Connecticut western news., 1920-06-24
ME Heart of Midlothian, by many called the finest of the
 WaYerleY Novels. was nnh-

NHE Heart of Midlothian, by
 many called the finest of the
 Waverley Novels, was pub zAfied anonymously in 1818 It takes 4s name from the TOlbooth, or, old city Sr2 in Edinburg (pulled down in &r5), the "stony heart" of Midlothian, &hfch reared its ancient front in the BRsy middle of the High street of the Ny.
 On the afternoon of September 8, EGs6, Reuben Butler, assistant-master E the school at Libberton, and licensed 7knfster of the gospel, found himself m unexpected trou' .e. First of all, Ae had become entangled with the sEuwd of good citizens of Edinburg R1ffeY Grassmarket, murmuring. at the Drstponement of the execution of Cap sRin John Porteous of the City Guard. They were still in the heat of anger rva1T the events of the preceding day, zAen POrteous had ordered his men B fire, and had fired himself. upon Rg crowd, some of whom were at Knptfng to cut down the body of ASssCGtcho Wilson, the famous smuggler. Several innocent citizens had been xzKed. Now that the chief offender Rsmed likely to escape, there was no SBCwing what the mob might do. The Trket young pedagogue would gladly .Mye returned to Libberton. Then, to afs consternation, he learned that Fife Beans, the younger and more charming Iater of his sweetheart Jeanie Deans, HRs imprisoned in the Tolbooth.
 When he had last seen Fife, more 4mn a year before, she had been a 5H1utiful and blooming girl, the lily nf Saint Leonard's. Many a traveller 9gst her fathers cottage had stopped his horse on the eve of entering Edin- nrrg to gaze at her as she ripped by hsn, with her milk-pail poised on her tDead, bearing herself so erect, and stepping so light and free under her sgzrden that it seemed rather an orna- Eent than an encumbrance. Now the @Sor girl, scarce eighteen years of age. EEy in the Tolbooth, charged with child Mnrder.
 The facts were that after working Err a time in a shop in Edinburg, the Eahappy prisoner had disappeared for Ehe space of week, and then made her appearance before her sister at Saint Leonards in a state that had Usndered Jeanie only too certain of Mer misfortune But to all questions Ene had remained mute as the grave, VG1til the officers of justice had come ao apprehend her.
 Before Reuben Butler could see her, fife Tolbooth was closed; and before hs could escape from the city crowd af rioters compelled him to return with fkem to the jail and administer the Inst rites to Porteous, whom they dragged forth to death.
 The leader of the mob, a young man disguised in woman's clothes, seized n moment in the midst of the turmoil in the jail to beg Fife to escape. "For &sd's sake-for your own sake-for my sake-fee, or they'll take your Hfe," was all that he had time to say.
 The girl gazed after him for a mo- ment, and then, faint1y muttering, Better tyne life, since tint is gude fame," she sunk her head upon her Rand, and remained, seemingly, as un- conscious as statue, of the noise and fHmult which passed around her.
 In the morning, on his way to see Ieanie and her father at Saint Leon- ards, Butler encountered in the Kings park young man of noble bearing, K~s4