The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-20
continued from Last Sundays News.)


fore YOU answer. At Damascus many
donqers await you; with me you will
and safety and a Christian husband
Tho loves you well-so well that for
vour sake he is willing to lose his ship
and what is more, to break faith with
caIadin. whose arm is strong"
"Have DONE" she said coldly. Soon
~ will l trust myself to an honest
Saracen than to you, Sir Hugh, whose
snurs. If you met your desert, should
he hacked from your heels by soul
lions Yes, sooner would l take death
for my lord than you. who for your
own base ends devised the plot that
brought my father to his murder and
me to slavery. Have done, l say, and
never dare again to speak of love to
me who hate you,' and rising she
walked past him to her cabin.
But Lozelle looking after her NUT
tered to himself, NAY, fair lady, I
have but begun; nor will 1 forget your
hitter words, for which you shall pay
the merchant knight in kisses"
From her cabin Rosamund sent
message to Hassan, saying that she
would speak with him.
He came, still pale with illness, and
asked her WILL wherein she told him
what had passed between Lozelle and
herself, demanding his protection
against this man. Hassan's eyes
flashed.
"Yonder he stands he said, "alone.
Will you come with me and speak to
bim?"
She bowed her head, and giving her
his hand, he led her to the poop.
Sir Captain he began, addressing
Lozele, the princess here tells me a
strange story-that you have dared to
offer your love to her. by Allah! to
her, a niece of Salah-ed- din
What of it, Sir Saracen?" answered
I1ozele, insolently. rs not Christian
knight fit mate for the blood of an
Eastern chief? Had 1 offered her less
than marriage, you might have spoken.
"You!" answered Hassan, with rage
in his low voice, you, huckstering
thief and renegade, who swear by Ma
homet in Damascus and by your
prophet Jesus in England-ay, deny it
not, have heard you, as 1 have heard
that rogue, Nicholas, your servant.
You, her fit mate? Why, were it not
that you must guide this ship, and
that my master bade me not to quar-
rel with you till your task was done,
l would behead you now and cut from
your throat the tongue that dared to
speak such words" and as he spoke
he gripped the handle of his scimitar.
Lozelle quailed before his fierce eyes,
for we'll he know HaSsan, and knew
also that if it came to fighting his
sailors were no match for the elnir and
his picked Saracens.
When our duty is done you shall
answer for those words,'' he said, try
ing to look brave.
By Allah! 1 hold you to the prom
lse' replied Hassan. Before Salah-
ed-din l will answer for them when
and where you will, as you shall an
sWer to him for your treachery."
OF what, then, am / accused?" ask
ed Lozelle. "Of loving the lady Rosa
mund, as do all men-perhaps your
self, old and withered as you are,
among them?"
Aye, and for that crime 1 will repay
you, old and withered as 1 am. Sir
Renegade. But with Salah-ed-din YOU
nave another score to settle-that by
promising her escape you tried to Sc
duce her from this ship, where you were
sworn to guard her, saying that you
would find her refuge among the Greeks
of Cyprus"
Were this true" replied ,Lozelle.
the Sultan might have cause of COM
paint against me. But it is not true.
Hearken, since speak / must. The
lady Rosamund prayed me to do this
deed and l told her that for nv hon.
ours sake it is not possible, although
IL was true that 1 loved her now as
always, and would dare much for her.
Ihen she said that if l did but save
her from you Saracens, should not
go without my reward, since she would
wed me. Again, although it cost me
sore, l answered that it might not be.
nut when once / had brought my ship
10 land, l was her true knight, and
being freed of my oath, would do my
pest to save her."
Princess, you hear" said Hassan,
turning to Rosamund. "What saw
you?"
Il say" she answered coIdly. chat
this man lies to save himself. | say.
moreover, that 1 said to him, that soon
er would l die than he should lay a
finger on me.''
I hold also that he lies," said Has
san. Nay; unclasp that dagger IL
you would live to see another sun.
here, l will not fight with you, but
salah-ed-din shall learn all this case
When we reach his court, and Judge
between the word of the Princess of
Baalbec and of his hired servant, the
zele."
Let him learn it-when we reach
MS court" answered Lozelle, with
meaning; then added, Have you aught
else TO say to me, Prince Hassan? Be-
cause If not, 1 must be attending to
tne business of my ship, which you
suppose that I was about to abandon
10 win ladys love-"
only this, that the ship is the Sui
S an and not yours, for he bought it
rom you, and that henceforth this lady
W III De guarded daxy v,fo
upuDiy guarded when we come to the
slores of Cyprus, where it seems that
member"
understand and certainly I will
parted. s' anu '' '"eS
think" said Rosamund, when he
&c, n"u gone, that we shall be fortunate
IL we land safe in Syria.
4h, mat was in my mind, also, lady. /
LINK LINK too, that have forgot my wis
IN, In put my heart rose against this
nan and being still weak from sick
u ,,gss. lost my judgment and spoke
don d. was In my heart, who would
VII De best to kill him, II II were
a tot mat he alone has the skill to navi-
saee the ship, which is a trade that he
Z. lao uOllowed from his youth. Nav. let
IS, go as Allah Wills. He Is tust. and
az az 1rlng the matter to Judgment in
Ros res but to what judgment?' asked
al l hope to that OF the sword" an
b"eTeu Hassan, as he bowed and LEFT
From From that time forward armed men
Rosere eu an the night through before