The Press., 1914-09-02

My home your worship. is in Bon. nie Scotland, where all maids are mcr. ry and all young men are brave. My father was laird, and my mother wns the daughter of chief. My father was killed in battle. and my mother died of a broken heart. The good God who brought such trials on them and me gave me Il cheerful heart tO bear 1t all, since l must live. After my fa- ther and mother were taken away from me my Uncle Roderick shut me up in q room in the castle and one night put me in Il coach and brought me to ship. where he left me. What he did all this unkindness for I dinna ken. But since the good God intend ed that I should live through all the troubles in Bonnie Scotland I dinna think he'll let you burn me for a witch"
 This speech excited the sympathy of , all, and had it not been that Katherine had been duly convicted the judge might have had mercy on her. But he | did what he conceived to be his duty, sentencing her to be burned at the stake the next day.
 Richard CoverIeigh. one of the young men whom Katherine had bewitched. heard her speech and. since the Puri- tans were prone to consider that they were appointed to special purposes by Providence. believed in his heart that he was commissioned to save the las sic he loved in his heart. He was a younger son of Il British earl and had been sent to America that he might not disgrace his family by poverty. all the estate being entailed to his older brother But he was more fitted for deeds of knight errantry than the com mOnplace duties of the peaceful settlers of a new country, though he had done some service in fighting hostile Indians. Katherine was confined ill one of the two rooms of Deacon Padelford's cab. in, which served for dining room and kitchen. The fireplace was one of the olden type, very broad, and the chim- ney very large. Behind the cabin was grove, and one of the trees grew so near 1t that its branches overhung the | abode. Near midnight, when Katherine was sleeping serenely, undisturbed by the terrible ordeal in store for her on | the morrow. she was suddenly awak- ened by hand being clapped over her | mouth.
 Be still,' whispered mans voice in her ear. "I have come to save you"
 She could not have cried out if she would. The hand was soon removed, and the voice continued:
 "Arise and put on your clothes. You | will find under the chimney rope with loop. Put the loop under your arms, and when feel by the rope that you are on 1t I will pull you up into tree that overhangs the cabin"
 "Who are you?" whispered Rather he.
 "Ric Coverleigh."
 Katherine felt for his hand and pressed it; then he left her, climbed the rope hand over hand and waited, standing on the chimney top. When Katherine had dressed, making no noise i'll doing so, she put the loop over her shoulders, and Coverleigh. feel ing that it was caught pulled her up to him. and. she catching to limb of the tree above, he helped her up on it. Tn q few minutes both had descended the tree and stood upon the ground.
 Richard Coverleigh, being fond of the water, had built himself a small boat with single sail. and any contribution he made to the wealth of the settle ment was by fishing. He had in this way gathered some f40, which he would doubtless have spent had there been anything to spend 1t for. With this money in his doublet he took Kath- erine to his boat and with untitled oars pulled out to where he caught breeze; then, raising his sail, he entered upon the broad ocean.
 Fortunately the weather was pleas ant and the wind favorable for a sail to Boston, not far distant. Ric did not know what he would do when he reached Boston. He relied on the Lord to guide him. He was about entering the harbor in the morning when a ship bound for England approached. He hailed her and asked to be taken aboard, offering the captain all the money he had to carry him and his shipmate with him. The offer was accepted. Ric ran alongside the ship. and the two climbed aboard. Then the boat was turned adrift and at the hour Katherine was to have been burned at the stake she had begun her voyage homeward.
 On the ocean Katherine and Cover leigh compared notes and found that their circumstances were sinnlar Katherine's uncle had dispossessed her of her estate, he being next of kin and consequently heir at her death. IT had given out that she had died. b r