The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-06-04
The Brethren
BY RIDER HAGGARD,
Author of She" King S0lomon's Mines" Etc.
C0PrRIGHT 19o5-l9o+. Y RIDER HAGGARD

BY RIDER HAGGARD,
Author of She" King Solomons Mines"

CHAFIFEt LINE opening scenes
of the story are laid in England, to-
ward the close of the twelfth century.
Rosamund Darcy, who is a niece OF
the eastern monarch, Salah-ed-din (Sal-
adm, and her two cousins, Goodwin and
Wulf, are surprised by body of armed
men, who desire to take Rosamund.
She escapes while the young men fight
the kidnappers. The latter mention
Sir Hugh LoZelle, an enemy OF the
D'Arcys. The brethren are wounded.
U.-Sir Andrew Darcy, father of
Rosamund, determines to knight his
nephews. III.-Godwin and Wolf are
knighted. Both are in love with Rosa
mund. They receive Sir Andrews
permission to ask Rosamund to choose
one of them. IV.-Rosamund tells
the brethren to wait two years for her
decision. Sir Andrew is visited by a
pilgrim with letter from Sal-ed-din.
The latter asks that Rosamund go to
Syria. He threatens to take her by
force if she will not go willingly. The
sultan has dreamed that through Rosa.
mund much bloodshed will be avoided.
V.-Rosamund refuses. Sir Andrew
tells the story of his marriage to the
sultan's sister, in the time of the war
in Syria. He was assisted to escape
from Syria by shiek named Al-je-bal,
whose signet ring Sir Andrew still has.
Wulf goes to buy wine from a stranded
merchant. VI.-At a feast the wine
merchant drugs Gudwin and Wulf and,
aided by banu of Saracens, tries to
seize Rosamund. He proclaims him
self the emjr Hassan, sent by Salah-ed-
din. Sir Andrew and Rosamund re-
sist. VII.-Sir Andrew is struck down
and Rosamund carried off. Goodwin
and Wulf awake to find their uncle dy-
ing ana their cousin gone. Before his
death Sir Andrew gives the brethren
Al-je-bals signet ring and tells them
to seek aid from him. VIII.-Godwin
and Wulf, known as Peter and John,
come to Buriut in search of Rosamund
There they are led to an inn by a
woman, Masouda, who befriends them.
They tell her their errand. Masouda
tells the brethren she knows their real
names and warns them not to 60 to AL
je-bal, who is also called Sinap. TX
Masouda aids the brethren to buy
horses and accompanies them on their
journey to Al-je-bal. Goodwin saves
her from lioness. X--On board Has
sans ship Rosamund finds Lozelle. He
offers to wed her and save her from the
Saracens. She refuses. Lozelle be-
trays Rosamund and Hassan to Allie
bal. XI-The brethren meet Al-je-bal,
the terrible chief of the assassins. XII
AT the court of Sinan the brethren
find Rosamund, whom they call their
sister. They quarrel with Lozelle and
dual Is arranged between him and
Wulf. Hassan has escaped to Salah-
ed-din. The brethren are forbidden to
leave Sinan's court, except under sane
tion of his signet ring. XIII-Sinan
wishes to wed Rosamund. Masouda
plans to escape from him with Rosa
mund and the brethren. Salah- ed-din
demands Rosamund from Sinan. who
refuses to give her up. IV-Wulf
Stays Lozelle in the dual and fees with
Goodwin to a rendezvous appointed by
Masouda. XV-Masouda escapes with
Rosamund by the aid of the brethrens'
signet ring, and the four go to Salah-
ed-din at Emesa XVl-Salah-ed-din
welcomes the brethren but warns them
not to try to rescue Rosamund from
him. XVII-Salah-ed-d delares war
against the Christians, and the breth-
rem leave his court, after saving his
life from the assassins.
1t was: "Behind me the Jordan and
the sea of Galilee. into which, IL my
tanks were turned, should be driven,
l and all my host. In front the terri
tories of the Franks, where 1 have no
friend, and by Nazareth their great
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 l am
lost. If they advance upon me round
the mountain Tabor and Ivy the wa
tered land. l may be lost. But if-oh,
Il Allah should make them mad, and
they should strike straight across the
desert, then-then they are lost, and
the reign of the cross in Syria is for
eyer at an end. -
Look! Near to the pavilion Of
adm stood another tent, closely guard
ed, and in it on a cushioned bed lay
two women. One was RoSamund, and
the other was Masouda
The last veil was withdrawn, and
now Goodwin saw n sight at which his
soul shiyered. A fire blackened plain
and above it a frowning mountain, and
that mountain thick. thick with dead,
thousands and thousands and thou
sands of dead, among which the n.y.
enas wandered and the night birds
screamed. He could see their faces;
many of them he knew again as those
of living men whom he had met in
Jerusalem and elsewhere or had noted
with the army.
Goodwin awoke from his dream trem-
bling, mounted his horse and rode back
tn Wulf.