that he would do good service to the Christian cause, by assisting him to drive back the Saracens of Granada before proceeding on his voyage to Jerusalem.  Lord Douglas and his followers went accordingly to a great battle against Osmyn, and had little difficulty in defeating the Saracens.  But being ignorant of the mode of fighting among the cavalry of the East, the Scots pursued the chase too far, and the Moors, when they saw them scattered and separated from each other, turned suddenly back, with a loud cry of Allah ILLAH Allah, which is their shout of battle, and surrounded such of the Scottish knights and squires as were dispersed from each other.

In this new skirmish, Douglas saw Sir William St. Clair of Roslyn fighting desperately, surrounded by many Moors, who were having at him with their sabres.  “Yonder worthy knight will be slain,” Douglas said, “unless he have instant help.”  With that he galloped to his rescue, but presently was himself also surrounded by many Moors.  When he found the enemy press so thick round him, as to leave him no chance of escaping, the Earl took from his neck the Bruce’s heart, and speaking to it, as he would have done to the King, had he been alive—­“Pass first in fight,” he said, “as thou wert wont to do, and Douglas will follow thee, or die.”

He then threw the King’s heart among the enemy, and rushing forward to the place where it fell, was there slain.  His body was found lying above the silver case, as if it had been his last object to defend the Bruce’s heart.

Such of the Scottish knights as remained alive returned to their own country.  They brought back the heart of the Bruce, and the bones of the good Lord James.  The Bruce’s heart was buried below the high altar in Melrose Abbey.  As for his body, it was laid in the sepulchre in the midst of the church of Dunfermline, under a marble stone.  The church afterward becoming ruinous, and the roof falling down with age, the monument was broken to pieces, and nobody could tell where it stood.  But when they were repairing the church at Dunfermline, and removing the rubbish, lo! they found fragments of the marble tomb of Robert Bruce.  Then they began to dig farther, thinking to discover the body of this celebrated monarch; and at length they came to the skeleton of a tall man, and they knew it must be that of King Robert, both as he was known to have been buried in a winding sheet of cloth of gold, of which many fragments were found about this skeleton, and also because the breastbone appeared to have been sawed through, in order to take the heart.  A new tomb was prepared into which the bones were laid with profound respect.

CHAPTER XVII

GEORGE WASHINGTON

On the 4th of March, 1797, Washington went to the inauguration of his successor as President of the United States.  The Federal Government was sitting in Philadelphia at that time and Congress held sessions in the courthouse on the corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets.