The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-28
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Sir Roger, and It is well worth and True
loves" and Trays all the just like Ge-
lert, is evidently one of a genus" There
have been "Gelerts'' and "Trueloves'' and
Trays" all the world over and from all
time, written or told of in every language
from China to Peru
Truelove, the greyhound" of the good
Sir Roger, accompanies his master when
he sets out to personally conduct the
Queen of Aragon, the wife of King Ar
cad, across the frontier of the kingdom,
whence she has been baniShed in conse-
cuence of the Vaccinations of Sir Marrock,
the Kings steward. The little party is
treacherously waylaid and attacked. The
| Queen escapes, but Sir Roger is slain, in
spite of the valiant efforts of Truelove.
And when the knight Is dead
His good hound, for veal nor woe,
Would not from his master go,
But lay licking his wounds;
He meant to have helped him again,
Thereto he did all his main
Great kindness is in hounds.
Then, at the end of seven years, he goes
to the Kings palace and strangles Sir
MaTock.
The old metrical historian does not tell
us why he delayed his vengeance for so
long. The King and the court wonder at
his conduct, but follow the dog.
They found Sir Roger in his grave
AS whole as he was laid.
They exhume his body and rebury it
with great pomp, and Truelove takes his
place upon the new grave and remains
there till he dies. So to the Crusades and
| to LEO"
The young knight Sir Ralph de Sudley
| had fought in Palestine under Occur de
| Lion, and by many deeds OF valor had
won honor of the King, and when Duke
| Conrad fell victim to one of the ennis
! series of the old Man of the Mountains
| he had volunteered to go and punish that
| dreaded sheikh; to beard him in his fort
ress the ''Vultures' Nest" and eXtirpate
| the sect of the Assassins, of which he was
| chief. The enterprise, however, came to
nothing, but the fiery language of the
youthful warrior gave his family and the
| King bitter cause for regret later on.
On his return from the Holy Land Sir
| Ralph fell in love with the Lady Ella
more, daughter of his friend and neigh
| Dor, the Baron de Botecourt, and being
youngt handsome and famous, the course
OF love ran smoothly enough. The day
of the wedding was fixed, and King Rich
ard and his Queen had promised to grace
the festivities with their presence.
Now Sir Ralphs castle and that of the
Baron were within such easy distance OF
each other that 1t was the knights Gus
tom to ride on his visits to his lady love
unattended except by his faithful hound
Leo, and to return at night in the same
careless fashion. One evening he had
left the Baron's gate only a few minutes
when Leo's voice was heard in furious
baying and presently the hound came rush.
ing back over the drawbridge and bearing
in his mouth the blood-stainel fragment
of cloth of curious oriental fabric and pat
tern.
sFba Tadxy E,Iianore at once OWNED that
a tragedy had occurred, and calling to
the hound, flew down the avenue. The
Baron and other followed, and soon came
upon the unhappy girl outstretched in
swoon by the corpse of her gallant lover.
He had been stabbed in the back with
dagger of Eastern make, left deep-planted
in the wound, that bore on the hit the
words. "accipe hoe take this). The Old
Man of the Mountain had long memory
and an arm as long.
Sir Ralph was buried on the day that
should have seen him welded, and the
Lady Eliamore, accompanied by Leo,
paid daily visits TO his tomb in the Abbey
Church.
Two years had passed and brought no
clew to the assassins, except the frag-
ment of cloth and the dagger But one
morning as the pious lady was leaving
the church a deep growl from Leo at
tracted her attention. Two Swarthy
strangers, in the dress of foreign mer-
chants, had come In and were standing
beside the tomb; one of them seemed
10 be in the act of pointing out and
translating to the other the inscription
which it bore. AS every passing stranger
visited The Abbey, and always looked
specially at the Crusaders tomb Lady
Eliamore would have thought nothing of
the occurrence had not Leo's conduct
held her rivited to the spot The hound
was steathily approaching the two men,
every hair on his back bristling, but
silent as a shadow, and then he came
up to them, and with one fierce yell of
long -pent-up fury he few at the throat
of one of the men and pulled him to the
ground.
The other turned 10 fly, but the Sac
rlstan at the door arrested him. Then II
was found that both of them we're wear
ing under their European clothes, the
costume of the East, and that the man
upon whom Leo had flown with such fury
had the scare of deep bite upon his arm.
The aliens confessed their crime. They
were, they said, emissaries of the Old
Man OF the Mountain, and he with the
scare (where Leo two years before had
seized HIND was the actual assassin of
Sir Ralph. They were hanged upon "the
summit OF the Baron's castle, and Leo
as IL his life work was accomplished and
he had nothing further 10 live for, pined
away and died.
Inc HutHllpil u AlN 4fhhe Nyih1A , hahht
and the words "acclpe hoe take the mind
back at once to Sir Walter Scotts Tails
man." and TO Roswal the dog-hefo Of tha
story The hound Is left alone 10 Rua.d
the banner OF England. while his master,
Prince David OF Scotland, deserts has post
IN order 10 meet bis lady leve, While
he ~ away Conrad carries Off the ban
ner and all but kills Roswal. Better for
him had he quite made sure and killed
the hound. For Roswell lives 20 bring
Conrad 20 his death. He recognizes the
Duke ana tears him of his charger AZ
he passes BY az q grand review ~ the
army, which ~ got up by King Richard
on purpose % tea che hounds aagaclty.