Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-02-07
10! GREAT TONGUE BURST THROUGH THE WINDOW


for love of mel" And again he turned
him to Joceliande. Now all the rev.
erence | held thee in is turned to ha-
tired, God be thanked; such is the guer-
don of thy love for me-"
Joceliande, when she heard his in
juries, knew indeed that her love was
unavailing, and that by no means might
she win him to share her siege with
her Therefore her love changed to
bitter fury, aud standing up forthwith
she babe the mobiles take their swords
and smite off the Sieur Rudel's head.
But no one 50 much as moved a hand
toward his hilt. Then spake Rudel
again:
20 vile and treacherous," he cried,
who will obey tbee?" and his eyes fell
upon SOlita where she lay in her white
beauty upon the golden pillow Of her
hair. Thereupon he dropped again up
on his knees by the couch and took
her within his arms, kissing her lips
and her eyes, and bidding her wake;
this with many tears But seeing she
would not, but was dead in very truth,
he got him to his feet and turned to
where the princess stood like stone in
the middle of the chamber Now for
thy sin" he cried, "a shameful death
shalt thou die and a painful, and may
the devil have thy soul"
He babe the mobiles depart from the
chamber, and following them the last,
firmly barred the door upon the outside.
Thus was the princess Joceliande left
alone with dead SOlita, and ever she
heard the closing and barring of doors
and the sound Of feet growing fainter
and fainter. But no one came to her
loud though she cried, and sorely was
she afraid, gazing now at the dead
body, now wondering what manner Of
death the Sieur Rudel planned for her.
Then she walked to the window if by
any chance she might win help that
way. and saw the ships riding at their
anchorage with sails loose, and heard
the songs of the sailors as they made
ready to cast free; and between the
coast and the castle were many men
hurrying backwards and forwards
with all the purveyance OF a voyage.
Then did she think that she was to be
left alone in the tower, to starye TO
death in company with the girl she had
murdered, and great moan she made;
but other device was in the mind Of my
ingenious master Lord Rudel. For all
about the castle he piled stacks Of wood
and drenched them with oil, bethink-
ing him that Solita his wife, If little
iov she had had of her life should have
undeniable honor in her obsequies And
so having set fire to the stacks, he got
him into the ships with all the COM
pany that had dwelled within the cas-
tie and drew out little way from
shore. Then the ships lay to and
watched the flames mounting the castle
walls. The tower wherein the Princess
Joceliande was prisoned was the top
most turret of the building, so that
many a roof crushed in. and many
rampart bowed out and crumbled TO
the ground. or ever the fire touched it.
But lust as the night was drawing on,
10, great tongue of fame burst
through the window from within. and
the Sieur Rudel beheld in the midst of
il as it were the figure of a woman
dancing.
Thereupon he signed to his sailors to
hoist the sail again. and, the other
ships obeying his example, he led the
way CALAMITY to Broye
(The End