Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-15

ifi IGT' NiieU. |bhpSs and her nuns rose aEd bowed ! her, while one offered her the chair
 Ii state that was set apart to l'e nsea ! the bishop i'll his visitations. "Nay." said the queen, mock ae , nth no honorable seat who come iiess
 s hunshle suppliant.
 So down she went upon the mGhie GOT with all her ladies ani tI1e follow
 hg women. Whiie tie se.2AA S.traea1t3
 Doked at her wondering and the knights and nosjies mAssed themselves
 ehind.
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 For 8 moment Rosar1nnd 1'."-.- bale, then spoke in q steady Voi04.: Say what service car my pooi :t' be to you. 0 queen. and by when r. FoughI:.
 Thrice Syblla strove to answer. an. bt last nurIpurel:
 T cannot. Let the envoys give llp5 the letter. if she is able to reed the.r fongue'
 T am able,'' answered Rosamund. and Saracen emir drew forth a roll and laid it against his forehead, then gave it to the abbess, who brought t to Rosamund. With her dagger blade she cut it's silk. opened it and read aloud, always in the same quiet voice, as she read:
 In the name of Allah the one, the all merc1ful, to my niece, aforetime the Prln' cess Of Baalbec, Rosamund Darcy by name now fugitive hidden in a convent sAAS HAoLAo III AIlC CIly SA-AA 0No A~SA> sheriff, the holy city of Jerusalem:
 Niece-Al my promises to you l have performed, and more, since for your sake ! spared the lives of your cousins, the swln Knights. But you have repaid me Wath ingratitude and trickery. after the manner of those of your false and accurs' eo faith, and have fled from me. prom !sed you also, again and yet again. that ' you attempted this thing death should 70 your portion. No longer, therefore. are you the Princess of .Baalbec, but only ar sscaped Christian slave and az such doom so to die whenever my sword reaches you.
 Of my vision concerning you, which caused me to bring you to the east frolr england, you know well. Repeat 1t 1T your heart before you answer. Tha vision told me that by your nobleness an6 sacrifice you should save the lives o1 many l demanded that you should bt brought back to me, and the request was .'efused-why, it matters not. Now l un uerstand the reason-that this was SC ordalned. l demand no more that force saould be used to you. I demand that you saali come of your own free will to sui Ter the bitter and shameful reward o! your sin, or, if you so desire. bide where !oo are Of your own free will and DC uealt with as Cod shall decree.
 This hangs upon your judgment: If vol some and ask it of me, l will consider me question of the sparing of Jerusalem ana it's inhabitants. If you refuse tt .come l will certainly put every one ol lnem to the sword, save such of the women and children as may be kept fol AiaVes. Decide, then, niece. and quickly whether you will return with my envoys VI blde where they find you.
 YUSUF SALAH-ED-DlN.
 Rosamund finished reading, and tho letter futtered from her hand down tt ne marble floor. Then the queen said Lady, we ask this sacrifice of you (n the name of these and all their iei |0ws." And she pointed to the womef