The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23

Charles of Denmark and Ubald of the Adventures. to go in search of Rinaldo and bring him back to camp.
 Meantime the war ragged flercely around the towers of Jerusalem. Clorinda, jeal- ous of the fame which others had won resolved to make sally at night and burn the wooden tower which the Crusa- ders had erected close to the walls and from which they kept up constant fire of missiles upon the town. She succeeded in setting the tower on fire and then re- tired toward the gates of the city, close ly pressed by the Christians. As usual Clorinda kept her face to the enemy, re- , treating slowly and anxious to see that all her men were inside the gate before she entered herself. Tn the darkness of the night and the confusion of the con- f1ict the gates were shut before the va liant maiden warrior had entered She found herself alone outside the walls and confronting her Tancred.
 fierce single combat ensued between the two and the fair Clorinda fell, mor- ! tally wounded, beneath the sword of Tan cred. When Tancred found that he had killed the woman he madly loved he was beside himself with grief, and at tempted suicide. Only the calm, forceful words of Peter the Hermit could recall him to himself. And in the city, too, was there wild grief at the death of Clorin- da. For they knew that their most va liant champion was no more.
 Now, the two good knights, Charles and Ubald. had been told by Peter the Hermit that they should take the road to Ascalon and that, arriving at the mouth of the river, they would meet an old man who could tell them where to find Rinaldo. They obeyed orders; they met the old man. He took them to his habitation be- meath the bed of the river and told them the story of the wandering of Rinaldo. Armda had fallen in love with the cham pion and had arranged the delusion by which the foragers were induced to report that they had found Rinaldo's armor and his headless body. When Armida had freed her captives she had pretended to fly, but, in reality she had followed Rl- naldo over hill and dale, had finally caught him and made violent love to him. To make sure of her conquest she had carried him off by magic conveyance 10 an enchanted castle, which she had called into being upon the Peak of Teneriffe.
 The obliging old magician provided the two knights with guide and a magic boat in which they traversed the Medter- ranean and reached the Fortunate Isles beyond the Pillars of Hercules Armidas castle was most favorably situated to
 
 command a delightful mixture of moun- tain and seashore advantages-in short a most desirable al-the-year-round resi- dence. It were long to tell of the groves and gardens which surrounded it, of the temptations of the flesh and the senses which the knights had to steel themselves hideaus monsters which they had to over come or drive off with charms Furnished them by the old man of the river) before they could at length gain the castle itself and penetrate into it's courts.
 In the middle of the castle was a gar den and in the garden. his vows for gotten, his knighthood stained his senses steeped in sensuous delights. Rinaldo dallied on a bank of violets with Armida. The hidden Knights watched until Armidia left the court Every day she spent a few hours studying her books of magic and prac- ticing the muttering of her spells Now 1 1t was her study hour and she left Rinaldo alone. At once the knights ran into him, upbraided him for his defec tion, showed him, as in terror, what he had been and what he had become and begged him to shake off the spell of the sorceress and return with them to the siege of Jerusalem.
 Rinaldo's spirit returned, he called for armor and hurried with the rescu- ing knights to the waiting boat below the Peak. Armidia got wind of what was passing and pursued to the shore. She walled and commanded she wept | and entreated. She tried her magic But