“Here is a list of the murdered chiefs, and of those who are in the dungeons2, expecting the like treatment,” continued Graham, holding out a parchment; “it was given to me by my faithful servant.” Wallace took it, but seeing his grandfather’s name at the top, he could look no further; closing the scroll3, “Gallant4 Graham,” said he, “I want no stimulus5 to urge me to the extirpation6 I meditate7. If the sword of Heaven be with us, not one perpetrator of this horrid8 massacre9 shall be alive tomorrow to repeat the deed.”
“What massacre?” Edwin ventured to inquire. Wallace put the parchment into his hand. “A list of the Scottish chiefs murdered on the 18th of June, 1297, in the Judgment10 Hall of the English Barons11 at Ayr,” his cheek, paled by the suspense12 of his mind, now reddened with the hue13 of indignation; but when the venerated14 name of his general’s grandfather met his sight, his horror struck eye sought the face of Wallace; it was dark as before, and he was now in earnest discourse15 with Graham.
Forbearing to interrupt him, Edwin continued to read over the blood-registered names. In turning the page, his eye glanced to the opposite side; and he saw at the head of “A list of prisoners in the dungeons of Ayr,” the name of “Lord Dundaff” and immediately after it, that of “Lord Ruthven!” He uttered a piercing cry; and extending his arms to Wallace, who turned round at so unusual a sound, the terror-struck boy exclaimed, “My father is in their hands! Oh! If you are indeed my brother, fly to Ayr, and save him!”
Wallace took up the open list which Edwin had dropped; he saw the name of Lord Ruthven amongst the prisoners; and folding his arms round this affectionate son, “Compose yourself,” said he, “it is to Ayr I am going; and if the God of Justice be our speed, your father and Lord Dundaff shall not see another day in prison.”
Edwin threw himself on the neck of his friend; “My benefactor16!” was all he could utter. Wallace pressed him silently to his bosom17.
“Who is this youth?” inquired Graham; “to which of the noble companions of my captive father is he son?”
“To William Ruthven,” answered Wallace; “the valiant18 lord of the Carse of Gowry. And it is a noble scion19 from that glorious root. He it was that enabled me to win Dumbarton. Look up, my brother!” cried Wallace, trying to regain20 so tender a mind from the paralyzing terrors which had seized it; “Look up, and hear me recount the first fruits of your maiden21 arms, to our gallant friend.
Covered with blushes, arising from anxious emotion, as well as from a happy consciousness of having wont22 he praises of his general, Edwin rose from his breast, and bowing to Sir John, still leaned his head upon the shoulder of Wallace. That amiable23 being, who, when seeking to wipe the tear of affliction from the cheek of others, minded not the drops of blood which were distilling24 in secret from his own heart, began the recital25 of his first acquaintance with his young Sir Edwin. He enumerated26 every particular; his bringing the detachment from Bothwell, through the enemy-encircled mountains, to Glenfinlass; his scaling the walls of Dumbarton to make the way smooth for the Scots to ascend27; and his after prowess in that well-defended fortress28. As Wallace proceeded, the wonder of Graham was raised to a pitch, only to be equaled by his admiration29; and taking the hand of Edwin, “Receive me, brave youth,” said he, “as your second brother; Sir William Wallace is your first; but, this night, we shall fight side by side for our fathers; and let that be our bond of kindred.”
Edwin pressed the young chief’s cheek with his innocent lips; “Let us, together, free them;” cried he’ “and then we shall be born twins in happiness.”
“So be it,” cried Graham; “and Sir William Wallace be the sponser of that hour!”
Wallace smiled on them; and turning his head toward the shore, when the vessel30 doubled a certain point, he saw the beach covered with armed men. To be sure they were his own, he drew his sword, and waved it in the air. At that moment a hundred falchions flashed in the sunbeams, and the shouts of “Wallace!” came loudly on the breeze.
Graham and Edwin started on their feet; the seamen31 piled their oars32; the boat dashed into the breakers-and Wallace, leaping on shore, was received with acclamations by his eager soldiers.
He no sooner landed, than he commenced his march. Murray joined him on the banks of the Irwin; and as Ayr was no very great distance from that river, at two hours before midnight the little army entered Laglane Wood; where they halted, while Wallace, with his chieftains proceeded to reconnoiter the town. The wind swept in gusts33 through the trees, and seemed by its dismal34 yellings, to utter warnings of the dreadful retributions he was about to inflict36. He had already declared his plan of destruction; and Graham, as a first measure, went to the spot he had fixed37 on with Macdougal, his servant, as a place of rendezvous38. He returned with the man; who informed Wallace, that in honor of the sequestrated lands of the murdered chiefs having been that day partitioned by De Valance amongst certain Southron lords, a grand feast was going on in the governor’s palace. Under the very roof where they had shed the blood of the trusting Scots, they were now keeping this carousal39!
“Now, then, is our time to strike!” cried Wallace; and ordering detachments of his men to take possession of the avenues to the town, he set forth40 with others, to reach the front of the castle gates, by a less frequented path than the main street. The darkness being so great that no object could be distinctly seen, they had not gone far, before Macdougal, who had undertaken to be their guide, discovered by the projection41 of a hill on the right, that he had lost the road.
“Our swords will find one!” exclaimed Kirkpatrick.
Unwilling42 to miss any advantage, in a situation where so much was at stake, Wallace gladly hailed a twinkling light, which gleamed from what he supposed the window of a distant cottage. Kirkpatrick, with Macdougal, offered to go forward, and explore what it might be. In a few minutes they arrived at a thatched building; from which, to their surprise, issued the wailing43 strains of the coronach. Kirkpatrick paused. Its melancholy44 notes were sung by female voices. Hence, there being no danger in applying to such harmless inhabitants, to learn the way to the citadel45, he proceeded to the door; when, intending to knock, the weight of his mailed arm burst open its slender latch46, and discovered two poor women, in an inner apartment, wringing47 their hands over a shrouded49 corpse50. While the chief entered his friends came up. Murray and Graham, struck with sounds never breathed over the vulgar dead, lingered at the porch wondering what noble Scot could be the subject of lamentation51 in so lowly an abode53. The stopping of these two chieftains impeded54 the steps of Wallace, who was pressing forward, without eye or ear for anything but the object of his search. Kirkpatrick at that moment appeared on the threshold, and without a word, putting forth his hand, seized the arm of his commander, and pulled him into the cottage. Before Wallace could ask the reason of this, he saw a woman run forward with a light in her hand; the beams of which falling on the face of the knight55 of Ellerslie, with a shriek56 of joy she rushed toward him, and threw herself upon his neck.
He instantly recognized Elspa, his nurse; the faithful attendant on his grandfather’s declining years! the happy matron who had decked the bridal bed of his Marion! and with an anguish57 of recollections that almost unmanned him, he returned her affectionate embrace.
“Here he lies!” cried the old woman, drawing him toward the rushy bier; and before he had time to demand, “Who?” she pulled down the shroud48 and disclosed the body of Sir Ronald Crawford. Wallace gazed on it, with a look of such dreadful import that Edwin, whose anxious eyes then sought his countenance58, trembled with a nameless horror. “Oh,” thought he, “to what is this noble soul reserved! Is he alone doomed59 to extirpate60 the enemies of Scotland, that every ill falls direct upon his head!”
“Sorry, sorry bier, for the good Lord Ronald!” cried the old woman; “a poor wake to mourn the loss of him who was the benefactor of all the country round! But had I not brought him here, the salt sea must have been his grave.” Here sobs61 prevented her utterance62; but after a short pause, with many vehement63 lamentations over the virtues64 of the dead, and imprecations on his murderers, she related that as soon as the woful tidings were brought to Monktown kirk (and brought too by the Southron, who was to take it in possession!) she and the clan’s-folk who would not swear fidelity65 to the new lord, were driven from the house. She hastened to the bloody66 theater of massacre; and there beheld67 the bodies of the murdered chiefs drawn68 on sledges69 to the seashore. Elspa knew that of her master, by the scar on his breast, which he had received in the battle of Largs. When she saw corpse after corpse thrown, with a careless hand, into the waves, and the man approached who was to cast the honored chief of Monktown, to the same unhallowed burial, she threw herself frantically70 on the body, and so moved the man’s compassion71, that, taking advantage of the time when his comrades were out of sight, he permitted her to wrap the dead Sir Ronald in her plaid, and so carry him away between her sister and herself. But ere she had raised her sacred burden, the man directed her to seek the venerable head from amongst the others, which lay mingled72 in a sack; drawing it forth, she placed it beside the body, and then hastily retired73 with both, to the hovel where Wallace had found her. It was a shepherd’s hut, from which the desolation of the times having long ago driven away its former inhabitant, she had hoped that in so lonely an obscurity, she might have performed without notice, a chieftain’s rites74, to the remains75 of the murdered lord of the very lands on which she wept him. These over, she meant he should be interred76 in secret by the fathers of a neighboring church, which he had once richly endowed. With these intentions, she and her sister were chanting over him the sad dirge77 of their country, when Sir Roger Kirkpatrick burst open the door. “Ah!” cried she, as she closed the dismal narrative78; “though two lonely women were all they had left of the lately thronged79 household of Sir Ronald Crawford, to raise the last lament52 over his revered80 body, yet in that and midnight hour, our earthly voices were not alone; the wakeful spirits of his daughters, hovered81 in the air, and joined the deep coronach!”
Wallace sighed heavily as he looked on the animated82 face of the aged83 mourner. Attachment84 to the venerable dead seemed to have inspired her with thoughts beyond her station; but the heart is an able teacher, and he saw that true affection speaks but one language.
As her ardent85 eyes withdrew from their heavenward gaze, they fell upon the shrouded face of her master. A napkin concealed86 the wound of decapitation. “Chiefs,” cried she, in a burst of recollection, “ye have not seen all the cruelty of these murderers!” At these words she suddenly withdrew the linen87, and lifting up the pale head, held it wofully toward Wallace. “Here,” cried she, “once more kiss these lips! They have often kissed yours, when you were a babe; and as insensible to his love, as he is now to your sorrow.”
Wallace received the head in his arms; the long silver beard, thick with gouts of blood, hung over his hands. He gazed on it, intently, for some minutes. An awful silence pervaded88 the room; every eye was riveted89 upon him.
Looking round on his friends, with a countenance whose deadly hue gave a sepulchral90 fire to the gloomy denunciation of his eyes; “Was it necessary,” said he, “to turn my heart to iron, that I was brought to see this sight?” All the tremendous purpose of his soul was read in his face, while he laid the head back upon the bier. His lips again moved, but none heard what he said. He rushed from the hut, and with rapid strides, proceeded in profound silence toward the palace.
He well knew that no honest Scot could be under that roof. The building, though magnificent, was altogether a structure of wood; to fire it, then, was his determination. TO destroy all, at once, in the theater of their cruelty; to make an execution, not engage in a warfare91 of man to man, was his resolution; for they were not soldiers hew92 as seeking, but assassins; and to pitch his brave Scots in the open field against such unmanly wretches93 would be to dishonor his men, to give criminals a chance for the lives they had forfeited94.
All being quiet in the streets through which he passed, and having set strong bodies of men at the mouth of every sallyport of the citadel, he made a bold attack upon the guard at the barbican-gate; and, ere they could give the alarm, all being slain95, he and his chosen troop entered the portal, and made direct to the palace. The lights which blazed through the windows of the banqueting hall showed him to the spot; and, having detached Graham and Edwin to storm the keep, where their fathers were confined, he took the half-intoxicated sentinels at the palace-gates by surprise, and striking them into a sleep from which they would wake no more, he fastened the doors upon the assassins. His men surrounded the building with hurdles96 filled with combustibles, which they had prepared according to his directions; and, when all was ready, Wallace, with the mighty97 spirit of retribution nerving every limb, mounted to the roof, and tearing off the shingles98, with a flaming brand in his hand, showed himself to the affrighted revelers beneath; and, as he threw it blazing among them, he cried aloud, “The blood of the murdered calls for vengeance99, and it comes.”
At that instant the matches were put to the fagots which surrounded the building; and the party within, springing from their seats, hastened toward the doors. All were fastened on them; and retreating into the midst of the room, they fearfully looked toward the tremendous figure above, which, like a supernatural being, seemed indeed come to rain fire upon their guilty heads. Some shook with superstitious100 dread35; others, driven to atheistical101 despair, with horrible execrations, again strove to force a passage through the doors. A second glance told De Valence whose was the hand which had launched the thunderbolt at his feet; and, turning to Sir Richard Arnuf, he cried, in a voice of horror, “My arch-enemy is there!”
Thick smoke rising from within and without the building now obscured his terrific form. The shouts of the Scots as the fire covered its walls, and the streaming flames licking the windows, and pouring into every opening of the building, raised such a terror in the breasts of the wretches within, that, with the most horrible cries, they again and again flew to the doors to escape. Not an avenue appeared; almost suffocated102 with smoke, and scorched103 by the blazing rafters which fell from the burning roof, they at last made a desperate attempt to break a passage through the great portal. Arnuf was at their head, and sunk to abjectness104 by his despair, in a voice which terror rendered piercing, he called aloud for mercy. The words reached the ear of Sir Roger Kirkpatrick, who stood neared to the door. In a voice of thunder he replied, “That ye gave, ye shall receive. Where was mercy when our fathers and our brothers fell beneath your murderous axes!”
Aymer de Valence came up at this moment with a wooden pillar, which he and his strongest men in the company had torn from under the gallery that surrounded the room, and with all their strength dashing it against the great door, they at last drove it from its bolts. But now a wall of men opposed them. Desperate at the sight, and with a burning furnace in their rear, it was not the might of man that could prevent their escape, and with the determination of despair, rushing forward, the foremost rank of Scots fell. But ere the exulting105 Southrons could press out into the open space, Wallace himself had closed upon them, and Arnuf, the merciless Arnuf, whose voice had pronounced the sentence of death upon Sir Ronald Crawford, died beneath his hand.
Wallace was not aware that he had killed the Governor of Ayr till the terror-struck exclamations106 of his enemies informed him that the ruthless instigator107 of the massacre was slain. This event was welcome news to the Scots; and hoping that the next death would be that of De Valence, they pressed on with redoubled energy.
Aroused by so extraordinary a noise, and alarmed by the flames of the palace, the soldiers quartered near hastened half armed to the spot. But their presence rather added to the confusion than gave assistance to the besieged108. They were without leaders, and not daring to put themselves to action, for fear of being afterward109 punished (in the case of a mischance) for having presumed to move without their officers, they stood dismayed and irresolute110, while those very officers, who had been all at the banquet, were falling in heaps under the swords of the exterminating111 Scots.
Meanwhile, the men who guarded the prisoners in the keep, having their commanders with them, made a stout112 resistance there; and one of the officers, seeing a possible advantage, stole out, and, gathering113 a company of the scattered114 garrison115, suddenly taking Graham in flank, made no inconsiderable havoc116 amongst that part of his division. Edwin blew the signal for assistance. Wallace heard the blast; and seeing the day was won at the palace, he left the finishing of the affair to Kirkpatrick and Murray; and, drawing off a small party to reinforce Graham, he took the Southron officer by surprise. The enemy’s ranks fell around him like corn beneath the sickle117; and, grasping a huge battering118 ram119 which his men had found, he burst open the door of the keep. Graham and Edwin rushed in; and Wallace, sounding his own bugle120 with the notes of victory, his reserves (whom he had placed at the ends of the streets) entered in every direction, and received the flying soldiers of De Valence upon their pikes.
Dreadful was now the carnage; for the Southrons, forgetting all discipline, fought every man for his life; which the furious Scots driving them into the far-spreading flames, what escaped the sword would have perished in the fire, had not the relenting heart of Wallace pleaded for bleeding humanity, and he ordered the trumpet121 to sound a parley122. He was obeyed; and, standing123 on an adjacent mound124, in an awful voice he proclaimed that “whoever had not been accomplices125 in the horrible massacre of the Scottish chiefs, if they would ground their arms, and take an oath never to serve again against Scotland, their lives should be spared.”
Hundreds of swords fell to the ground; and their late holders126, kneeling at his feet, took the oath perscribed. At the head of those who surrendered appeared the captain who had commanded at the prison. He was the only officer of all the late garrison who survived, all else had fallen in the conflict or perished in the flames; and when he saw that not one of his late numerous companions existed to go through the same humiliating ceremony, with an aghast countenance he said to Wallace, as he presented his sword, “Then I must believe that, with this weapon, I am surrendering to Sir William Wallace the possession of this castle and the government of Ayr. I see not one of my late commanders-all must be slain; and for me to hold out longer would be to sacrifice my men, not to redeem127 that which has been so completely wrested128 from us. But I serve severe exactors, and I hope that your testimony129, my conqueror130, will assure my king that I fought as became his standard.”
Wallace gave him a gracious answer; and committing him to the generous care of Murray, he turned to give orders to Ker respecting the surrendered and the slain. During these momentous131 events, Graham had deemed it prudent132 that, exhausted133 by anxiety and privations, the noble captives should not come forth to join in the battle; and not until the sound of victory echoed through the arches of their dungeons, would he suffer the eager Dundaff to see and thank his deliverer. Meanwhile, the young Edwin appeared before the eyes of his father, like the angel who opened the prison gates to Peter. After embracing him with all a son’s fondness, in which for the moment he lost the repressing idea, that he might have offended by his truancy134; after recounting, in a few hasty sentences, the events which had brought him to be a companion of Sir William Wallace; and to avenge135 the injuries of Scotland in Ayr, he knocked off the chains of his amazed father. Eager to perform the like service to all who had suffered in like manner, and accompanied by the happy Lord Ruthven (who gazed with delight on his son, treading so early the path of glory), he hastened around to the other dungeons; and gladly proclaimed to the astonished inmates136, freedom and safety. Having rid them of their shackles137, he had just entered with his noble company into the vaulted138 chamber139, which contained the released Lord Dundaff, when the peaceful clarion140 sounded. At the joyful141 tidings, Graham started on his feet: “Now, my father, you shall see the bravest of men!”
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