eed be, prescribing homely remedies when called upon to do so.
None ever penetrated his disguise, and he was able to cross from London
to France and journey, on foot from France to Holland with complete
success.

Years afterwards, when Sir Patrick was Earl of Marchmont, Chancellor of
Scotland, and President of the Privy Council, it was his lot to have to
try for his life a certain Captain Burd. And during the trial there came
back to him like a flash the old days when, in company with another
wayfarer, he tramped the long French roads, unwinding themselves like
white ribbons before him, between the avenues of stiff, tall, silvery
poplars on to the flat, windmill-dotted Dutch country, with the
brown-sailed boats that seemed to sail along the fields. And here, in
Captain Burd, he recognised the companion of those often weary, often
hungry days, when pockets were empty, fortunes at dead-low tide, and
Scotland and wife and children very far away. In public the Chancellor
treated his old friend with severity, but arranged with his son, Sir
Andrew Home, then a young lawyer, to see Captain Burd alone. Timidly and
nervously, with downcast eyes, the poor man repeated the tale to which
the Chancellor had already listened. In silence he heard it again, and
then: "Do you not know me?" he asked, smiling.

"God's wounds! Dr. Wallace!" cried Captain Burd, and fell with tears of
joy on the neck of the Chancellor, who was readily and gladly able to
prove the innocence of his old companion.

No sooner had Sir Patrick Home left Scotland than his estates were
forfeited and given to Lord Seaforth, and although Lady Home went by sea
to London, and there for a long time did all possible to obtain from
Government an adequate allowance for the support of her family of ten,
L150 a year was all that she was able to secure. Of course Grisell was
her companion there, and her companion also when she sailed to Holland
to join Sir Patrick. Of the ten, a little girl, Julian by name, had to
be left behind with friends as she was too ill to travel, and when
Grisell had safely handed over her mother and brothers and sisters to
her father's care, she returned to Scotland alone, to act as escort to
the little sister, "to negotiate business, and to try if she could pick
up any money of some that was owing to her father." The brave and
capable little woman of business, having managed affairs to her
satisfaction, secured, for the passage, a nurse for the sis