mary
was dethroned. She fed for protection
to England. There Queen Elizabeth
cast her into prison and later had her
beheaded.
But. Indirectly. the Scotch queen
was avenged. Her descendants. the
Stuart kings, misruled England and
tby their fickleness and other evil
qualities inherited from Nary made