his hand in his bosom as if to seize a hidden weapon awaited his approach well said sir daniel how is it to be do ye make war upon the fallen i made no war upon your life replied the lad i was your true friend until ye sought for mine but ye have sought for it nay � self defence replied the knight and now boy the news of this battle and the presence of yon crooked devil here in mine own wood have broken dick s revenge me beyond all help i go to for thence with what i can carry and to begin life again in or france ye may not go to said dick how may not asked the knight look ye sir daniel this is my marriage mom said dick and yon sun that is to rise will make the brightest day that ever shone for me your life is � doubly for my father s death and your own to me ward but i myself have done amiss i have brought about men s deaths and upon this glad day i will be neither judge nor an ye were the devil i would not lay a hand on you an ye were the devil ye might go where ye will for me seek god s forgiveness mine ye have freely but to go on to is different i carry arms for york and i will suffer no spy within their lines hold it then for certain if ye set one foot before another i will my voice and call the nearest post to seize you ye mock me said sir daniel i have no safety out of i care no more returned richard i let you go east west or south north i will not is shut against you go and seek not to return for once ye are gone i will warn every post about this army and there will be so shrewd a watch upon all that once again were ye the very devil ye would find it ruin to make the essay si the arrow ye doom me said sir daniel gloomily i doom you not returned if it so please you to set your against mine come on and though i fear it be to my party i will take the challenge openly and fully fight you with mine own single strength and call for none to help me so shall i my father with a perfect conscience ay said sir daniel y have a long sword against my dagger i rely upon heaven only answered dick casting his sword some way behind him on the snow now if your ill fate bids you come and under the pleasure of the almighty i make myself bold to feed your bones to i did but try you returned the knight with an uneasy semblance of a laugh would not your blood go then ere it be too late replied in five minutes i will call the post i do perceive that i am too long suffering had but our places been reversed i should have been bound hand and foot some minutes past well i will go replied sir daniel when we next meet it shall repent you that ye were so harsh and with these words the knight turned and began to move off under the trees dick watched him with strangely mingled feelings as he went swiftly and and ever and again turning a wicked eye upon dick s the lad who had spared him and whom he still suspected there was upon one side of where he went a thicket strongly with green ivy and even in its winter state to the eye all o� a sudden a bow sounded like a note of music an arrow flew and with a great choked cry of a and anger the knight of threw up his hands and fell forward in the snow dick bounded to his side and raised him his face desperately worked his whole body was shaken by is the arrow black he gasped it is black replied dick gravely and then before he could add one word a desperate of pain shook the wounded man from head to foot so that his body leaped in dick s supporting arms and with the extremity of that pang his spirit fled in silence the young man laid him back gently on the snow and prayed for that unprepared and guilty spirit and as he prayed the sun came up at a bound and the began in the ivy when he rose to his feet he found another man upon his knees but a few steps behind him and still with uncovered head he waited until that prayer also should be over it took long the man with his head bowed and his face covered with his hands prayed like one in a great disorder or distress of mind and by the bow that the black lay beside him dick judged that he was no other than the who had laid sir daniel low at length he also rose and showed the countenance of richard he said very gravely i heard you ye took the better part and i took the worse and there lays the clay of mine enemy pray for me and he wrung him by the hand sir said richard i will pray for you indeed though how i may prevail i not but if ye have so long pursued revenge and find it now of such a sorry ye were it not well to pardon others � he is dead poor i i would have spared and for sir daniel here lies his body but for the priest if i might prevail i would have you let him go a flash came into the eyes of nay he said the devil is still strong within me but be at rest the black arrow � the 