The daily Alaskan., 1920-07-08

seemed nKeiy to escape. there was no moving what the mob might do. The luiet young pedagogue would gladly nave returned to LlbbertOn. Then, to nIs consternation, he learned that Ellie Deans, the younger and more charming lister of his sweetheart Jeanie Deans, was imprisoned in the Tolbooth.
 When he had last seen Fife, more .han a year before. she had been a beautiful and blooming girl, the lily pf Saint Leonard's. Many traveller past her fathers cottage had stopped his horse on the eve of entering Edin- burg, to gaze at her as she ripped by him, with her milk-pail poised on her head, bearing herself so erect, and stepping SO light and free. under her burden that 1t seemed rather an orna- ,nent than an encumbrance. Now the poor girl, scarce eighteen years of age, lay in the Tolbooth, charged with child murder.
 The facts were that after working for a time in a shop in Edinburg, the unhappy prisoner had disappeared for the space of a week, and then made her appearance before her sister at Saint Leonards in a state, that had rendeeed Jeanle only too certain Of her misfortune. But to all questions she had remained mute as the grave, until the officers of justice had come La o0NrahapJ har-
 Before Reuben Butler could see her, the Tolhooth was closed; and before he could escape from the city crowd of rioters compelled him to return with them to the jail and administer the last rites to Porteous, whom they dragged forth to death.
 The leader of the mob, young man disguised In woman's clothes, seized a moment in the midst of the turmoil In the jail to beg Ellie to escape. "For Gods sake-for your own sake-for my sake-fee, or they'll take your life" was all that he had time to say.
 The girl gazed after him for mo- ment, and then, faintly muttering Better tyne life,g since tint Is gude fame," she sunk her head upon her hand, and remained, seemingly, as un- conscious as statue. of the noise and tumult which passed around her.
 In the morning, on his way to see Jeanie and her father at Saint Leon- ards, Butler encountered In the Kings park a young man of noble bearing, but strangely agitated, who bade him 'tell Jeanle Deans that, when the moon rises, l shall expect to meet her at 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 rival there, to tell the whole story lest he be convicted of guilt In the Porte0us affair. And then he was sent home, under ball not to leave Llbber' ton, nor to communicate with any member of the family of Ellie Deans J But If his experiences were to him incomprehensible they were by nc means so to the authorities. By plec' ing together his testimony with those of others, they rightly determined that the stranger In the Kings park, the leader of the Porteous mob, and the father of Efle's child were one and the same person; namely, Geordie Robertson, comrade Of Wilson the .smuggler, and but lateiy escaped from the 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. thnt place, Robertson had time to beg Jeanie to save her sister at the trial. by ,testitying that Fife had disclosed to her her condition. Then he escaped.
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