Show I ROMANCE IN SCOTCH HISTORY I Curse Pronounced by Mother of Great Soldier Seemed to Have Adequate Ade-quate Fulfillment Tho widow of tho great Viscount Dundee married shortly after his death William Livingston of Kllsyth who had long been In lava with her Dun dees mother who considered Livingston Living-ston vIrtually her sons murderer pronounced pro-nounced a curse on her daughterin law and her husband praying that God would show tho unworthy couple some swift token of his anger The wedding day of Livingston and Lady Dundee was fraught with bad omens The bridegroom gave the bride a ring Inscribed Yours Till Death but the 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 1G95 It seemed us though the unhappy fate so desired by Lady Dundee fell on her daughter inlaw who died at Utrecht through a terrible accident She her Infant son nnd her maid were crushed to death through the roof falling In her husband hus-band being rescued with great difficulty I diffi-culty The bodies of Lady Kllsyth and her baby were embalmed and brought to Scotland and In the year 1800 It was the common practice of the inhabitants In-habitants of Kllsyth to go to the vault and see the bodies which were as perfect per-fect as the hour they were first placed In tho coffin |