Today's installment concludes The Career of Mary Queen of Scots,our selection from Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 10 by Algernon Charles

Alone, "without one counsellor on her side among so many," Mary conducted the whole of her own defence with courage incomparable and unsurpassable

She repeatedly showed herself at the window, appealing aloud with dishevelled hair and dress to the mercy which no man could look upon her and

Lest her captivity should have been held to invalidate the late legal proceedings in her name, proclamation was made of forgiveness accorded by the

Upon the view which may be taken of Mary's conduct during the next three months depends the whole debatable question of her character.Continuing The

But the conduct of the besotted boy, on whom at their marriage she had bestowed the title of king, began at once to justify the enterprise and to play