Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-08

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 Good Yet l have changed mine You shall say farewell to your cousin as you desired
 Sire pleaded Goodwin. spare her such sight
 But he pleaded in vain. A while passed, and Goodwin. hearing the sweep of robes. looked np and saw the tall shape of Il yelled woman standing ill the corner of the vault where the shad ow was so deep that the torchlight only glmmered faintly upon her royal orna. ments.
 "1hey told me that you were sick princess sick with sorrow, as we'll you may be- because the man you love was about to die for you" said Saladin in slow voice s'Now ! have had pity on your grief. and his fife has been bought with nnother life, that of the knight who stanus yonl'eis
 The yelled form started wildly. then sank back against the wall.
 "Rosanund " broke in Goodwin, speaking in French, Il beseech you. lc silent and do not unman me with words or tears. 1t is best thus. and you know that il is best. Wulf you love as he loves you, and l believe that in time you will be brought together. Me you dc not love- save as d frlent' and never have. :. Moreover, 1 tell ths that it may ease your pain and my conscience. I no longer seek you as my wife. whose bride is death. ] pray you, give to Wulf my love and bless ing, and to Masouda. that truest and most sweet Woln1n, say. or write. that I offer her the homage of my heart that 1 thought of her in my last mo- ments. and that my prayer is we may meet again where all crooked paths are aightened. Rosamund, farewell peace and joy go with yon through many years-aye. and with your chil- dren's children. Of Goodwin l only ask you to remember this, that he lived serving you and so died"
 She heard and stretched out her arms, and, none forbidding him. God win walked to where she stood. With out lifting her veil she bent forward and kissed him, first upon the brow and next upon the lips, then with low, moaning cry she turned and fled 1 from that gloomy place. nor did Sala- din seek to stay her. Only to himself the sultan wondered how it came about that if it was Wulf whom ROsamund loved she still kissed Goodwin thus upon the lips.
 As he walked back to the death place Goodwin wondered also. first that Rosa ! mund should have spoken no single word and secondly because she had kissed him thus, even in that hour. With sigh. he knelt down before the headsman and turning to the bishop, 1 said:
 strike
 Then it was that he heard a well known footstep and looked up to see 1 Wulf staring at him.
 "What do you here, Godwin?" asked 1 Wulf. Has wonder fox shared both of us?" and he nodded at Saladin.
 ..Le, the fox speak said the sultan, with smile. Know. Sir Wulf, that your brother was about to die in your place and of his own wish. But l re- fuse such sacrifice who yet have made use of it to teach my niece the prin- cess. that should she continue in her plot!ings to escape or allow you to continue in them certainly it will bring YOU to yoni deaths and. if need be. her also. kn!:e,.ts. you are brave men whom prefer to kill in war. Good horses stand without take them as my l gift and ride with these foolish citizen of Jerusalem. We may meet again within ifs streets. Nay. thank me not. l thank you who have taught Salah-ed- diN ho'-' n@vfect 8 thing can be the love Of brothers.'
 1 The brethren stood awhile hcwil. l dered, ft, it is Ii s.r"n"' 1.l.as t-us ta come ter..: e-c:n G,atH 10 life. i. w&> Wulf who spoke the first.
 "A noble .:ee;l. Golvin. Su..tan. we are gratefu! for your boon of life though had you shed this innocen; blood surely it would have stained you soul"
 Outside that gloomy place of dcat their swords were given them and tW good horses. which they noun c Hence guides led them to tl'e s1,l'aS ]! from Jerusalem that was already ii the saddle, who were very Gla1l to wei ] cone two such knights to their com 1 nany. Thea. having bid farewell ta t,.e bishop EGbert, who wept for joy 1 at their escape. escorted for awhile b.. l Sllat,in's soldiers, they rode away from l Ascalon at the fall of night. Soon they had told each other all l there was to tell. When he heard c. 1 the wee of Rosamnnd. Wulf well nigh | shed tears
 We have our lives" he said, "bu! how shall we save her? While Masou- da stayed with her there was some 1 hope. but now l can see none"
 There is none except ill God, an swernd Godwin, ''wllo can do all thinsa -eypn free Rosamund and make he1