The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

1 and timid. although brought up to see
 every one around her bow to her slight 1 est wish she had acquired haughtiness 1 and great firmness of demeanor This | now deserted her in her need. She be- | came all woman and all tears and more
 moved De Bracy than al lher previous l pride. He paced the chamber in agitation
 almost as great as that of Rowena.
 But just then a bugle, sharply blown
 three times before the castle gate, gave
 warning of some impending event of the
 first importance, and De Bracy left ,he
 chamber to see what 1t might portend
 The. same bugle blast interrupted the ln-
 terview between the Templar and Re
 becca The beautiful Jewess was east
 in sterner mold than Rowena and ner l peril also was greater. When De Bos- | Guilbert had approached her she had 1 heaped scorn and defiance on him. and
 then, springng to the parapet which en- | circled q small ledge outside the turret
 she swore she would throw herself down l from the dizzy height If her persecutor made one more step in her direction Re- | beccas manner toward the Templar only | served to inflame his passion further, and | when he left her at the sound of tho
 bugle 1t was with q still fiercer desire To possess her.
 In the torture dungeon of the castle IIpnl-ut- -DDeul WAS dDOnl lO give DIutf5 l to his attendants to stretch Isaac on the l iron grill above a bed of live coals, when 1 messenger came to him reporting tho l bugle blasts and also that the warders
 on the walls reported that the castle was | surrounded by a large and apparently | hostile band.
 | The bugle which had thus interrupted l the Norman chiefs was indeed blown ii 1 defiance When the train of Cedric had | | had been recognized and seized by order
 of Cedric at Ashby, and Wamba the jes- i ter, had escaped into the copse, where | they had been confronted by a man clad 1 in Lincoln green. He spoke with the | voice of authority and they recognized | him as an archer calling himself Locks- | ley, who had won the prize at the butts l in the trial of skill with the long bow | which followed the tournament. In real l ity he was the celebrated Robin Hood | When he found that Front t-de- Boeuf' $ party had disguised themselves as mem 1 bers of his outlaw band. he swore that | none but himself should take toll in Sher- | wood and, as he was Saxon, no Norman 1 within his woods should capture with inl- | punity the noble Cedric Hastily sending l out his two attendants to summon his 1 band, he himself repaired to the cell of l the holy clerk of Copmanhurst. an anch- i orite who has gone down to history as i Friar Tuck, to summon that doughty 1 fighter to bear his part in the contest which was toward.
 ] As Robin Hood came to the lonely hut ] where lyeG the clerk, he was surprised l to hear sounds of revelry proceeding | from it. Knocking loudly at the door 1t | opened to discover the Black Knight of l the tournament with a fagon to his lips l from which he qunffed between the slaves of rollicking song. The Black Knight. tourneying toward York, had sought shelter for the night In the cell Of the l stout anchorite and he and Frlar Tuck | being hall fellows well met and two of :! a kind, had made a night of it.
 Robin Hood was disconcerted at first by the presence of the knight. but recog- nlzing him as the man who had decided | the victory for the English against the Normans in the lists of Ashby, he ao- 1 cepted his offer to serve as volunteer fin the expedition. And so it happened l that the merry men of Sherwood, to- ' gether with considerable body of Saxon peasants assembled by Curtin and Wam- ba. now besieged Torquilstone.
 ] In response to the bugle call the sen- 1 eshal of the hold sought the outer wall l and A summons to surrender the prson- CTS was handed him. It was signed. as If I by way of insult. by the marks of Curtin ! and Wamba. In reply the Norman chiefs ! sent back word that If the besiegers mad priest in their ranks they would better send him into the castle to give the last