The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-18


reward except the "devoir" itself, never.
! in many cases, even hearing the sound of
/ her voice or being admitted TO her
presence. He chose his lady as the marin
! er chooses his pilot star, as guide
/ and a light upon dark waters and not as
a goal to be attained. And many lance
had the knight of the Couchant Leopard
broken for Edith Plantagenet and proud
ly had he made her colors fiaunt in the
van of battle.
This Scottish knight had joined the Cru
SADIE on it's way to Palestine with a small
train and placed himself under the banner
of England, but battle and disease had
reduced his followers to one poor esquire.
| Upon his return from Engaddi the knight
J found his squire lying i'll Of the fever in
the rude hut which served Kenneth and
j his attendant for habitation in the midst
, of a deserted section of the camp which
had been assigned to the knight of the
Leopard and his followers when the
Christian army first pitched its tents in
the present location. Besides the sick
| squire, the knight had as companion
his faithful hound Roswal, whose f1eetness
! of foot in the chase was the means of
providing many meal for the other oc-
! cupants of the hut.
! At a considerable distance away in a
! great pavilion, whose interior was orna-
i mented with skins and other trophies of
J the chase and with weapons and armor
King Richard stretched his limbs, now
wasted by fever upon his couch of ILL
ness, attended by Thomas de Vaux, Lord
of Gilsland Tom of the ellis, as the
Northumbrian was generally called Fear
Of contagion had kept many who should
have attended upon him away from the
royal patient. and his own orders had e&-
cluded from his sick room his Queen, Ber-
engaria.
1t was indeed a fractions and rebellious
! patient which the stout and war-worn lord
of the ellis had in Richard Occur de Leon,
who fretted at the truce the princess had
declared, at the illness which prevented
him from DOMINIC his armor and shouting
his battle cry, even at the necessary at
tentions which his blunt but kindly nurse
forced upon him.
"Ha," cried the King, land is this the
of Christian chivalry lying in her Lacquer;
planted palisades to defend them instead
of rushing spears, truce where there
should be war. vows forgotten, faith for
sworn? And I lie here like a sick and
NANCY lion while that drunken boar of
! Austria, that sly fox of France, that
dark demon of Templar and that popin-
jay of Marquese plot who knows what
| treachery and disaster to the Holy Cause?
] Ha! Bring me my armor. Richard of
| England will show these faint hearts"
! But the stout Sir Thomas gently yet with
the exertion of a considerable amount of
strength, forced Richard back upon the
couch from which he had sprung and re-
placed over his arms and breast the
coverings he had thrown off in his anger.
Just then came burst of wild barbaric
| music, the sound of atabals and cymbals.
| "St. George cried Richard, what
sounds are those? The Saracens are al
Gsland-armor and my sword" But Sir
Thomas again forced his patient back
upon the couch with a pressure which the
King would have endured from no one
but Tom of the ellis. Thou art a rough
| nurse but faithful one, Tom, said the
| monarch Go thou and bring me word
| Of the meaning of that music"
The visitor to the camp whose entrance
, had been accompanied by the strains of
| barbaric music was the learned leech-
| Adonbec ell Hakin, Moorish physician
sent by the Sedan Saladin that he might
cure Richard of his Illness and, as the
i, Iatf ~.
we may bring this controversy between
us to an end, either by honorable agree
ment or by trial of our weapons5in fair
field. Truly this Saladin is gallant
inhde," said Richard, land IL 'twere not
for his being cursed and unbelieving
dog of the prophet who burns in Tophet
know of no one upon whose shoulder I