The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-04-21

Rosamund Darcy. who is a niece OF
the eastern monarch. Salah-ed-dln Sal
adm. and her two cousins, Goodwin and
Wulf, are surprised by a 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.
There Is lite more to tell said
Sir Andrew. You Will remember,
nephews. that | was against this ride
of Rosamund'S TO seek flowers, or
know not what. at St. Peters shrine,
nine miles away. but as the maid had
set her heart on it, and there are but
few pleasures here, why. let her &c
with the pair of you for escort That
morning l had been thinking Of ST.
Hugh Lozelle-if such false. pirate
rogue can be called a knight: not but
that he is stout and brave enouch-and
his threats after he recovered from the
wound you gave him. Goodwin; how
that he would come back and take
your cOuSiu IOl all We SoHINA NC ~ Nt>ts
him. True, we heard that lie had sal
cd for the east to war against Saladin
or with him, for lie was ever Il traitor
but even if this were SO. men return
from the east. Therefore | babe you
arm, having some fores. CHIT o. what
was to come, for doubtless this on
slaught must have been planned by
him
II think So" said Wulf. for, as RoS-
amund here knows. the tail knave
who interpreted for the foreigner whom
he called his master gave Us the name
of the knight Lozelle as the man who
sought to carry her of.
WAS this master a Saracen?" asked
Sir andrew anxi0usiy.
Nay, uncle; how can | tell. seeing
that his face was masked like the rest
and he spoke through an interpreter?
But | pray you so on with the story,
which Goodwin has not heard
1t is short When RoSamund told
her tale | got together what men |
could Then. bidding her stay behind.
with some of them to guard her, ana
nurse herself, which she was loath TO
do, set out TO find you or your bodies
1t was dark. but we rode hard, having
lanterns with US, as we went rousing
men at every stead, until we came to
where the roads join at Meats. There
we found black horse-your horse,
Godwin-sO badly wounded that he
could travel no farther. and l gfoaned,
thinking that you were dead. Still we
went on till we heard another horse
whinny and presently found the roam
standing by the path side with his
head down.
"A man on the ground holds him"
cried one. and | sprang from the saddle
to see who it might be, to find that ii
was you, the pair of you, locked i'll each
others arms and Senseless, if not dead.
as well you might be from youl
wounds. | babe the country folk cover
you up and carry you home and others
to run to Stangate and pray the prior
and the monk Stephen, who Is doctor,
come at once to tend you, while we
pressed onward to take vengeance If
IL.
the creek, but there we found nothing
save some blood stains and-thiS is
strange-your sword. Goodwin. the hi!t
set between two stones and on the point
q writing
What was the writing:" asked God
win.
Here it is answered his uncle,
drawing a piece of parchment from his
robe. Read it, one of you, since all
of you are scholars and my eyes are
bad"
ROsamund took it and read what was
written. hurriedly, but in a clerkly
hand. and in the French tongue. 1t
ran thus:
The sword of brave man. Bury 1t
with him if he be dead and give it back
to him if he lives, as | hope. My master
would wish me TO do this honor to a gall
liant foe whom in that case he still may
meet. HUGH LOZELLE, or another.
Another, then; not Hugh LoZelle,"
said Goodwin, "since he cannot write,
and if he could would never pen words
so knightly."
'The words may be knightly, but the
writer's deeds were base enough" re-
piled Sir Andrew; nor, in truth, do
understand this scroll"
1.-THE interpreter spoke of the short
man as his master" suggested Wulf.
AYE, nephew, but him you met.
This writing speaks of master whom
Goodwin may meet and who would wish
the writer to pay him a certain honor"
Perhaps he wrote thus to blinI u.s.
"Perchance. perchance. The matter
puzzles me-
We'll" said Wulf. "at the least we