The birth of an infant boy cost her her life.
Redgauntlet sat by her corpse for more than twenty-four hours without changing either feature or posture, so far as his terrified domestics could observe.

The Abbot of Dundrennan preached consolation to him in vain.

Douglas, who came to visit in his affliction a patriot of such distinguished zeal, was more successful in rousing his attention.

He caused the trumpets to sound an English point of war in the courtyard, and Redgauntlet at once sprang to his arms, and seemed restored to the recollection which had been lost in the extent of his misery.
'From that moment, whatever he might feel inwardly, he gave way to no outward emotion.

Douglas caused his infant to be brought; but even the iron-hearted soldiers were struck with horror to observe that, by the mysterious law of nature, the cause of his mother's death, and the evidence of his father's guilt, was stamped on the innocent face of the babe, whose brow was distinctly marked by the miniature resemblance of a horseshoe.