fs and sympathies lay.

There was little difficulty in getting the fifteen jurymen, and, as I
was taken away to be sequestered, a thing happened which I tell for the
love I have of human nature. There was a commotion at the door of the
court-room, and I heard the macer's tones threatening some one, and
then a clear voice crying:

"If you don't let me in I'll break every bone in your body," and Billy
Deuceace, hard-ridden and disheveled, elbowed his way to the railing
itself and held out both hands to Danvers.

"Couldn't get here any sooner, old man," he cried. "Have ridden all
night! Just came up to say it's all damned nonsense, you know!" he
finished, and I felt that a happier beginning could scarce have
occurred for us.

I was not in the court-room when the case opened, and by this reason am
forced for information to the papers recording the case, which forms
one of the _causes celebres_ of Scottish legal history. Even at this
distance of time, at sight of these old files I feel again the
helplessness and miserable sinking of heart which I felt the first time
I read the indictment of Pitcairn against the boy whom I loved, no
matter what he had done; and I write it again, no matter what he had
done.

"The trial of Danvers Carmichael for the murder of John Stewart
Aglionby Montrose, Duke of Borthwicke, Ardvilarchan, and Drumblaine in
the Muirs, Lord of, etc., before the Lord-President Carew, beginning
Tuesday, March tenth, 1788.

_Counsel for the Crown_

Mr. Pitcairn
Mr. Inge

_Solicitor_

Mr. Caldicott

_For the Prisoner_

Mr. Magendie
Mr. Elliott

_Solicitor_

Mr. Witmer

taken in shorthand by John Gurney of London.

"After addressing the bench, the case was opened for the prosecution by
Mr. Pitcairn, as follows:

"GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY:

"The crime imputed to the prisoner at the bar is that of wilful
murder, effected by means and in a manner most abhorred. Such an
accusation naturally excites the indignation of honest minds
against the criminal. I will not endeavor to increase it, and it is
your duty to resist it and to investigate and determine the case
wholly upon the evidence which will be placed before you.

"On the night of the twenty-third of February, 1788, John Stewart
Aglionby Montrose, Duke of Borthwicke, was found, between the hours
of midnight and one of the morning, dead in a desk-chair, in a