“‘It was about this time, a year ago, I believe, that David was murdered.’
“After she had gone, there was a great explosion, and Darnley’s dead body was found in a neighboring garden.
“Mary had had her revenge.
“Three months after the tragedy she married Bothwell, who had secured a divorce from his young wife to prepare the way for the event.
FRANCIS II. AND MARY STUART LOVE-MAKING.
“Scotland rose against Mary. She fled to England, and threw herself on the protection of Elizabeth, abdicating the throne in favor of her son. She was secured as a prisoner, and confined at Carlisle. She was taken from Carlisle to Fotheringhay Castle. She was at last tried [!-- original location of 'Francis II and Mary Stuart' --] [!-- blank page --] for conspiracy against the life of Elizabeth. Sentence of death was passed 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 his marriage with Mary.
“It is said that it was found, after her execution, that her real hair, under her wig, was as white as that of a woman of seventy. I cannot wonder.