erning him, _facts drawn from Lennox_, 13 _et seq._;
starts for the hunt in Falkland Park, 13; the Master of Ruthven
interviews him before the hunt, 13; goes to Gowrie's house, 14;
_observers' accounts of the transactions implicating him_, 20-34; his
dinner at Gowrie House, 20; goes upstairs on a quiet errand, 20;
Cranstoun's statement that the King had ridden away, 20; search for him
in the house, 21; Gowrie confirms his departure, 22; but--the King's
horse still in the stable, 22; heard calling from the window, 23;
struggle with the Master of Ruthven, 24, 25, 26; the man in the turret
behind the King's back, 25; sanctions the stabbing of the Master of
Ruthven by Ramsay, 26; shut up in the turret, 29, 30; kneels in prayer in
the chamber bloody with the corpse of Gowrie, 32; _his own narrative of
the affair_, 35 _et seq._; theory of the object of the Ruthvens, 37; the
Master of Ruthven's statement to him of the cloaked man and the pot full
of coined gold pieces, 39; suspects the Jesuits of importing foreign gold
for seditious purposes, 40; his horror of 'practising Papists,' 40;
hypothesis of his intended kidnapping, 37, 42; importance of the ride of
the Master and Henderson to Falkland and its concealment to the
substantiation of his narrative, 44, 45, 46; asserts Henderson's presence
at Falkland, 46; rides, followed by Mar and Lennox, after the kill to
Perth, 47; surmises regarding Ruthven, 47; motives for the Master
acquiring his favour regarding the Abbey of Scone, 48; asks Lennox if he
thinks the Master settled in his wits, 48; pressed by the Master to come
on and see the man and the treasure, 48; met by Gowrie with sixty men,
49; presses the Master for a sight of the treasure, 49; the Master asks
him to keep the treasure a secret from Gowrie, 49; Gowrie's uneasy
behaviour while the King dines, 49, 50; despatches Gowrie to the Hall
with the grace-cup, and follows the Master alone to the turret to view
the treasure, 50, 51; the question of the doors he passed through to
reach the turret chamber and their locking by the Master, 51, 52, 53, 54;
threatened by the Master with the dagger of a strange man in the turret
chamber, 55; denounced for the execution of the Master's father, 56; his
harangue to the Master excusing his action, and promising forgiveness if
released, 56; Ruthven goes to consult Gowrie, leaving him in the custody
of the man, 56; questions the man about the conspiracy, 57; orders the
man to open the wind