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 time to reward his preserver, gave him a paper, in which the duke's relations or descendants were urgently requested. if ever an opportunity offered to repay the obligation. Butler used every argument in his power to dissuade her from her undertaking. But Jeanie was not to be diverted from her purpose; and Butler at last consented to deliver to her the paper by means of which she hoped to procure the interest of the Duke of Argyle.

It would be useless to follow our heroine through all her journeyings. Suffice it to say that she reached London in about a fortnight and procured an audience of the Duke of Argyle, who received her with that kindness and affability for which he was so distinguished. She told him that she was the sister of that unfortunate criminal, Effie Deans, who had been condemned to death at Edinburgh, and that she had come up from the north to see what could be done in the way of getting a pardon for her. "Young woman, said the duke, you suppose me to have influence which I do not possess. I have no means of averting your sister's fate. And you know that it is the law of both God and man that the murderer shall die."—"But my puir sister canna be proved to be a murderer, sir, as you will see by these papers." Here Jeanie presented a copy of the evidence and her sister's declaration, which Butler had procured and transmitted to London. “And here's a line frae your ain grandsire, o blessed memory, she continued, that maybe will gang farther than ony thing I can say." "This is my unfortunate grandfather's hand, sure enough, said the duke, and a strong injunction indeed. Sit down, my god girl, till I glance over these papers."