The National tribune., 1899-06-22

hearing many Christian voices, ringing.
now with curses, now with prayers, and
now with shouts of triumph, he called out
at the top of his voice. a
''On, brothers.! on to the artillery! ad-
yance!-Strike well, and forward!-Ho.
Lorenzo! comrade! where art thou? and
why answerest thou not?'
A g,lrgling sound, as of one suffocating
in the flood, drew his eye to the lake almost
under his feet. The water rippled. as if
lately disturbed by the falling of some
heavy body; and just where the circling
waves washed sluggishly up the shelving
dixie there lay a white mass like human
figure. the head and shoulders buried in the
tide. The wash of the ripple stirred the gar
ments. and, in part, the corse, so that it
still seemed to be living; but when the nov
ice had caught it up. he beheld the visage
of very youthful girl, her forehead cloven
by sword of obSidian, and the broken
weapon wedged fast in the brain. At the
same instant, the water parted hard by
and there rose up a dark object, that seemed
the back of a horse, across which lay the
body, of man in bright armor, the legs up-
wards, but the head and breast engulfed.
For an instant, this dreary sight was pre-
sented; but, slowly, the steed, whose nos
trils were still under water, as if held down
by the grasp of the dead rider, rolled over
on his side, and the body, slipping off the
other way, sunk headlong and silently into
and the next moment the waters were at
rest.
God rest thee, LoreHzo!' cried the novice,
laying down the corse of Eugracia. "Thy
life and thy hopes, thy ambition and thy
love. are ended together-but now can |
not lament thee"
He started up, as the causeway suddenly
shook with the tramp Of hoofs, and cava-
lier, without speer or r5heim, dashed madly
BY. Almost at thslmoment of passing
whether il was that the stfength of the fugi-
tive had suddenly given out, or whether,
as seemed more probable, a flight of arrows
horse and rider, theiisteed made fierce
bound into the air;reand. then pursued his
course, masterless. ,iI1s '
"Follow onwardSs;ye men of the rearl''
cried the novice, strHok with a sudden hor-
ror; for now he became conscious that the
artillery had beer, n,1for several moments.
silent; and when hedooksd after the flying
perceive anything, iqbe could hear fierce
voices mingling togdElenin strife; and pres
emily the riderleSS h0rse,CaS if driven back
by a wall of foes, retutsed, passing him
again with the speedaof the wind.
The limbs of thal cavalier were nerved
with the strength offuryafor he thought he
heard the screams ofiJacinto, ascending
with the harsher cries of the gunners; and
scarcely. did that frightened charger fiy
more swiftly from the battle, than he him.
self now back to it. -' = 49,
"Thy duty, knave Lazaro!' he cried
E"The boyi-save the boyr'
"Don Amadori oh, AmadorI Don ANA.
dorl" came to his ears, in voice that rent
his heart.
81 come! I GOMEZ shouted the cavalier
redoubling his exertions, hut not his speed,
for that was at the highest.
"Oh, heaven, Amador! Amador!-r. >,
In his distraction, the neophyte con.
founded two voices into one; and while he
replied to one, his thoughts flew to another
81 come! Answer me-where art thou?
am here:-where art thour'
AS he uttered these words, he spranp
through the artillery, which was without
servers,-among bodies which We're life
less,-and stood alone,-for there was nc
living creature there but himself,-o the
borders of the sluice, the beam over which
was broken off in the middle, and the fur
ther portion, only, left standing in its place.
He cast his amazed and affrighted, eye
from the water, heaving as before with the
struggles of dying men, to the corpse on
whose bosom he was standing.-In the
grinning countenance, covered with blood.
and horribly mutilated by blow which
had pierced through the mouth. jaws and
throat, to the severed spine, he beield the
features of LaZarO, fixed in DEATH and
looked wildly at his side, to discover the
body of the page. No corse of Jacin.o was
there; but, on the ground, where he had
stood, on the spot where he had charged
him to stand, the novice perceived a Jewel.
catching a ray from the distant fire, glitter
ing red as with blood, and held by a gold
en- chain 10 which it was attached, i'm the
death-graSp of the henchman. He snatched
it from the earth and from the hand of the