The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-30

and I must lie here like a bedrid.
den monk!" exclaimed Ivannoe, while
the game that gives me freedom or
death is played out by the hands OF
others! Look from the window once
again, kind maiden, but beware that
you are not marked by the archers
me If they yet advance to the storm"
With patient courage Rebecca again
took post at the lattice.
What dost thou see, Rebecca?"
again demanded the wounded knight.
Nothing but the cloud Of arrows
flying so thick as to daze mine eyes,
and to hide the bowmen who shoot
them"
That cannot endure" said 1vanhoe:
"if they press not right on to carry the
castle by pure force Of arms, the arch
, cry may avail but little against stone
walls and bulwarks. Look for the
knight of the Fetterlock, fair Rebecca,
and see how he bears himself; for as
the leader is, so will his followers be-"
81 see him not" said Rebecca.
Foul craven!" exclaimed Ivanhoe;
docs he blench from the helm when
the wind blows highest"
HE benches not! He benches
mott" said Rebecca. II see him now;
he leads a body Of men close under
the outer barrier of the barbican.
They pull down the piles and pals.
| AIDES; they hew down the barriers with
| axes. His high plume floats abroad
| over the throng, like raven over the
| field Of the slain. They have made a
| breach in the barriers-they rush in
| they are thrust back! Front-de-Boeuf
heads the defenders; I see his gigantic
! form above the press. They throng
again to the breach, and the pass is
disputed hand to hand, and man to
of two fierce tides-the conflict of two
oceans moved by adverse winds!"
| She turned her head from the lattice
as if unable longer to endure a sight
SO terrible.
Look forth again, Rebecca," said
Ivanhoe, mistaking the cause Of her
retiring; the archery must in some
degree have ceased, since they are
now fighting hand to hand. Look
again, there is now less danger"
Rebecca again looked forth, and al
most Immediately exclaimed: Holy
prophets of the law! Front.de-Boeuf
and the Black knight fight hand to
hand on the breach, amid the roar Of
| their followers, who watch the prog
ress of the strife. Heaven strike with
the cause of the oppressed and the
captive!" She then uttered a loud
shrek, and exclaimed, "He Is down
he is down."
"Who Is down." cried Ivanhoe; "for
our dear lady's sake, tell me which
has fallen?"
THE Black knight" answerer Re-
becca family; then instantly again
shouted with eagreness: But no-but
no! The name of the Lord OF Hosts
be blessed He is on foot again, and
fights as If there were twenty men
| strength in his single arm! His
sword is broken; he snatches an axe
from yeoman; he pushes Front-de-
Boeuf with blow on blow-the giant
stoops and totters like an oak under
the steel of the woodman. He falls
he falls! The Black Knight
approaches the postern with his huge
axe-the laundering blows which he
deals-you may hear them above all
the din and shouts of the battle. The
stones and beams are hailed down on
the bold champion; he regards them
no more than if they were thistledown
or feathers!"
"By Saint John of Acre" said Ivan
hoe, raising himself joyfully on his
couch, "methought there was but one
man in England that might do such a
deed"
Ivanhoe was right; the Black
Knight Of the Fetterlock was Richard
Plantaganet of the Lion Heart, King
of England. only just returned to his
kingdom from the Holy Land, though
but few knew Of his arrival as yet
5 In his absence England had been I'm
!, der the selfish rule of the Kings
younger brother John, who was plan
ming to usurp the kingdom.
The great story teller gathers hi:
= characters together at the tournamen
y of Ashby. There come for the sports
of chivalry Rowena, heiress of Saxo,
< rulers now dispossessed by the Nor
2 mans, accompanied by her sturd.
uncle Cedric; Rebecca, beautiful Jew
ish maiden, whose fate is constantly
joied with that of Ivanhoe, disinherit
: ed son Of Cedric, a father who will
! have naught to do with Saxon sol
p who is willing to accept the Norman
and their ways, and even to be a de
d vout follower of Richard the King
3 Isaac Of York, Rebecca's father, wan
!. dering Jew of vast wealth, who i
constantly the prey Of the ruthless
l. Norman mobiles who would wiring hi
e riches from him by torture and i'm
4 prisonment; Robin Hood and his mel
. ry men of the forest glades, not forget
ting the redoutable Friar Tuck. equal
: ly adept in the ways Of the clerk, tn
t yeoman, or the roisterer. To then
Z are added of Norman stock the redout
:. able Front-de-Boeuf, Brian. de Bots
y Guilbert, the Prior of Jorvaulx, an
y Prince John; Athelstane. Saxon lord
|. destined by Cedric for the hand o
-. Rowena; Gurth the swine-herd, an,
Wanda the Jester; and the mysteriou
! Black Prince. who. like Ivanhoe. make