The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-07-06

walls" cried another. what sort of
talk is this for a public inn?'
"Sllll 1t be a ltany, my good
clerl.?' shouted third: or would a
hymn be. good enough to serye?"
The jongleur had put down his harp
In high dudgeon. Am | to be
staring across at Alleyne with an in
famed and angry countenance. 'Is a
hairless infant to raise tongue
against me, when have sung in every
fair from Tweed TO Trent, and have
twice been named aloud by the High
Court of the Minstrels at Beverly? l
shall sing no more tonight
NAY, but you will So" said one of
the laborers. "Hii Dame Eliza, bring
a stoup of your best to VIII, to clear
his throat Go forward with thy song
and IL our girl-faced clerk does not
love 1t he can take to the road and go
whence he came
"Nay, but not too fast" broke in
Horde John. There are words
in this matter. 1t may be that my
little comrade has been over-quick in
reproof, he having gone early into the
cloisters and seen little of the rough
ways and words of the world Yet
tLItit 10 lIull III NIldl llt ". LOT Us
you know well. the song was not of
the cleanest. I shall stand by him.
therefore. and he shall neither be put
out on the road, nor shall his ears be
offended indoors
Indeed. your high and mighty
grace" sneered one of the yeomen,
have you In sooth so ordained?'
"By the Virginr' said second. II
think that you may both chance to
find yourselves upon the road before
long"
"And so belabored as to be scarce
able to crawl along it," cried a third.
NAY. | shall go! l shall Eo!" said
Alleyne hurrledly, as Horde John be-
gan to roll up his sleeves, and bare
an arm like leg of mutton. Il would
not have you brawl about me"
flush, lad" he whispered, Il
count them not fly. They may find
they have more tow on their distaff
than they know how to spin. Stand
thou clear and give me space"
Both the foresters and the laborers
had risen from their bench, and Dame
Eliza and the travelling doctor had
flung themselves between the two
parties with soft words and soothing
gestures, when the door of the Pied
Merlin was flung violently open and
the attention OF the company was
drawn from their own quarrel to the
newcomer who had burst so uncere-
moniously upon them.
CHAPTER ".
He was a midllr-sized man, Of most
massive and robust build, with an
arching chest and extraordinary
breadth of shoulder. His shaven face
was as brown as "A hazel-nut tanned
and dried by the weather, with harsh
well-mnrked features, which We're not
improved by long white scar which
stretched from the corner OF his left
nostril to the angle Of tie Jaw His
eyes were bright and searching, with
something Of menace and Of authority
in their quick glitter. and III month
was firm-set and hard, ms hedttcd one
who was wont to set his face AGAINST
danger straight sword by his side
and n painted lonC-bow iutting over
his shoulder proclaimed bis profession,
while his SCARED brigandlne Of chain
mail and his dlnted steel cap showed !
that he was no holiday soldier but one
who was even now fresh from the /
wars. A white surcolt. with the Lion
of st. George in red upon the centre, /
covered his lvoad breast. while a .
sprig of new-plucked broom at the |
side of his head-gear gave touch of |