There help was sent to the old Highlander,
but no doctor could undo the ill that had been wrought him, and he died
a few days later. In one of the Kirkton farm-carts the old man's
murderer was conveyed to Hawick, and from thence to Jedburgh jail. It
was too much a case of "hot trod" for him to do anything but plead
guilty, and he hung on a gallows at Jedburgh, as many a worthier man had
done in earlier days. The laird lived for more than twenty years after
his man hunt on that March day in 1813, and his worthy fellow-huntsman
had no cause to forget his morning's work, for he was presented with a
baton and relieved from paying taxes for the rest of his natural life.
LADY STAIR'S DAUGHTER
The story of the Bride of Lammermoor is one that all the world knows,
but how many are there who realise that the tragedy which Sir Walter
Scott's genius has given to the world is in truth one of the annals of a
noble Scottish family? Possibly among all the "old, unhappy, far-off
things" there is none more pitiful than the tale of the Earl of Stair's
daughter and her luckless lover, Lord Rutherfurd.
They were never laggards either in love or in war, those Border
Rutherfurds. "A stout champion," according to contemporary history, was
Colonel Andrew Rutherfurd, Governor of Dunkirk, and afterwards of
Tangier, ennobled for his doughty deeds in foreign lands under the title
of Earl of Teviot, and when, in 1664, he was slain by the Moors, his
distant relative, Lord Rutherfurd, inherited most of his fortune.
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