Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-01
CHAPTER XVIII.

Now, one burning July night they sat upon. their horses, the moon
 Mrht cleaning on their mail. Still as statues they sat, looking out from . rocky mountain top across that gray and arid plain which stretches from near Nazareth to the lip of the hilla at whose foot lies Tiberias, on the sec sf 0alllee Beneath them, camped around the fountain of Se2Rrieh, were spread the hosts of the Franks to which 1Aey did sentinel; 1900 knights. 10000 feot and hordes of Turcopoles- is natives of the country, ar med after the fashion of the saracens.
 Tomorrow they. were to advance, so xumor said, across wonder desert plain and sive battle to Saladin, who lay with all his power by Hattin, above Tiberias. Goodwin and his brother thought that 1t was madness, for they had seen the might of the sara c&ns and ridden across that thirsty plain beneath the summer sun. God wins heart was troubled, and fear took hold of him, not for himself, but for all the countless army that lay asleep yon- der, and for the cause of Christendom
 T go to watch wonder. Ride you here" he said to Wulf, and, turning the head of Flame, rode some sixty yards over shoulder of the rock to the far fher edge of the mountain which looked toward the north. Dismounting, and bidding the horse stand, which it would do like dog, he walked forward few steps to where there was a rock. and, kneeling down. began to pray.
 It seemed to Goodwin that a sleep fell on him-at least his mind grew cloud cd and confused. Then it cleared again. slowly, as stirred water clears, till it was bright and still. Like cur tains the veils were lifted from his eyes, and as they swung aside he saw farther and yet farther.
 He saw the king of the Franks in his tent beneath, and about him the coun- ell of his captains, among them the fierce eyed master of the Templars and Count Raymond of Tripoli, the lord of Tiberias. They were reasoning togeth er till presently, in rage. the master ef the Templars drew his sword and dashed it down upon the table.
 Another veil was lifted, and, To- he saw the camp of Saladin, the mighty. endless camp, with its 10000 tents. He Jaw the royal pavilion, and in it the sultan walked alone He was lost in thought, and Goodwin read his thought. 1t was: "BehiHd me the Jordan and AAA Np Co1i 3satN vrh1 3r Hanks were turned, I should be driven. ! and all my host. In front the terri tories of the Franks, where I have no friend, and by Nazareth their grea, army. Allah alone can help me. If they sit still and force me to advance across the desert and attack them be- fore my army melts away. then I am lost. If they advance upon me round the mountain Tabor and by the WE tered land. may be lost. But if-oh. if Allah should make them mad, an they should strike straight across the desert, then-then they are lost, and the reign of the cross in Syria is Tor ever at an end"
 Look! Near to the pavilion of Sn' 0din stood another tent. closely guard cd, and in it on a cushioned bed lay two women. QIc was Rosamund. and the other was Masouda.
 The last veil was withdrawn, and now Goodwin saw sight at which his soul shivered. A fire-blackened plain and above it a drowning mountain, ani tbat mountain thick, thick with dead. thousands and thousands and thou sands of dead, among which the hy- enas wandered and the night birds screamed. He could see their faces; many of them he knew again as those of living men wLom lie had met in Jerusalem and elsewhere or had noted with the army
 x Goodwin awoke from his dream trem bling. mounted his borse and rode back to Wulf
 '"Tell me-" asked Goodwin, ''how long is it since left you!"
 "Some few minutes = ten perhaps" answered his brother.
 "A short while to have seen so much," replied Goodwin. Then he told him all and at the end asked him, hat think you?''
 Nn.t corsidered awhile and answer ed:
 "Ncll. hre;hey, you have touched no wine today, 50 you are not drunk, and you have done nothing foolish, so you are not mad Tho C.cfore it would seem that the saints have been talking to you. Our wai;.l, is ended. for l hear the horses of the knights who come to relieve us. Listen. This is my coun- sell In the camp wonder is our friend with whom We travelled from Jerusa- lem, Egbeit, tn;- bishop of Nazareth, who marches with the host. Let us go to him and lay this matter before him, for he is holy man and learned"
 Goodwin nodded in assent, and pres ently. when the other knights were come and they had made their report to them. they rode of together to the tent of Egbert.
 Egbert was an Englishman who had