The evil eye has crossed him perhaps. | nothing but Tonino's lantern. Her heart Who knows?" A But Pippa waited to hear no more. horrible dread had seized upon her; a terror cold as a hand of ice lay upon her heart. She uttered a shrill little cry and sped away towards the mountain as fast as her feet could carry her. "Per Bacco! there will be mischief," said one man to another. "Would it not be best to go after them?" "I shall tell the priore," said Mariuccia, wagging her old head, and she went off in search of the priest. In a few minutes quite a crowd had gathered round the mouth of the tunnel. Meanwhile Pippa ran on and reached her destination. The opening looked fearfully dark and gloomy in the fading light, and she had no lantern with her; but terror lent her courage, she never hesitated, but quickly crossing herself she darted in. It was quite dark now. Pippa guided herself along the wall; she was obliged to go more slowly, for several times she caught her foot against one of the sleepers and nearly fell. Oh, how pitch-dark it was, and how cold! She gasped for breath. Now her hands rapidly passing along the wall encountered something cold and slimy, and she tried to fling it off, but it clung. "A slug," she thought with a shudder as she got rid of it at last, never slackening her steps. All was deadly still-she could only hear her own panting breath. Now a sort of pale color began through the blackness, and a warmer breath of air; she could see again. The big tunnel opened into a little gorge not ten feet wide. She looked up through the rocks almost like one from the bottom of a well, and saw the friendly blue sky, then taking | courage, plunged on again into deeper night than before. . Pippa could feel the darkness, the cold, breathless atmosphere; she was getting into the longest, most unbroken part of the tunnel. She gasped for breath, her brain began to reel, her eyes throbbed and ached with the strain to see where nothing was visible. Then suddenly, quite suddenly it seemed to her, in the far distance she perceived a little moving spark; a light that could be beat almost to suffocation, she paused for one instant to gain breath, then bounded on, for it seemed to her intensely strained sense of hearing that there was some one else ahead of her, some footsteps swiftly following the lantern, in pursuit of it. Pippa pressed on faster and faster, and the distance between them seemed to be diminishing. Would she arrive in time? She had grown accustomed to the sleepers now, and knew mechanically when to expect them as she ran. She was getting nearer and nearer. Suddenly she saw the lantern stop, there was a sound that made Pippa pause to listen with the terror of a hunted animal. A rush of footsteps, a kind of shout, a sound of a death-struggle. Pippa bounded forward with a cry, the guiding light disappeared, she heard the crash as the lantern fell, and all was total darkness. Suddenly rang out a sound which filled the whole tunnel- a wild, unearthly whistle, a distant roar approaching nearer and nearer. Pippa shrank back, crouched, pressed against the wall. The train was coming. She heard a shout from the fighters, "Back, back! let go! the train comes! Maria Santissima! "Never, never! Go then to thy doom!" The roar increased louder and louder; with a terrific noise the train rushed past; a cold air filled the place, a sudden, dense sensation of suffocation. What sound was that? A kind of sickening crash, as if something had been crushed out of all human recognition under those awful wheels. Then came a dead, awful silence. No one spoke, no one seemed to breathe. Then Pippa turned, and crept back the way she had come, conscious of nothing but a frantic desire to get back to the air, to God's light again. Round the mouth of the tunnel the crowd of villagers had assembled, but no one went in. They stood waiting uneasily, wondering what was happening. They had seen the train go by, and kept on saying to each other that it must be all right. Presently out of the darkness crept forth a figure they hardly recognized as the beautiful Pippa. Her hands stretched out blindly before her, her eyes wide open and un-seeing, her lips livid. "But what is it, Pippa! Santi Apostoli! what has happened?" But she answered nothing, only pointed to the tunnel with ghastly looks. Another! The crowd separated in a kind of terror, for out of the darkness staggered forth another panic-stricken human creature-Gianni, who with trem. bling hands was struggling at his shirtcollar trying to tear it open, to breathe, to get air. "Heaven help us! but what has hap pened?" cried the people. Then they made way for the priore, who was has tening forward followed by old Mariuccia. Gianni reeled forward as if he were drunken. "An accident, father," he gasped - a horrible accident, the wheels! the - the "Give him water," said the priest quickly, "and fetch lanterns. Quick, quick, lose no time, the unhappy man may yet be living." But all was not over yet. Once more out of the mouth of the tunnel appeared another. "Haste! haste!" he shouted. "Bring lights! come at once! Gianni has been run over by the train! Haste!" But Pippa caught sight of him, and uttered a cry which rang through the air: "Tonino! it is thou! Gianni! Gianni!' Then she burst into laughter so wild and unnatural that the women all rushed round her. She could not cease-peal after peal shook her from head to foot. They had to throw water over her several times, and for a long time in vain. The villagers gathered round the two "I thought I had killed thee," fal. men. tered Gianni. "I also thought thou wast dead," said Tonino, shuddering violently. "Oh! it was horrible, horrible!" "God has been very merciful to you both," said the priore gravely. The two men took off their hats and muttered an Amen. They could neither of them cease shuddering. "But what was that horrible noise, as of something crushed?" asked Gianni at last, every trace of color again leaving his cheek. It was my bag of tools," said Tonino with a pale smile. “Truly, friend, thou owest me a new set." A fortnight later the whole village went by train through the big tunnel to Monte Caetano, to see the departure of Gianni and his bride. They sat in the coupé of the big carriage, and Pippa's dark curly hair and bright eyes looked brilliant on the background of golden yellow calico. The four horses were decorated with ribbons of every color, and the bride wore a beauti ful vezzo of pearls which had come down to her through many generations. "Buon viaggio! buon viaggio!" shouted the crowd, and they drove away along the road through merry dancing clouds of dust, the little bells on the harness jangling harmoniously. Old Giacomo stood watching till they were out of sight, then as he turned away he muttered: "All the same, all women are false." "No! no!" cried the peasant girls, laughing and showing their white teeth. Giacomo turned round with a kind of snarl. 66 Bah!" he cried. "And all men are fools." "That's as may be," said the lads, and they also laughed. From The Scottish Review. THE SCOTS BRIGADE.* THE Scot abroad is a subject which Dr. John Hill Burton has made peculiarly his own, and pursued with a skill whịch precludes imitation, yet the title of his instructive and interesting volume points the way to fields of investigation where much remains to be gathered. The connection with France which then afforded to Scotsmen, as India in later days, the main outlet of foreign enterprise, has received attention proportionate to its im portance, but there were other spheres of varied activity which excite the curiosity of the reflective student of our history. The career of Bothwell suggests closer enquiry as to the relations of the Scottish kingdom with her Norwegian neighbors, and that fruitful Polish commerce which employed so many northern Scots, and procured for the future vanquisher of the Strelitzes such welcome Aberdonian hospitality in Posen, would repay more careful study than it has yet received. The alacrity with which Gordon and his friends were prepared to wreak summary vengeance on Cromwell's ambassador to Muscovy, whom they took for Bradshaw the regicide, consists with the fact that during his exile in France the resources of "Charles II., King of Scots," were increased by a contribution of £10,000 from 1. Orderly Book of Lord Drumlanrig's Regiment, 1748-9. 2. Commissions in Scots Brigade, 1677-88. 3. History of the Scottish Regiments. By MAJOR A. MURRAY. 1863. 4. The Scots Brigade. A Novel, by JAMES GRANT. 1882. the Scottish merchants in Poland. So late as the close of the next century the grandson in Warsaw of an immigrant Scot was reputed the richest banker in Europe, and perhaps an enthusiastic patriot north of the Tweed may see one source of the ills that overtook the Sarmatian realm, in the fact that the Union gradually deprived it of the Scottish leaven. The argument would cut far-if at all for it is applicable to the French Revolution. Scots Brigade had in "the classic land of fortified defence" stood in the forefront of a mighty struggle. Like their countrymen in the south, the Scots allies of the Dutch had their services acknowledged by the highest authority on a striking oc casion, and in emphatic terms. As after the battle of Pavia, Francis I. had described the Scottish gens d'armes as the arm which bears my sceptre," so at the siege of Bois-le-duc in 1629, Frederick Henry Prince of Orange bestowed on their countrymen the proud epithet of "the Bulwark of the Republic." We have before us an orderly book of one of the regiments of the brigade, illus. trating its discipline and the personnel of its officers at a comparatively late period in its history, and a few commissions of earlier date which may form the most critical in itself, and most interesting to British investigators of its annals. For, along with three English regiments occu pying a similar position, it was the cream of the army that landed with William of Orange at Torbay, and formed the nucleus of the force which, though defeated at Killiecrankie, reduced Scotland. Before that time, however, it had a career of more than a century. It was as soldiers however that the Scots were most conspicuous abroad, and three great military organizations attested the value of the forces for which their own country could not find room. The Green Brigade of Gustavus, the famous Scots Guards of France, and the Scots Brigade of the States-General of the United Netherlands, proved their valor in many a wellfought field, and in some saved the coun-text of a notice of its services at a time tries that they served. It is strange that the last occupies so small a space in Dr. Burton's book. Second only in antiquity as an organized force to "Pontius Pilate's Guards," it resembled the troops of Gustavus in its character, and the cause in which its blows were dealt. It produced however no Munro to narrate his experiences, and the author of the Military Antiquities and the historian of the Scottish Church at Rotterdam combined The circumstances of Scotland, and the are perhaps the nearest approach to a spirit of her people, had sent her sons to Father Forbes-Leith which time has yet serve all over Europe, to use the words vouchsafed it. But an exhaustive study of Sir Thomas Urquhart, from "the very of the records preserved at the Hague Scyths and Sarmats even to the most should afford material as interesting as subartick incolaries" on the one hand, and has recently been given to the world from on the other even in "the service of that French archives. A minute and affec- great Don Philippe Tetrarch of the world, tionate account of "the Old Brigade" is upon whose subjects the sun never sets,' the natural complement to the story of the but the Reformation and the consequent gallant champions of the Fleurs-de-Lys. revolt of the United Provinces almost Both represented periods of marked char- immediately produced the establishment acteristics and the influences of great of a permanent body of troops in Holland. principles at work in the making of his-"About the year 1570," says Grose, "the tory, for if the old monarchy of France owed much to its stranger Guards, the bond which ennobled the service of the brigade, and stimulated its recruiting in the glens of Scotland, and its exertions in the Lawlands of Holland" by an inducement loftier than certain and liberal pay, was the conviction that those who joined it were not merely carving out their own careers but "giving a harvest-day's work" for the high cause of the Protestant religion. From the time of William the Silent, till the triumph of Blenheim had made it fully certain that no most Catholic or most Christian king would combine supremacy in Europe with enforcement of conformity to Rome, the fame of the Low Country wars, and the great name of the Prince of Orange, caused in many Scottish gentlemen of martial spirits a desire to study the art of war under him: they therefore went over to Holland carrying with them a number of their countrymen, who were formed into independent companies: among these gentlemen were many of the first families in Scotland, such as Balfour, Lord Burley, Scott Earl of Buccleuch, Preston of Gorton, Halkett of Pitfirran, many of the different families of the name of Stewart, Hay, Sinclair, Douglas, Hamilton, Graham, etc." These Scots troops suffered in the rout of Gemblours in 1578, where Don John of Austria defeated the forces at the Bosch in Brabant, of the States, but at the action of Rémi- | seven years later, as "in fine order, and naut or Rijnemants in the same year one of the best companys in the service." they decided the day under the leadership Their commander had returned in 1609. of Sir Robert Stuart, "fighting without on the conclusion of the Twelve Years' armor, and in their shirts." Nudi pug- Truce. In 1627 his son, the first Earl of nant Scoti multi, are the words of Strada. Buccleuch, took over a gallant company, In 1585 in the determined but fruitless and distinguished himself at Bois-le-duc. effort to relieve Antwerp, beleaguered by According to "a poetic chronicler of the the Prince of Parma, the terrible "Holo- clan,". fernese," the Scots had their own share of the bloody struggle on the Kowenstyn Dyke. "The English and Scots under Balfour and Morgan were the last to abandon the position which they had held so manfully seven hours long." In 1592 gen-op-Zoom, and commanded one of the Scotch companies formed part of the conthree regiments into which the Scots tingent under Count Philip Nassau sent troops had by this time been definitely by the States to the aid of Henry IV. of formed. The other colonels were another France, and five years later "eight comScott, and Halkett, while among the wellpanies of Scotch under Murray" partici-known names associated with the brigade pated in Prince Maurice's important vic-occurs that of Haig of Bemersyde. To the peace of Munster the Scots continued tory at Turnhout. Led by an to distinguish themselves. Erskine at Sas-van-Ghent, they were foremost in forcing the passage of the Lys, and commanded by a Kilpatrick fought bravely at the siege of Ghent. quaint work with the long name - the ἐκσκυ-βαλαυρον — which Sir Thomas Ur In his quhart wrote to vindicate the character of his native land, and in which he contrasts the famous "Scottish colonels" "exceed ingly renowned for their fidelity, valor, and gallantry over all France, Spain, the Venetian territories, Pole, Muscovy, Denmark, Germany, and other states and kingdoms," with the "freshwater officers," "these Laird and Lord Kirk-officers," so plentiful in the Scotch civil war, he sounds the praises of his countrymen in Holland Two years before their numbers had been largely augmented, for the Dutch embassy that congratulated King James on the birth of his son, presenting him with two massive golden cups, carried back with them fifteen hundred recruits. In so doing they had to overcome a certain reluctance on the part of the king to countenance rebellious subjects, while there had been an unsuccessful attempt previously by George Lord Seton to bring over the Scots Brigade to the cause of Queen Mary. It suffered much at the siege of Bom-the Low Countryes, Swedland, Hungary, mel in 1599, and in the following year the advance guard of Prince Maurice at the famous battle of the Downs near Neiuport was largely composed of Edmond's Scots Regiment. The loss, especially in officers, was very heavy, including all the captains and eight hundred men, but according to some accounts the rank and file were infected by the panic which seized the Zealand regiment and four squadrons of horse, who had been detached along with the Scots, to hold the bridge at Leffingen, against the whole might of the cardinal archduke's army. But another narrative asserts that it was only "after having bravely defended the bridge like good soldiers, they were at length forced to give way, the whole loss having fallen on the Scots." During the next four years they maintained their ancient fame among the "olla podrida of nationalities," that defended Ostend against Spinola. In 1604 Sir Walter Scott of Buccleugh took over to the Netherlands two hundred men, described by his agent at the Hague in characteristic manner: The gold and treasure of the Indies not being able to purchase all the affections of Scotland to the furtherance of Castilian designs, there have been of late several Scottish colonels under the command of the Prince of Orange in opposition to the Spagniard: viz., de Buccoy twice prisoner in the field: Sir Henry Balfour, Sir David Balfour, Colonel Brog who took a Spanish general in the field upon the head of his army: Sir Francis Henderson, Colonel Scot, Earl of Bucliugh, Sir James Livistoun, now Earl of Callandar, and lately in these our turmoyles at home lieutenant-general of both horse and foot; a great many other worthy colonels, amongst Colonel Dowglas, who to the states of Holwhich I will only commemorate one, named land was oftentimes serviceable in discharging the office and duty of general engineer: whereof they are now so sensible that to have him alive again and of that vigour and freshness in Colonel Edmond who took the valiant Count besides body and spirit, wherewith he was endowed on the day he was killed on, they would give thrice his weight in gold, and well they might, for some few weeks before the fight wherein he was slain he presented to them twelve arti cles and heads of such wonderful feats for the In the opinion of the Knight of Cromarty, not them." Their behavior in some actions was not worthy of their ancient fame, and William of Orange asked Mackay, who had lately joined him, if he was ashamed of their conduct, and could conceive the reason why his countrymen had so degenerated from what they were when commanded by Lord Reay under Gustavus Adolphus. Mackay, 66 as much piqued as the prince," gave him a very plain answer, saying that this corps, though called the Scots Brigade, was really a mixture of deserters and outcasts from all nations; that the promotion of foreigners had disgusted and driven away After the Restoration in Britain, and the the Scots cadets and officers, and made alliance of the royal House of Stuart the men desert; "but," he added, "if with William of Orange, the Scots Brig. his Highness would dispose of the forade entered on a new and perhaps the eign officers in the national or new-levied most important phase of its career. When regiments, and replace them with Scotch Charles II. was compelled by Parliament gentlemen of family and raise Scotch reto reduce his army, many of his officers cruits, he would answer that the corps and men turned their eyes to the Scots would be as good as ever." His counsel Brigade, and the supply coincided with a was followed; he got the brigade put on felt demand. Two officers whose destiny a good footing, and carefully organized its it was to meet again in very different cir- scale of pay at a rate which, though then cumstances, were then in its ranks. John liberal, subsequently became inadequate. Graham of Claverhouse, like many other That of a colonel did not exceed £350, of famous captains, was serving his noviciate a captain £140, and of a lieutenant £40, in arms in Holland; and the combined a year. The position of the brigade was charms of Clara de Bie and Calvinistic a peculiar one. It was paid by Holland, theology had transferred Hugh Mackay the commissions were granted by the of Scourie from following "Dumbarton's States and signed by the stadtholder, but drums," to march more solemnly to the it was nominally lent by the king of Great refrain of "the Lawlands of Holland." It Britain, who retained the right to recall was while serving in the brigade that the it, and on two occasions that right was atfuture Dundee saved the life of William tempted to be exercised. Known in Holof Orange at Seneff, and it was the failure land as the Scots Brigade, it was spoken to give him the promised command of one of in Scotland as the three Dutch regiof its regiments that made him haughtily ments, and reckoned a part of the fighting declare he would no longer serve a prince strength of the kingdom. The series of who had broken his word. He was to commissions of this time, which have meet in the pass of Killiecrankie the supplied one of our texts, very well illus officer in whose favor he had been super-trate the facts already mentioned, and the seded. His Dutch connection, and per- service on which it was about to enter. haps some forecast of the future, recom- They were granted to an officer belonging mended Mackay to William, and that to an Aberdeenshire family, who was officer is the best type of the characteris- transferred after Steinkirk to the lieutentic Scotch-Dutch soldier. As time ad ant-colonelcy of the Cameronian Regivanced he was promoted to the commandment, and subsequently commanded a of the brigade, and, up to the time when he marched to a post which he knew to be untenable on the field of Steinkirk with the words "The will of the Lord be done!" he and his brigade were the support which William knew would never fail him. For some time previous to 1675, the brigade had been in a demoralized condition. 66 Having nobody to protect them, they had a number of Dutchmen, Germans, and French refugees made officers among them, which entirely dispirited 2404 LIVING AGE. VOL. XLVII brigade at Blenheim. We quote one which bears the date of a day on which Luttrell noted in his diary: "The three Scots regiments that are in the service of the Dutch are sent for over, in order to be sent into Scotland against the rebells :" 66 Syne Hoogheyt heest by changement gestelt ende gecommitteert, stelt ende committeert mits desentot Lieutenant van de Compagnie van den Capitain James Middleton, James Ferguson. Lastende d'officieren en gemeene soldaten van de |