Show ROMANCE IN SCOTCH HISTORY curse pronounced by mother of great soldier seemed to have ade ada quate fulfillment the widow aldow of the great Nis miscount discount count dundee married shortly after his death william livingston of 0 who had ad long been in lose loie with alth hei bet dun dees mother who aho considered living ston virtually her son a murderer pro trounced a curse on her daughter in law and her husband pray ing that go gol I 1 would au id show the unworthy couple some swift ift token of his anger the wedding day of livingston and lad I 1 ad dundee as aa fraught with bad omens the bridegroom gave the bride a ring I 1 inscribed bours ours till death but the I 1 ring was lost before the day was over and the vengeful old lady dundee sent as her wedding gift a nightcap a pair of white gloves and a rope all these articles typical of a condemned murderer in october 1695 it seemed Ls though the unhappy fate so desired by lady dundee fell on her daugh daughty daught tr tr in law who she died at utrecht through a terrible accident she her infant son and her maid were crushed to death through the root falling ailing in her bus hand band being rescued with great biffi culty the bodies of I 1 ad syth and her baby were embalmed embalm ed and brought to scotland and in the ear 1800 it was the common practice of the in habitants of kilsch to go to the vau vault it and see the bodies which were as per feet as the hour they were ere first placed in the coffin |