In 1789 a young woman was just starting out in life having moved to Edinburgh to find work. Starting in one of the mills, she was to find work hard but fun she would make new friends very easily, she was a very well liked young girl. During her breaks with friends she would often talk of her life before coming to Edinburgh she even said she was hoping one day a young man would come and take her away to far off places. Most of the other young girls would say that is what they to hoped for.
She did not know at the time but she had caught the eye of the foreman James Hill, although he was almost 30 years older than her, he set his sights on bedding her and more. Lynn was the perfect girl for him, slim hips long dark hair and a very bewitching smile. He would watch her as she worked on the line, how her hands would pick off what was not wanted. He would also walk by her and smile her way or talk to her about work and what she was doing after it.
Lynn being young and with James being her foreman would always talk back with know harm she thought in it. However one of the woman started to notice that James would always make to Lynn first in the morning. She knew something was up by the way he looked her over each time they met. She said to Lynn about this at there breaks but it would seem Lynn brushed it off.
However James changed the way he worked he started taking breaks at the same times as Lynn did he would sit close by her and her friends and would often speak to her even when she was talking to her friend. Then he started asking her to stay back and work on more hours, needing the money she agreed to this. However one day he asked her to stay back after work.
By the end of the month she had told some of her friends that she was looking for a new job. That was until, a new trolley boy started Kevin she was soon in love with his jokes and take on life how he always seemed to look on the bright side. Although he was older and not very tall he got to her heart. Lynn would talk to him more and more as he passed by her work station. This did not go unnoticed by the foreman who soon started making sure Kevin was kept away from Lynn.
At the end of one day Kevin asked Lynn to join him she said yes and the went to the near by Inn the Whiteheart Inn for a meal.
It was their that there love became real for the first time they laughed and talked all night. At the end of the night he walked her the short distance to her house. When they said goodbye they knew they would see each other again. They did not know they were being watched from the dark alleyway by the foreman James, evil on his mind he set out after Kevin. Meaning to have words with him he caught up to him at the end of the Grassmarket and called to him to stop.
Kevin must have knew what was going to happen he ran up the street calling for help. A shot rang out Kevin fell blood coming from the open wound to his back. James now fearing for himself started to run but was caught by two of the town guard who had been making late night call of their own. James was taken to the Tollbooth there he told of his crime. That he could not live without Lynn and had tried to kill Kevin. He said all he wanted to do was to warn Kevin off Lynn tell him that he was no good for her, but when Kevin ran he saw red and shoot him.
Kevin was taken to a near by house and a doctor was called Kevin died in the house that night never seeing Lynn again. It is said his last words were I love her.
On the 26th September 1790 James Hill was hanged for murder, he always said he did not mean to kill him and it was to protect Lynn from harm that he had to have words with Kevin that night. He went to the hang mans rope still calling out that he loved Lynn.
After words Lynn was often seen in the graveyard at Kevin’s grave tears running down her face. To this day her ghost is said to still sit by his grave with tears in it’s eyes and sadness in her heart.
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