be to the liking of all i pr y that those ill forward th ranks who the if ill to follow there s a rustle among the � when si l up at them po man rd f but the lines of men a s before sir at them in amazement and a look of the deepest sorrow his face that i should have lived to see the day i he cried what not one my fair lord whispered they have all stepped forward ah by st paul i i see how it is with them i could not think that they would desert me we start at dawn to morrow and ye are to have the horses of sir robert s company be ready i pray ye at early a of delight burst from the as they broke their ranks and ran hither and thither and cheering like boys who have news of a holiday sir gazed after them with a smiling face when a heavy hand fell upon his shoulder what ho i my knight of said a voice you are oflf to i hear and by the holy fish of you must take me under your banner what sir cried sir i had heard that you were come into camp and had hoped to see you glad and proud shall i be to have you with me i have a most particular and reason for wishing to said the sturdy knight i can well believe it returned sir i have met no man who is quicker to follow where honor leads nay it is not for honor that i go � � for what then for yes for the rascal have cleared every hen from the country side it was this very morning that my squire bis horse in riding round in quest of one for we have a bag of and to eat with them never have i seen such as this of ours not a shall we see until we are in front of them so i shall leave my to the care of the and i shall hie south with you with my at my i know you over well said sir shaking his head and the two old soldiers rode off together to their chapter how at an to the south of in the kingdom of there stretched a high table land rising into bare hills brown or gray in color and strewn with of granite on the side of the great mountains there had been running streams meadows forests and little villages here on the contrary were nothing but naked rocks poor pasture and savage gloomy or this wild country with mountain torrents dashing and foaming between their rugged sides the clatter of waters the scream of the eagle and the howling of wolves were the only sounds which broke upon the silence in that dreary and region through this wild country it was that sir and his company pushed their way riding at times through vast where the brown cliffs shot up on either side of them and the sky was but a long winding blue between the lines of box which fringed the lips of the or again leading their horses along the narrow and rocky paths worn by the upon the edges of the chasm where under their very elbows they could see the white streak which marked the gave which a thousand feet below them so for two days they pushed their way through the wild places of past over the rapid through until upon a winter s evening the mountains fell away from in front of then and they saw the broad blue its double line of and of villages the of were aroused that night by rough voices speaking in a strange tongue and are morning sir and m h d the and i ere the land of spain all the next day they lay in a pine wood ii ar to the town of r their horses and taking ds to they should do sit had with him sir william sir old sir the scotch knight the earl of and sir richard accounted among the ill the army with sixty m n at � ind three hundred and twenty ai had been sent out in the morning and returned after nightfall to i ay that the king of spain was fourteen off in the direction of having with him twenty horse forty five thousand foot a wood had been lit round this the the glare beating their rugged faces while the hardy and amid the horses while they their scanty provisions for my part said sir i am of o that we hav already done that which we have come for for do we not now know where the king is and how great a following he hath which was the end of our ti ue answered sir william but i hate come on this venture because it is a long time since i have broken a in war and shall not go back i have run a course with of spain let those go back who will but i must see more of these st ere i turn will not you sir william returned sit and yet as old soldier and one who hath seen of war i cannot but think that it is an ill thing for four men to find an army of on the one and a broad river yet said sir richard we cannot for bt of go back a blow nor for the honor of either cried the earl of by st i wish that i may never set eyes upon the water of again if i pluck my horse s ere i have seen this camp of theirs by st paul you have spoken very well said sir and i have always heard that there were very worthy gentlemen among the and fine to be had upon their 