When a man's soul is certainly in hell, his body will scarce lie quiet in a tomb however costly; some time or other the door must open, and the reprobate come forth in the abhorred garments of the grave.

It was thought a high piece of prowess to knock at the Lord Advocate's mausoleum and challenge him to appear.

'Bluidy Mackingie, come oot if ye dar'!' sang the fool-hardy urchins.

But Sir George had other affairs on hand; and the author of an essay on toleration continues to sleep peacefully among the many whom he so intolerantly helped to slay.
[Picture: The Grassmarket] For this _infelix campus_, as it is dubbed in one of its own inscriptions--an inscription over which Dr.Johnson passed a critical eye--is in many ways sacred to the memory of the men whom Mackenzie persecuted.

It was here, on the flat tombstones, that the Covenant was signed by an enthusiastic people.