Connecticut western news., 1920-06-24

Nicol Muschat's Cairn, beneath Saint
 Anthony's chapel"
 After attempting in vain to induce
 Jeanie to explain the message, he re-
 turned to visit Fife again, in the Tol-
 booth, only to be compelled, on his ar
 'ival there, to tell the whole story
 est he be convicted of guilt in the POrteOus affair. And then he was sent home, under bail not to leave Libber-
 .on, nor to communicate with any
 member of the family of Fife Deans.
 But if his experiences were to him
 incomprehensible they were by no
 means so to the authorities. By piec-
 ng together his testimony with those
 of others, they rightly determined that
 he stranger in the I-ing's park, the l eader of the Porteous mob, and the
 father of Effie's child were one and | the same person; namely, Geordie 1 Robertson, comrade of Wilson the i smuggler, and but lately escaped from
 he very prison in which Fife Deans
 was now confined. Accordingly, they
 planned to capture him that night at Muschat's Cairn. But before they could reach that place, Robertson had ,ime to beg Jeanie to save her sister
 1t the trial by testifying that Fife had disclosed to her her condition. Then
 le escaped.
 Merely that slight falsehood would
 nave removed the case of Fife Deans rom under the letter of the cruel
 Scotch statute. But Jeanie, steadfast-
 y, devoutly truthful was utterly un- lble to placate her conscience in bear
 ng false witness. Nor could the dis appointment of Fife herself, whom she vas at last permitted to visit in the 'trong-room of the prison, alter her resolution. "He wanted that I suld )e mansworn," she said. 'I told him
 hat I daurna swear to an untruth."
 At the trial, when Jeanie was brought in to testify, Fife, in human
 weakness, cried, 70 Jeanie, Jeanie,
 ave mel" But when the solemn oath, -"the truth to tell, and no truth to conceal, as far as she knew or was lsked," was administered "in the name if God, and as the witness should an- jwer to God at the great day of judg- hChLs OCdhlCs EduNdlCu oCCp ICfSI- ,nce for the name of the deity, was 'levated above all considerations save hose which she could, with a clear 'onscience, call Him to witness. And when the advocate came at length to he point of asking her, "what your
 ister said ailed her when you in- Iuired?" Jeanie could only answer, nothing" When the sentence was pronounced by the doomsman, Effie's ,wn eyes were the only dry ones in he court. God forgive ye, my lords," he said, "and dinna be angry wi me or wishin' tive a need forgiveness
 The next morning found Jeanie Deans travelling alone and afoot on he long road to London "to see the Queens face that gives grace" and ,eg for her sisters pardon. Her tar an screen served all the purposes of . riding habit, and of an umbrella; mall bundle contained such changes f linen as were absolutely necessary. ;he hadt few guineas, and a letter rom Reuben Butler to the Duke of Argyle, whose grandfather had been lnder obligations of the deepest to he famous Bible Butler, grandfather if the poor stant-schoolmaster, now ick at Libberton.
 She passed luckily, on the whole, through so weary and dangerous a ourney, and at length, through the 1 ntercessiOn of the duke, secured the 'ardon which she sought.
 Before she reached Scotland again, TAno ho1 o1a ho,, vas in reality George Staunton, son if an English nobleman. The sisters, vhO had last met when Fife was sit- ing on the bench of the condemned, | lid not meet again for many years, 1 ,hough Lady Staunton wrote some imes to Jeanie-now Mrs. Butler, vife of MT. Reuben Butler, pastor of Inocktarlitie
 Finally, by chance, Sir George earned that Meg Murdockson, who had i attended Fife in her illness, had not the child, as they had al- ways supposed. He traced the boy to l certain troop of vagabonds, of which Black Donald was the chief. In an lffray with Black Donald's men, Sir George was shot by young lad called | the Whistler" who proved to be the lost son. The lad disappeared, and to America. Lady Staunton, overcome by the tragedy, after vain efforts to drown her grief in society, retired to a convent in France. AL though she took no VOWS, she remained : there until her death. But her in- duence at court accomplished much for the children of her sister Jeanie, who lived happily on in the good par ish with which the bounty of the Duke of Argyle had provided her hus- band.
 The Heart of Midlothian is notable for having rather fewer important | characters, a smaller variety of incl dents, and less description of scenery than most of ScOtt's novels. One of