The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-25

tainerS, approach from opposita N-
lions. Each refused to the 9TH WIG
crown Of the causeway,'' ana -
usual fight took place. One sid '.'
lily shouted: "A Leslie. \ Los)taI
while the other as s~trenuous1v 49,.
out: "A Seyton. A Seyton, SCI Nv, '-'t
on" The name of Seyton was nn,l
for Roland, and in a flash. The ;r..
sive youth was fighting on the s|5
the Seytons. The magistrates u+--.'
their halberdiers, stopped tn. srl
but no before many had been wor~,'
ed. among them the Lord Seyt.n
whose life Roland ha1 the good
tune to save from the thrust of -
lie.
Scarcely had Adam done ratfnu IT,.
boy for his foolhardiness when PGrs.,
with a start, threw himself from I|.
horse in pursuit of a female ar,r.
in which he recognized Catherine g.
ton. He followed her to the house. IT,
to which she disappeared and was nke
to have been killed for his pains han
| not the Lore Seyton recognized in hin,
! the youth Who had befriended him ann
bestowed upon him his thanks and
| golden hair which he took from his
cap. Roland reported to the Regent
and was by him rent to be a page ~
the household Of the Queen, then i'm
prisoned in the castle Of Lochlaven
under the guardianship of the Re-
gents mother, the grim Lady Douglas
Having been reared in the household
of that Calvinistic knight, HaIbert
G1endinning, and by him recommend
ed, Roland was sent with the idea or
| his acting as a spy upon the Queen
When he had been taken into the
service of Halbert. Magdalen Graemr
said: Twice now has fate thrown this
youth into the service of the house.
of Avenel; let them look to the con-
sequences" When the saturniue Nor
ton saw Roland in the presence cham
Der of the Regent ne said to Murray.
IF this youth resembles as much in
craft of Disposition as he does in eye
and in brow a certain Old friend ~
ours there may be a difference be-
tween h he is and what he Gems
/ mean Julian of AVenel.' The
speeches meant nothing TO Roland at
the time-but afterWard he remomhpr-
ed them.
The night before Roland started ON
his journey to Lochleven there came
to the inn at which he stopped a youth
in a purple mantle and dressed Ike
a young lord. The young man SWaE-
gered and lashed the interiors with
his riding whip when thew stood In the
way. He swore the most fashionable
oaths and ruftied it like any courtier.
And in this youth. Roland, 10 his as
constituent, recognized Catherine SeY-
ton. lilo, Sir Holly-top,' said the
ruf1ler. Z would speak with You"
Roland stood amazed. do they un-
derstand Scotch in our COuntryr' h."
went on. 4 think we are not total
strangers to each other" ventured
Roland. w must have met in
dreams then" was the reply, "slep
hither out of hearing" And this
strange subject OF metamorphosjs dr"N
from beneath his clDak a sword in n
silver scabbard, giving it to Roland
as from the Lord SeEton upon the
condition that he would draw 1t only
at the command Of his royal mis-
tress.
Roland tried in vain to make Cath
crime admit that they had met before
but the only reply was banter and
the messenger left the mystified Rol-
and with Il staggering adjustment
of cape and rapier.
The castle Of Lochieven, k that ~
Avenel, was situated on q small island
in a lake. To it the page journeyed
in the train Of the Lords RuthVeh anu
Lindsay and Sir Robert MeINlile
When Roland was ushered into IN.
Queens presence he was asfonIahed
to see in attendance upon her MAJ
esty, Catherine Seyton, who, with tir
mature Lady Fleming, now formed
the court OF the imprisoned heir OF li'
It was i n the garden of the castle
rat Roland was presented to his roy
al mistress, a garden within the CIR
cumscribed limits of whose walls Mary
Stuart was learning to perform me
weary part OF a prisoner which, WIN
little interval. she was dooned to SUI
tain during the rest of her life. iigI
face, her form, haze been so dofp'E
Impressed upon the Imagination Una,
even at this distance of centuries III
is unnecessary to remind the mus
ginorant and uniformed reader "'
those striking traits which chaT3clSi
ize the remarkable countenah''
hich seem at once to combIn" 'l'
ideas of the majestic and the PIea@.A[
and the brilliant. Ever those VINO .''l
themselves compelled to believe All !,
much that her enemies nave cHai-
against her cannot think WIth".- -
sigh upon a c~ountenance eXpreSS''
ANYTHING rather than the foul tIJNt'