Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-22

"hew is 1t TO bee Do re make war upol
the failen?"
III made no VAT upon your Hfe," re,
piled the lad; ar Vas your true f.ienC
until Ye sought for miIe; bu. ye Law
sought for Il g1eecjIy."
"Say; sslf defense" replied the knight
"Aud now, boy, the news OF this battle
and the presence CT yon crooked devi
here in mine own wood, have broken mt
beyond al help. l GO TO Hollywood fol
sEnctusTy; tGepce oversees, with Uhst
csn carry. and begin life sgain in Bur
gundy or france"
eye may net go 10 Hollywood" said
Dick.
How! May not?" asked the knight
Look ye, Sir Daniel, this is ny mar
risee morn" said Dick; "snd yon sur
thaE is TO rise will make the hr.ghtestsday
that ever shOne for me. Your life is
forfel'-doubly forfeit, for my fA!her's
death end your own practices 10 me-
Wsrd. But myself have done amiss;
have brought shout mems deaths aud
upon this glad day will be neither judge
nor nangman. An we were the devil,
would not lay hand on you. An ye
were lie devil, yo might go where We Will
Tor NE. Seek Gods forgiveness; mine
I ~ AH'S AACC-S ous 81 Ou w IOlJ NOOu
is different carry arms for York, and
will suffer no spy WITHIN their lines.
Hold 1t, then, for certsin, If ye set one
foot before another, will up.lf: my voice
| end CAL q e nearest pest to sc "a you."
eye mock me-" said Sir Daniel. 81
have no safety cut of Hollywood"
Il care no more" returned Richard
q let you 20 east, w:S!, or Serb; north
l will not. Hollywood IS shut against You
Go, and seek not to return. For, once ye
are gore, L will warn every post about
this army, ard there will be SO shreWd
| watch upon ell pilgrims that, once again
were " tbs veEy devil, We would tlpd il
ruin to make the essay"
aye doom me-" SAID Sir Daniel, gloom
iy.
II doom you not" returned Richard.
at It SO please you 10 set your valcur
against mice, come CT and though | fear
1t be dIsloYs! 10 ny pSrty, WI. IKE the
challenge openly aad fully, hghl you with
mne own single strength, snd csll fer
none 20 help me. Sc seal | avGnge LIN
father. with perfect CO.'S 3!ence."
CAV" said Sir Daniel, "y' have lcGg
sword agalns. my degger."
~ Ie!y upon hsavea only" answered
Dick. casting his sword some wey behind
MIN on the snow. Now, il your ill-fsle
bids you, come, sEd uuder the pleasure Ci
the Almighty, make myself bold 10 FEED
your bones TO foXss."
"I d!d bat try ycu, D.ckon," returned
the knight, win an uaaas? gem5lEDce OF
a laugh. ~ would not spill your blood"
"G0 :heu, ere il De too lste," replica
Shelton. 'In i've minutes will call the
post. do perceive that an too long
suffering. Had but our places been re-
yersed should have been bound hand
e9d foot some minutes past"
'WeL, DickoD, l Will So" replied Sir
Daniel. "When we nGx5 meet, it shall
repent you that We were SO harsh"
And with these words, the knight
turned and begsn to move of under the
.rees. Dick watched him with strangely
mir gled feelings, as he went, swiftly and
Warily, ana ever and sgain turning &
wicked eye upon the lad who had spared
him, aud whom he still suspected.
There vas upon one side OF where he |
went a thicket, strongly matted with |
green ivy, end, even in It's winter state, |
lmpeIvious to the eye. Herein, all OF 4
sudden, bow sounded like s note Of |
music. An arrow few, and with & great,
choked CRY of sgony and anger, the Knight |
Of TeEstall threw up MS 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 comforting |
spssns.
SIS the srroW blsck?" he gssped.
sit is black" replied Dick, grsyely.
And then, before he could add one |
word, desperate seizure OF psin shook |
the wounded man from head TO foot, so |
thst h!s body leaped in Dicks supporting
arme. AID with the extremity Of that pare |
his spirit fed in silence.
The yculg man lid him back gently or
the snow and prayed for that unprepared
AID guilty spirit, and IS he prayed the
sun came up ST a bound, and the robins
began chlrping in The ivy.
When he rose So his feet, he found an
other man upon his knees but few steps
behind him, sad, still with uncovered
head, re waited un,ii thst prayer also
should De over. 1t took long; the man,
with his head bowed and ais face covered
with his hands, prayed like one in e great
disorder or distress of mind; and by the
bow that lay beside hin, Dick judged
that he was no other than the archer who
had Ia Sir Daniel low
At length he also, rose, and sho wed the
OF Ellis DuckHorth.
"R chard," ne said, very gravely, az
beard you. Ye took the better part SnG
Oardoned; took the worse, snd there
lis the clay Of nine enemy. Pray fer
ne"
And he wruDg him By the hand.
"Sir," said Richard, 81 Will pray fer
you. Indeed; though nov may prevail l
Sot not. Bat If ye have SO long pursued
'evenge, and hnd it now of such sorry
isvour, bethiuk ye, were it not well 10 !
pardon othere2 Hatch-he is dead, poor 7
'hreW L would have spared G better;
md for Sir Daniel, here lies his body. ,
But for the priest, II might anywise pre- {
'ail, would nave you let him go"
A fash came into the eyes OF Ellis q
)uckworth. t
"Nay," he said, "the devil is still
trong within me. But be at rest; the
Black Arrow fieth nevernore-the feI-
D wship is broken. They that still live
hall come to their quiet and ripe end, in
eaven'5 good time, for me; and for
oucself, 90 where your better fortune
ais you, and think NJ more OF Ellis"
CHAPTER VIII.
CONCLUSION.
About in the morning Lord Foxhsm