Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-20

Jack; y are Joanna Sedlev; " are thu
mali inst would not msrry me-"
Tie girl paused, and stood silent snC
| motionless. Dick, too, w.s silent fol
little; then he spoke sgain.
"Johnns," re said, "y' ave saved mi
| life and have saved yours; and We have
seen blood flow and been friends and enc
mies-sy, and tcSk my belt to thrash
Youi and sll that time thought ye were
a boy. But now death hes NE and M
| times GU. and before die / must SPY
this: Y are the best maid and the bray
J est under heaven and, II only could
live, would NARY you blithsly; and
live or die, love you"
| She ans Wered nothing.
"Come," he said, "speak up, Jack
Come, be good m.id and say ye love
mel"
"Why, Dick" she cried, "would'I be
here?"
"Well, see ye here" continued Dick
and, an we're to die, we die and there's
found ye my chamber"
"I asked it of Dame Hatch" she an.
swered.
DWELL, the DANES staunch," he an
sWered; "she'u not tell upon you. We
have time before u.s."
And Just then, as if to contradict his
words, feet came down the corridor, and
q fist beat roughly on the door.
"aere!" cried voice. "Open Master
Dick; open!"
Dick neither moved nor answered.
"It is ell over" said the girl; and she
put her arms about Dicks peck.
Oae sitter another, men csme tronpiDg
to the door. Then Str Dauiel arrived
himself, and there was sudden cessation
OF the noise.
"Dick," cried the knight, fbe not an
ass. The Seven Sleepers h.G been awake
ere now. We know she is wiEnin there.
Open then, the door, msn."
Dick WAS again silent.
"Do1n with it," said Sir Daniel. Ano
Immediately his followers fell savqSely
upon the door wit foot and fist. Solid
az it was, ana strongly bclte6, it would
soon have given agsy; but once more
fortune interiered. Over the thunder
storm of blows the cry Of q sentinel WAS
heard; it wss foilowed By snotrer; shouts
ran along the ba;tiement shouts
answered out OF The wood. In the first
moment of slsrm ii sC~~ded ss il the for
esters were Carrying the Mat House by
assault. And Sir Daniel End his men de-
sistiDg instantly from their attack upon
Dicks chamber, hurried TO defend the
walls.
"Now," cried Dick, 1--WE are saved"
He seized the great old bedsteSd with
both hands, AID b4nt himself IN vain to
move 1t.
"Help me, jack. For your LES s1ke,
help me stoutIy !" be cried.
Between them, with huge effor', Il ~
dragged the big frame OF oak across the
room, and thrust it endwise to the cham
Der door.
aye do but make things worse" said
Joapns sadly. "He will then enter by
the trap."
"Not so," replied Dick. "He burst
not tell his secret to So many. II is by
the trap that we shall fee. Hark! The
attack is over. Nay, it was mcneil"
1t had, indeed, been no attack. II wss
the arrival OF another party Of straggers
from the defest of Risiugbam that had |
DISTURBED Sir Daniel. They had run the |
gauntlet under cover CT the darkness;
they had been admitted by the great
gate; and now, with great stamping Of
noois and jingle of accoutrements and
arms, they were dismounting in the court. |
"He will return anon" said Dick. "To |
The trap!"
He lighted lamp, and they went to-
yether ilto the corner of the room. The |
open chink through which the light had |
wss easily discovered, and tax
ug stout sword from his small armoury
Dick thrust it deep Into the seam and |
weighed strenuously on the hilt. The
rap moved, gaped little, and st length
,sme widely open. Selling it with their
lands, the TWO young folk threw it back.
It disclosed few steps descending into
he darkness.
"Now," said Dick, stake ye the lamp
Ind go first. will follow to close the
rap"
So they descended one after the other,
Ind IS Dick lowered the trap the blows
began once again to thunder on the pam
is of the door.