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

Sir Lton-driver, look st me-am / 8
homely-comen
, And she made bright eyes st him.
aye sre something sns!Iish, indeed
-3s gan Dick.
A1d here sgs'n she interrupted i'm
this lime with s ringing peal II laugate
that completed his conius.ol and sul
prize.
"SmsllIsh!" she cried. "Ney, now, b
honest as We are bold; am dwarf Q
little Dettsr; but for alI tnat-come, teI
me!-tor all that. psssaoly iaig to loo
upon; is't not sC?'
"Nsy, madam, exceedingly fair" cal
the distressed knight, pitifumy trying t
seem easy.
''And q man would be right glad to we
Ia ?" she pursued.
"On, madsm, tight glad," agreed Dick
"Csll me Alicio," said sac.
2 "Aiicis," Quoth Sir Richsrd.
"Well, then, lien driver" she con
tinued, "sith thst ye slew my kinsmsn
J ana left me without stay, Je owe me, il
hoBGur, every Teparation; do re no:?"
al do, msdam," said Dick. "Although
upon my heerr, DO hold ne but par
tisily guilty OF inst brave knign =
blood"
"OuiN yC SNoOS AiSA SHC S1ICus
"M.dam, not go. l have told you al
your bidding. l will even turn me q
monk" esid Richard.
"rnen, in honor, ye belong to me?''
she concluded.
"In nonor, msdsm, 1 suppose
gan the young man.
eco to!" she Interrupted; rye are too
tul Of catches. In honor do We belong to
me, till ye have paid the evil?"
TN honor, DO" said Dick.
"Hssr, theD," she cont nued, aye would
make but sad friar, msthinks; and since
/ am 10 dispose OF YIN at lessure; will
even take you Tor m? husband. Nay,
now, no Words!n cried she. "They will
1vsil you nothing. Fer see how just it is
| list you who deprived me Of one home
should supply me with another. And IS
for Joanns, she viii be the first, believe
me, 10 commend the Change; fer, after
al, as We be dear frieGd7, what msttere it
with wtich Of Us Te wee? Not one whit"
"MhdoG," said Dick, "l will go into s
cloister, sid ye please 10 bid ms; hut to
weo with anyone in th;s bg wCTlG Decides
J0sura SedIey is what | will cor
sent TO neither fer mans force
nor yet for isdy's pleasure. Pardon
nae II speak my plain thoughts p!S!rlg;
| put where mal1 ia very bold, 2 POOR
man must even be the bolder."
! "Dick," she sid, rye sweet boy, Ye
must come and kiss me for that word
Nay, fear not, ye sha kiss mator Joanns,
sDd when We meet shall give it bsck :
heI snd ssy stole it. Ard SIS for WI,t
ye owe me, why, dear s!mpleton, ! e
thinks ye were no. alone in that g ST
battle; and even f Yotk co on the TIL re,
Il IVES not you that set him there. Bul
for good, sweet, honest heart, Dick,
y are al that; ana il could fiud IT in
my soul 20 envy your Joanrs EnyLalug, l
would even envy her your love-
CHAPTER VI.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS (CoNCLCDED) DICK
AND JUAN.
The horses hsd by this time finished the
small store OF proy6nder, and fully
breaihed from their tatigues. At Dicks
command, the FIRE YVES emothered In
snow; and while his men got once more
YEARLY to saddle, he himself, remember
ing, somewhat late, true wood
land caution, chose tall oak and
nimbiy clambered to the topmosg
fork. HaLce he could look fsr abrCXG OF
the mooplit and snow paved forest. On
the southwest, dark against the horiz n,
s'ood those uplan6, heathY quarters
wlere be and Joanna had met fi!h the
terrifying missdventure Of the leper. And
there his eye was csught by spot Of
rudy brightness no gger than
needles eye.
He blsmed himself Sharply for his pre-
viCus ne elect. Were that, as it sppesred
TO be, the shining CT Sir Daniels camp
hEe, he should long sgo have seen and
matched for it; above al, he should,
for no consideration, have announced
his neighboThood by lighting fire Of his
own. But now he mus no longer squans
der valuable hours. The direct way to the
uplHnds was shout two miles in
length; but /. was crossed by 8 very deep,
PERCEPTIONS diDgle, impossible to mounted
men; and for sake Of speed, it seemed to
Dick advisable to desert the horses and
sItempt the adventure On foot.
Ten men were left to guard the horses;
signals were agreed upon by which they
could communicate In case Of need; and |
Dick set forth st the hesd OF the re-
msiader, Al!cis Ri5inghsm walking |
ston7ly by his side.
The men had freed themselves CT hesVy |
srnor, and lett behind their lances, and |
they now marched sway with very good |
spirits in the frozen snow and unCer the |
lustre Of the moon. The de-
gcent into the dingle, where stream
s:rsiOed sobbi1g through the snow and
ice, wss effected With silence and order:
and on the further side, being then
within a short hsli mile OF where Dick
had seen the glirnmer OF fire, the party
calted to breathe before the attack.
In the ysst silence CT the woods the
lightest silence WAS audible from fsr,
and Alicis, who was keen Of hearing,
held up her finger wsrningly and stopped
10 listen. All followed her example, put
besides the groans of the choked brock
n the Gingle close behind and the bsrk-
ng of fox al distance Of many miles
among the forest, to Dick'e acutest
lsrkening, not breath wss audible.
"But yet, for sure. l heard the clash of
lsruess," whispered Alicia. {
"Madam," ruturned Dick, who WAS
more afraid Of that young lady thsn of
EN- stout warriors, ~ would not hint ye
we're mistaken; bu. 1t might well have
ome from either Of the camps" c
at came not thence. 1t came from [
she declared.
"It may be what 1t will" returned I
DICK; sand it must be as heaven please.
ieck we not iot, but push on the