. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. nd and I. ngland was horn. You have seen his birthplace to-day. ? l\ months passed. Earl Bothwell, a profligate noble, had won the Queens confidence. There i> little doubt that the two formed a plot to darnleys life. The Queen went t \i>it Darnley at Glasgow, he having fallen ill,pretended great affection for him. and brought him to KtlinburghlI lodgings for him in a private She left him late onening, t attend a marriage feast. to him. in one of their last interviews,—It was about this time, a war ago, I believe, t
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. nd and I. ngland was horn. You have seen his birthplace to-day. ? l\ months passed. Earl Bothwell, a profligate noble, had won the Queens confidence. There i> little doubt that the two formed a plot to darnleys life. The Queen went t \i>it Darnley at Glasgow, he having fallen ill,pretended great affection for him. and brought him to KtlinburghlI lodgings for him in a private She left him late onening, t attend a marriage feast. to him. in one of their last interviews,—It was about this time, a war ago, I believe, that I >avid was had gone, there was a greal explosion, and I >arnleyj- found in a neighboring garden.• Mary had had br month- the tragedy -he married llothwell, who hac from his young wife to prepare the way tor the event insl Mary, she fled to England, and threw her] die protection of Elizabeth, abdicating the throne in lavor o| as a prisoner, and confined at Carlisle. I •aken fr I Fotheringl -tie. She was at last tri. FRANCIS II. AND MARY STUART LOVE-MAKING. STORY TELLIXG IN EDINBURGH. qT for conspiracy against the life of Elizabeth. Sentence of death waspassed upon her. She protested her innocence. You know the rest,—the last tragedy of all, in the Castle of Fotheringhay. Bothwell died an exile and a madman, some nine years after hismarriage with Mary. It is said that it was found, after her execution, that her real hair,.inder her wig, was as white as that of a woman of seventy. I cannotwonder. She had one little friend who remained true to the last. It wasler little dog. He followed her to the block, and cowered, frightened,inder her dress, at the fatal moment, and lay down beside her headless)ody when the last tragedy was over. It could not be driven awayrom its mistress; and when the body was removed it began to droop,is though understanding its loss, and in two days it died. I have spoken at school a poem by Buhver Lytton, founded onhe incident, said Wylly
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