Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-04-02

MoorS, and she often asked the
watchman of the tower, "What seest
thou?"
One evening at the shadowy hour
of twilight the warden sounded his
horn. 81 see," he cried, ga numer-
GUS train winding up the valley
They are mingled Moor and Chris
tlans. The banner of my Lord is
in advance. Joyful tidings!" ex-
claimed the old senechal, ''my lord
returns in triumph and brings cap
tiyes!" Then the castle courts rang
with shouts of Joy; and the standard
was displayed and the trumpets
were sounded, and the drawbridge
was lowered and Donna Maria went
forth with her ladies and he knights
and her pages and her minstrels to
welcome her lord from the wars.
But as the train drew nigh she be-
held a sumptuous bier clad with
black velvet and on it lay warrior
as if taking repose; he lay in his ar
NOR with his hemlet on his head, and
his sword in his hand, as one who
had never been conquered, and
around the bier were the escutch-
cons of the house of Hinojosa.
A number of Moorish cavaliers at
tended the bier with emblems of
mourning and with detected counte-
nances; and the leader cast himself
at the feet of Donna Maria and hid
hissface in his hands. She beheId in
him the gallant Abadil whom she
had once welcomed with his bride
to her castle, but who now came
with the body of her lord whom he
had unknowingly slain in battle!
The sepulchre erected in the clois-
ters of the convent of San Domingo,
was achieved at the expense of the
Moor Abadil, as a feeble testimony
of his grief for the death of the
good Knight Don Munio, and his
reverence for his memory. The ten
der and faithful Donna Maria soon
followed her lord to the tomb. On
one of the stones of a small arch be-
side his sepulchre, is the following
simple inscription: "Hic Jacet Pal
acin Uxor Munonis Sancij De Hino-
josa." Here lies Maria PaIacin, wife
of Munio Sancho De Hinoj0sa.
The legend of Don Munio does
not conclude with his death. On
the same day on which the battle
took place on the plains of Salmana-
ra, a chaplain at the holy temple at
Jerusalem, while standing at the
outer gate, beheld train of Christ
ian cavaliers advancing as if in pill
grimage. The chaplain was native
of Spain, and as the pilgrims ap-
preached he knew the foremost to
be Don Munio Sancho de HinoiOsa,
with whom he had been well ac-
quainted in former times. Hasten
ing to the patriarch he told him of
the honorable rank of the pilgrims
at the gate. The patriarch there
fore went forth with grand process
sion of priests and monks and re-
ceived the pilgrims with all due
honor. There were seventy cavaliers
beside their leader, all stark and
lofty warriors. They carried their
helmets in their hands, and their
faces were deadly pale. They greeted
no one, nor looked either to the right |
or to the left, but entered the chapel, !
and kneeling before the sepulehre of |
our Savior, performed their orisons
in silence. When they had conclu-
ded they rose to depart, and the pa
triarch and his attendants advanced
TO speak to them, but they were no
more to be seen. Every one marvel
led what could be the meaning of
this prodigy. The patriarch care
fully noted down the day and sent
to CASTLE to learn tidings of Don
Munio Sancho de .Hinojosa. He re-
ceived for reply that on the very
day specified, that worthy knight,
with seventy of his followers had
been slain in battle. These, there
fore. must have been the blessed
spirits of those Christian warriors
come to fulfill their VOW of a pill
grimage to the holy supulchre at
Jerusalem. Such was the Castilian
faith in The olden time, which kept
its word even beyond the grave.
If any one should doubt of the
miraculous apparition of these phan-
tom Knights, let him consult the
"History of the Kings of CASTLE and
Leon," by the learned and pious
Fray Prudencio de Sandoval, Bishop
of Pampeluna, where he will find it
recorded in the history of King Don
Alonzo, VI 1t is too precious le-
gend to be lightly abandoned to the
doubter.