The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-12-08
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.aliv anoo me on the guest, and you, sir"
turning to Sir Dinar, must many
times long to die, yet reach nearer
by a foot"
"Let it be as God WILL" answered
Sir Dinar. "But hast thou any tidings
to guild" uss:"
Il have heard,' said she, THAT it
v7as seen latest in the land of Gore, be-
VOID Trent water" And with her white
finger she pointed down a narrow glade
that led to the northwest. So they
thanked her and pricked II, none guess
Ing that she herself was King JriC2ce's
wife Of Gore, and none other than Quecn
Morgan L Fa7, the fa!1c-z orcacEtress,
who foc loss Of her eerfalcon wa light
ly sending Sir Dinsr to his rain.
So al that day they rode, Two ard
two, il the strait alley thai she had
pointed ont, and by her entertainments
she made the winter trees 10 mov with
them, serried close Oil either hand, so
that, though the four knights visit moth
ing of if, they advanced not a furlong
for all their haste. Bat toward HishtIal1
there appeared close ahead q blaze OF
windows lit and then q tall castle with
din towers soaring up and shaking to
the din Of nlinstrelsy. And finding a
great company about the doors they lit
down from their horses and stepped into
the great hall, Sir Dinar leading them.
For awhile their eyes We're daZed, seeing
that sc0nces f1ared IL every wlnGoN,
and the place was full CT knights and
danlsels brightly clad, and the foo-
shonc. But while they were yet blink
ing q band of maidens came and IN
bucblcd their arms and cast a shining
cloak upon each, which was hardly done
! when G lady came toward them out OF
the tllrong, and though size was truly
the Queen Morgan le Fay they knew
her not at all. for by her necronlancy
she had altered her countenance.
Come, Dance said she, for i'll N
instant the musicians will begin"
Now the other three knights tarried
awhile, being weary, but Sir Dinar step
ped forward and caught the hand of a
damsel, and she, as she gave it, laughed
in his eyes. She was dressed all i'll scar
let, with scarlet shoes, and the hair lay
on her shoulders like FURNISHED gold.
AS Sir Dinar set his arm around her
with a crash the merry band began, and
floating out with him into the dance,
her red shoes twinkling and her tossed
hair shaking spices under his nostrils,
she leaned back a little i'll his arms and
laughed again.
1t happened that Sir Galhaltin, lean
ing by the doorway, heard the laugh
and saw her feet twinkle like blood red
moths, and he called to Sir Dinar. But
Sir Dinar heard nothing, nor did any of
the dancers turn their heads, though he
called again more loudly. Then Sir Sen
trail and Sir Ozanna also began to call,
fearing they knew not what for their
comrade. But the guests still drifted by
as they were ghosts, and Sir Dinar, with
the red blood showing beneath the down
on his cheeks, smiled and whiried with
the woman upon his arm.
By and by his breath came shortly,
and he would have rested, but she de.
MED him.
For a moment" he said, "because
l EaVO ridden lar today
But she hung the more heavily uror
his arm, and still the music went on
And now, gazing upon her, he wa:
frightened, for it seemed she was grow
ing older under his eyes, with deep line.
sinking into her face. and the flesh O.
her neck and bosom shfiveling up 81
that the skin hung loose and gathered
in wrinkles. And now he heard tn
voices OF his companions calling abou
the door and would have cast off tn
sorceress and run to them. But when b.
tried, his arm was welded around he,
waist, nor could he stay his feet.
The three knights now, seeing swea
upon his face, and the looks he cast to
ward them, would have broken in ant
, freed him, but they, too, were by en-
chantment held there in the doorway
So, with their eyes starting, they mus
needs stay there and watch it all, ant
while they stood the boards became a
molten brass under Sir Dinar's feet, ant
the bag slowly withered in his embrace
and still the music played, and the 9th
er dancers cast him never a look as l.
whirled round and round again. But a
length, with never a stay in the music
his partners feet trailed heavily, an,
bending forward she shook her whit
locks clear Of her gaunt eyes, and laugh
, ed a third time, bringing her lips clos
to his. And the poison of death was il
her lips as she kissed him upon tn
r mouth. With that kiss there was
crash, the lights went out, and tn
music died away in a wall, and til
three knights by the door We're caugh