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I tihink that ye might gain i!. yond. Then on to the pri-e', andi tel hinn how we fare." -iut, my fair lord, hw an we hop' to reach the borses ' asked, Noriury. "Ye cannot go round to thiem, for they would be upon ye vre ye couldi could (o4t to them. Think y. thn: ye have heiart enough to claluber down this cliff" "Had we but a rope. "There is one here. It is but one hun (r(d feet lon1, a-Il for bhe rest ye must trust to God and to y.ur lingers. Can you try it, Allyne?'I "With all my heart, my dear lord, but how can I leave you In such a strait?' "Nay, It is to serve me that ye go. And you, Norbury' The silent squire said nothing, but he took up the rope, and, havIng examined it, he tied one end irinly round a project ing rock. Then be east off his breast plare, thigh pieces, and greaves, while Al leyne followed his example. "Tell Chandos, or Calverley, or Knoiles, shouild the prince have gone forward," cried Sir Nigel. "Now may God speed ye, for ye are brave and worthy men." It was. indeed, a task which might make the heart of the bravest sink within him. The thin cord dangling down the face of the brown cliff seemed from above to reach little more than half-way down It. Beyond stretched the rugged rock, wet and shining, with a green tuft here and there thrusting out from it, but little sign of ridue or foothold. Far below the jagged points of the boulders bristled up, dark and menacing. Norbury tugged thrice with all his strength upon the cord, and then lowered himself over the edge, while a hundred anxious faces peered over at him as he sliowly clambered downwards to the end of the rope. Twice he stretched out his foot, and twice he failed to reach the point at whieh he aimed, but even as he swung himself for a third effort a stone from a sling buzzed like a wasp from amid the rocks and struck him full upon the side of his head. His grasp relaxed, his feet slipped, and In an instant be was a (-rushed and mangled corpse upon the sharp ridges beneath him. "If I have no better fortune," said Al leyne, leading Sir Nigel aside. "I pray you, my dear lord, that you will give my hiumble service to the Ladj Maude, and say to her that I was ever her true servant and most unworthy cavalier." The old knight said no word. but he put a hand on either shoulder, and kissed his squire, with the tears shining in his eyes. Alleyne sprang to the rope, and sliding swiftly down. soon found himself at Its extremity. Front above It seemed as though rope and cliff were well-nigh touch ing, but now, when swinging a hundred feet down, the squire found that he could scarce reach the face of the rock with his foot, and that it was as smooth as glass. with no resting-place where a mouse could stand. Some three feet lower, however, his eye lit upon a long jagged crack which slanted downwards, and this he riust reach if he would save not only his own poor life, but that of the eight-score men above him. Yet it were r'adness to spring for that narrow slit wi . nought but the wet, smooth rock to cling to. He swung for a moment, full of thought, and even as he hung there another of the hellish stones sang through his curls, and struck a clip from the face of the cliff. Up he clambered a few feet. drew up the loose end after him, enslung his belt, held on with Unee and with elbow while he spliced the long tough leathern belt to the eud of the cord: then lowering himself as far as he could go, he swung baf'.;vards and forwards un til his hand rea :ied the crack, then he left the rope and clung to the face of the cliff. Another stone struck him on the side, and he heard a sound like a breaking stick, with a keen stabbing pain which shot through his chest. Yet it was no time now to think of pain or ache. There was his lord and his eight-score coamrades, and they must be plucked from the jaws of death. On he clambered, with his hand shuffling down the long sloping crack, some times bearing all his weight upon his armas, at others finding sonie small shelf or tuft on which to rest his foot. Would he never pass over that fifty feet? He dared not look down, and could but grope slowly onwards, his Lace to the cliff, his fingers clutching, his feet scraping and feeling for a support. Every vein and crack and mottling of that face of rock remained forev'er stamped upon his memory. At last, however, his foot came upon a broad resting-place and he ventured to cast a glance downwards. Thank God! he had reached the highest of those fatal pinnacles upon which his comrade had fallen. Quickly now' he sprank from rock to rock until his feet were on the ground. and he had his hand stretched out for the horse's rein, wvhen a sling-stone struck him on the head, and he dropped senseless upon the ground. An evil blow It was for Alleyne, but a worse one still for him who struck it. The Spanish slinger, seeing the youth he '-laIn, and judging from his dre'ss that he was no common man, rushed forward to lulnder him, knowing vw"ll that the bow :aen above him had expended their last shaft. He was still three paces, however, from his victim's side wiwa Z'ohn upon the cliff above plucked up a lhugo boulder, and, poising It for an i:nstant, dropped It with fatal aim upon the slinger beneath him. It stuck upon his sboulder, and hurled him, crushing andy g~.reamting, to the ground, while Alleyne, recalled to his senses by these shrill c'ries in his very ear, staggered on to his feet, and gazed wvildly about him. His eyes fell upon the horses, grazing upon the scanty pasture, :tnd in an instant all had conme back to him-his mission, his comrades, the need for haste. He wvas dizzy, sick, famnt, but he must not die, and he must not tarry, for his life meant many lives that day. In an instant he was in his saddle -'nd sprung down the valley. Loud ratn" the swift charger's hoofs over rock and reef, while the lire flew from the stroke of iron, and the loose stones showered up behimd him. But his head was whirling round, the blood was gushing from his brow, his temple, his mouth. Ever keener and sharper was the deadly pain which shot like red-hot arrow ..hroup his side. He felt that his eye was glazing, hIs senses slipping from him. his grasp upon the reins relaxing. Then with one mighty effort, lhe called up all hIs strength for a smnge minute. Stooping down, lhe loosened thme stirrup-straps, bound his knees tightly to his saddle flaps, twisted his hands in the bridle, and then. putting the gallatnt horse's head for the mounitaini path, he dashed the spurs in and fell forwvard faint ing with his face buried in the coarse, black mane. T~ttle could be ever rensember of that wild rhde. Half c'onscious, but ever with the one thought beating in his mind, lie goaded the horse onwards, rushing swift lv down steep ravines, over huge boulders, along the "dges of black abysses. Dinm memories he had of beetling cliffs, of a grotup of huts with wondering faces at the doors, of foamiug, elatterinlg water, atnd of a bristle of mountain beeches5. Once. 're he had ridden far, he heard behind inm three deep, scen shouts, which told him that his comrades had set their faces to the foe on1ce rore. Then all wvas blank, until he woke to find kindly blue English eves pec:'ing down upon him and to hear the blessed sound of his countryr's speech. They were but a foraging party-a hun dred archers and as many men at-arms but their leader was Sir Hugh Calverley, and he was not a man to bide idle when good blowvs were to be had not three leagues from him. A scout was sent fiy ing with a message to the camp, and Sir Hugh, with his two hundred mena, thun dered off to the rescue. With them went Alleyne, still bound to his saddle, still drippinig with blood, and swooning and recovering. andl swooninig once again. On they rode, and on. until, at last, topping a ridge, they looked down upon the fate ful valley. Alas!I and alas! ''or the sight that met their eyes. There, beneatth them. was the blood bathed lill, anid from the highest pinnacle there flaunted the yellow and white ban ner with the lions and the towers of the (A 50) .,.:-'f Ca~~. 1 h m ed,!y :::9t ir~l :c uid :!w e e -I s114 y .111: AN, t N%,:e c g 2 p' s.ciio. to showi thaet :ile re-ci~lt w not vcot at :1n 4:1!. At te ...t a L--:ri if rage andl of d1p1' wncit uep fr hIli hafflted rec es n .sijarrin:! on -, ' hersis, they ela iertei I dlIn "i 111Z :e1 inint iath which 1-11 t1 the valcy bI :-ath1. Iut I hey wONre toe 1:ite 1I aevitncL, as they had beeni itpt' he I" s:v. Ln,11- et they could g:in Ile 1eivel groumd, tI-he Span iards, seeig I leni ridin eg swiftly ameclid Ihe rocks. :111d b eg igwcranit: of their nmuihtrs, drew iff fromi the c:iptur el hill, and. ha vin:: setured their fw pris olers. tred' slowly inl a long clon, with drumta-bceat ing anl cymbal-elashin;, out of the valley. Their rear ranks were tial reinly paessin:: <mt if sight ere the neew com -rs were nrcing their paatit;g, fo:ixi iig horses up the slo pe,( ihh had b wen the scene of that loig-drawn and ikoly fight. Axed a fearsomte sight it was that met their eyes! Across the louwer viil lay tilm' dense heap of i.n xand horses where tle first arrow-stori had burst. Above. the bodies of the dead and the dying-French, Spanxish. :n] Argonese-liy thick and thieker, until they covered the cold ground two and threc deep in one dreadful tangle of slaughter. Above them lay the Englishmen In their lines, even as they had stood, and higher yet upon the plateau a wild medley of the dead of all nations, where the last deadly grapple had left them. In the further corner, under the shadow of a great rock, there crouched seven bowmen, with great John in the een tre of then-all wounded, weary, and in sorry case, but still unconquered, with their blood-stainied weapons wavimg and their veices rin;ging a welcome tu their countryneen. Alleyne rode aeross to John, while Sir Hugh Calverley followed close behind him. "By S:it Ceorge!" cried Sir Hugh, "I have never seen signs of so stern a fight, and I am right glad that we have been In time to save you. "You have saved more than us," said John, pointing to the banner which leaned against thee rock behind him. "You have done nobly," cried the old free companion, gazing with a soldier's ailniration at the huge frame -and bold face of the archer. "But why is it, my good fellow, that you sit upon this man.' --Bv the rood! I had forgot him," John answ'ered. rising and dragging from under hin no less a person than the Spanish Caballero. Don Diego Alvarez. "Tis an, nmy fair lord, nians to me a new house, ten cows, one bull-if it lie but a little one-a grindstone, ancd I know not what besides, so that I thought it well to sit upoi Iie, lest he should take a fancy to leave Iak." "Tell mee, John." cried Alleyne faintly, "where is my dear lord, Sir Nigel Lor ing'" "He is dead, I fear. I saw thetm throwi' his body across a horse and ride away witlh it, but I fear the life had gone from him." ''h wo orhme Ad hrei Al -ylward? "H spaguo rid~"erlesshors - m -oeatrSr7 ie>osvehm a las tus thtw Ia e hs pn "w are oth Whiee ACompany, msy Alotrd,'' sad J h . 'i "Nyc sthen Witel aCompnnyes hore das-et >nded,''e anwdSir Hugt syhlemnly st themtrng around him tdhe Iins ofitetr takgres Loioxi. bae qirfo "Blor he bullneve' re Sir sugrs, tga." inbow CIIAPTERhac t XVII. nal(r ir daytIert that alufiyhte the Spate a- 1 hersca Te sI wasl yelo inv the ha-x my and aterd-w.todi h og "hdW afrte ofmh, Whien Company, and "Nay, wth Whet Cmany eys her dis baded," whosweed Spurrigh st ownthey I ookng rwhiterod hich a fe dipe and curved figres "back tohr the liowersquire piin Ifa the illrs neve wse theunun reful nd gair, ldielaa d u lt"n oe hwahs aciv andgh welo-nit fiure mnHe C rane wThe ipus vpetssedi indh hnxous are, ad the redhohastuch ce thpongs niedo on thals, he wis n tecu ni horasen h drerte sparint on thur lonh wiered wupon hiphedls urocaied ah(s knieehthd thileet-tope hilearuol tis oldrown aocaf uo his templeeave Ofteancerst comrad yoasg afle, dhanderd man uplon doulet black horse, 1 ithf hugeBr auas bloth whinh feromd his sdde-ow. acie band, brow-ni fgue las I o'ed wit lip conirlsi and he loke faoela frmse ho hsid much caresuo whehi inkd. Yonas he wth delight peaell aniwat Jhr dressote, foriwas hoee spt ack nhis kngtived waphie, ad e not upon I is rwaide tosan hrows ample ge iainlygrct his re w ttoe alel dashlce re-hmeade::a supoe ao get Sir horlen i dithson hthe yunv g seman fom Mi-s head lay kcnitled byeh tehe lwod o heowlyafokt Prinde tohimself with ('estwhich I ytekwol armyson withoneli ht Well igh oftheolirs for Enwa 'notd. For his nat sandothe Cmn haille do Dte iego' five thruhouan Crsteo wraieg -aerans hbravedeed ofe abm oved ands le onos hadt: sfie inuo theSi fevawh I mdcsrvie te yortwo oenthf Allm- i tea. ha ktirtcc icynthnie. swrh of1 .:: ;:;:l .tr I:I:ln and a ela:nly life w poni his side, and he awke . ..: I!,-11d-liriui to fin that Ihe war I;.:: -s aniards anid their i,, on eriushed at Navaretta, I,-prin,- h ihi:nself heard the .1!r. o hs r :n-or and had ct(ome to ttch hIiis sho1l h-r vi Ii 1 w..rl i:no to insure that so Ara1 4 t !,a n1an shoul die, if he bnt live, wi!hin the order of chival -Y. The. instanit thatt he vould st- foolt to rund yn.- h:id1 startedl in soarci of is lord, 1nt no word Iu i.ldl he h'ar of :, d: l or I - live. :111d h had comail Ie home 10w sad-hearted, in the hope of raising money upon his estates and so starting ?Jp4,n his 411est4 onice more. Lanlding4 at lindon, he had hurried on with a mind fiill (if care, for he had he:ird no word roii Hal~inishlire sinfe ithe short note which 1lA ainnionniieed his brother's de-ath. "BY the r0od!" crie'd J olin, looking irotnd him exultantly, "where have we 0en sin1"e wte left such noble Cows, Such leecy shiep, grass s# green, or a man so lrunk as yonder rogi- .who lies in the gap if the hledger' "Ahi, Jolil, Alleyne answerel wearily, "it Is well for y.I., but I never thought hat my hom'-co;Jing would It so sad a .ne. My leart is heavy for my dear ord and for Aylward, and I know not low I may break the news to the L:i'ly 11ary and to the Lady Maude, if they iave not yet had tidings of it." John gave a groan which made tho iorses shy. "It is indeed a bh-k husi ess," said he. "But he not sad, for I ;hall give half these crowns to my old nother, and half wi1ll I add to the money ahich you niy have. aind so we shall buy hat yellow cog wherein we sailed to (ordeaux, and in it we shall go forth oid seek Sir Niurl." Alleyne smiled, bit shook his head. "'Were lie alive we should have had word f him ere now," said he, "But what is :his town before us'' "Why, it is Romzisey!" cried John. "See the tower of the old ;ray church, tnd the long stretch of the nuinery." Ere Alleyne could answer there swung ouid the curve of the road a lady's car -lage drawn by three horses abreast with L postilion upon the outer one. Within here sat a stout and elderly lady in a Ink cotehardie, leaning back aniong a die of cushions. None could seem nore nfe and secure and at her case than :his lady, and yet here also was a syn >ol of human life, for in an Instant, wen as Alleyne reIned aside to let the :arriage pass, a wheel !'w out from inong its fello'ws, and over it toppled vith the horses plunging, the postilion :aouting, and the lady screaini g from vithin. In an instant Alleyne and John vere on foot, and had lifted her forth all "a h d, m yf a sode' duhe, sh/ d /d adm er ee osott rav man. "W Ir /nedfeh fc pi, all butwosefo thoewh.id e r a hakewth star, buintl thscelwrse orn how tishatcldy? "Ih trst tat you amselo takese noahrts, naysae ano ino athunnery. Aak Taid froldevn to Itch entl ands o! leas mo re, asne mayl aily toewai at atmysel aNunner'se dhter,"u he ad-t el "pondhe nacear eer sheows made tor a 'fe are ndeedo fecshtr. Sin,"o From genpeai, ha of Ab Itd ofs men Iald sorry thin hteCop any shrold "Suely I soo,cri hothfo thomres.h "Hl, fthe woso the weaerof lide he mdews hahvoe hant nonei f te Com ,any bah lot alle, andiso prue war."sh .'Andhwh htldy' Sit iseath youn dasto thesMue pars "nd se:e nd in a nunnery ADidk senoh tt ofic sher wasthe' fdiet o:t moe hear?" oldaid owata "He Nunrytseher put the siig. ifnd notfor th oister oDnhido qrentle sir, hav ear bdy wo has alde "he Whie bCkoupany oer wod. "Sfintrel s'dcrie andh the comrdwn "Her roather as thn ledeof t, andas er i oer steed cundter him.a qie Great had boee thtno reon ofi the gobeath nuns ite the Lady Maude Lor ''I is, lrai e ad isiotto thirore -" ase not inl ahl nunry heids hen the otdoknghto with fatrms adetief "Herh fher:ou" crinedt the great smlnun 'Nays ofathe ;iun agod auge, nuwhI hn had wonurs th young godn-hiedt mcrturn her bacpo the world,"tors "Adr bustdharune talihe! ried and elfu noshetr thdde, andurseb. Adnown ..f,. was she cottsol cmil aiheirbess :13:! i:.r s;':io:' I::1l hn.! t r w i t, t MIS bilt Iii: .l1 lI I ine' ponip and show shoubl mark The ::ta occasion. But al:as: for l"ts and li:ts whein love and youth and naturw, nd ahio lr all, for nnae ae arr:iyetl against themn. Who is this travel-staliwd youth who dares to ride so madly through the lines of staring burghers? Why does he fling hilSo-!f from his horse and stare so strangely about h10m? See how he has rushed through the incense-bearers, thrust aside lay-sister Agata, scattered the two-and twenty daimiostels who sa;go swely :1.d he stands before the novice with his hands outstretched, and his face shin ing, and the light of love in his gray eyes. Her foot is on the very lintel of the church, and yet he hars the way -and she, she thinks 1o more of the wise words rad holy rede of the lidy aibless, bit she hath givenl a sobiing cry and1 hath fallen forward with his arms around her droop ing body and her wet cheek upon his breast. A sorry sight this for the gaunt abbess, ani ill lesson too for the stainless two-and-twenty who have ever been taught that the way of nature is the wily of sill. But Maude and Alleyne cared Uttle for this. A dank, cold air comevs it frIom' the black arch Iefore !1!hem. With out, the sun shilles bright and the birds are singing amnid the Ivy o3 the drooping heeciles. Their choice is mllade, and they turn away handll-lii-lianl, with their hacks to the darkness and their faces to the light. 1 0 0 * Very quiet was the wedding In the old priory church at Christehurch. where Father Christopher readl the service. and there were few to see save Lady Loring and John, and 1 dozen bowmen from the castle. The Lady of Twynhin had droop ed an1d pine1d for weary iiths, so that her fale was harsher and less coielv than before, yet she still hopel ol, for her lord had conl thsrough so ininy dangers that she could serce believe that he might be stricken down at hist. It had been her wish to start for S.pali and to search for him, but Alleyne persuaded her to let him go in her place. There was Iruch to look after, now that the 1:11111s of Minstead were joined to those of Twyn baiii, and Alleyne lad promised her that If she would but bide with his wife he would never come back to lailpshire again unitil he had gained some news, good or Ill of her lord and lover. The yellow cog had been engaged, with Goodwin Hawtaylic in commnild. 11n1d a ionth after the wedding Alleyne rode down to Bucklershard to see If she had conie round yet fron Southaipton. Oil the way lie passed the ltshing village of itt's Deep, and marked that a lIttlv reyer or brig was tackling off the land, :is though about to anchor there. Oil his way back, as lie rode towards tile vil lage, lie saw that she had indeed ancholred, ..:Il that nUlly boatts were round her, blaring cargo to the shore. A bo-shot from Pitt's Deep there was I 1nn a little back from the road. very large aitd wide-spread, with a great green 11s 1111:1g upon a pole from one of the upper windows. At this window. he markedlllL', as he role up, that a m1an was Seated who appeared to lie craning his neck ill his direction. Alleyne was still lookln-g up to him., when a woman cane rushing froin the open door of the inn, nil mnale as though she would climb a tree, lookin:g back the while with a laughlig fa'e. Wondering what these doings mlight m:ean, Alleyne tied his horse and was walking anild the trees toward the Inn, wh'n there shot from th' entram-e a see* ond woman who 3lnlde also for the tree. Close at her heels came a hurly. brown faced mail, who leaned against the dolor post and laughed loudly with his 11:11111 to his side. "Ah, ma belles!" lie cried, and is it thus you treat ie? Ah, ma petites! I swear by these fingerhones that I would riot hurt a hair of your pret ty heads; but I have been aIolng the black paynii, and, by my hilt! It does me good to look at your English cheeks. Come, drink a stoup of niiscadine with 311, fles enge's, for my heart Is warm to ie among ye again." At the sight of the man, Alleyne had tood staring, but at the sound of his 'oice such a thrill of joy hlubbled up In his heart that he had to bite his lips to eep himself fromi shioutinug outright. But deeper pleasure yet was in store. Ev'en s he ooked, the windowv abiove wa1s pshed outwards, and the voice of the mian ~tom he and seen there canme out fronm it. "Aylward,-' cried] tile voice, "I have 1en just now a very wolrthy person come own the road, though my eyes couldl Searce discern wheth~er h~e carried! coat rmor, Ipayotowit upon0 11131 and11 tell hint that a very hiumblle knight of Enig land ablides ht're, so that if lie he0 ini nte' f adv'ancement, or hav'e an~y small11 vow potn hIs sotul, or desire to exailt his ladty, may help hInt to accomiplish it." Aylward at this order camne forwarli md the trees, and in an instantt the tIwo en were clinginlg in each othler's armna, aughing ande shouting aild patting each other In their delIght; while Sir Nigt'l ame running with his sword, under the( mpression that stome blekering had brok >nout, only to embtlrace andl lbe enmbra'edl imself. unitil all three were htoarse wilth their questions and outcrIes and congratu latons. On their journey home throtugh the oods Alleyne learnt their wondrous story: ow, when Sir Nigel came to his sentscs, ie with his fellow-captive had been hur ried to the coast, and conveyed by sea o their captor's castle; how upon the way they had 'heen taken by a Barblary rove'r, and how they exchanged their light eap iity for a seat on a galley bench andl hard hlbor at the pirate's oars; how, in the port at Barbar'y, Sir Nigel had slaint the oorish captain, and had swum with Ayl ward to a smalil c'oaster which tiey had taken, and so mnade their way to Eniglandi with a ric'h cargo to reward thiem for thleir tliiS. All this Alleyne listened to, unitil the dark keep of Twvynhiam toweredl above them in the gloaming, and thiey 3:aw theC red sun lyig athwart the rippling Avon. No need to speak of the glad hearts at wynham Castle that night, nor of the rich offerings from out thatt Moorish e'argo which fotind their way to the chapel of Father Christopher. Sir Nigel Lorin~g lived( for many years. full of honor and laden with every bless ing. He rode no moire to the wars. but lie found his way to every .jousting witliln thirty miles; and the Hamnpshiire youthl treasured it as the highest htonolr whmen a word of praise fell fromi himli as to th~eir' ntanagement of their horses, or their breaking of their lances. So he lived and' so he died, the miost reveredl andh tile hatp plest man in all his natIve shire. For Sir Alleynie Edrieson andI for his beautiful bride the future had also nauIlghlt ut what -s good. Twice lie fought in France. and cante back each tune lallen with honors. A high platce at court was iven to 1him, an! lie spent niany ye':rs at Windsor uder the second Richard! and the ourth H-enry- where lie received thle honor of the Garter. atnd won3 thle namne of iie'ng a brave soldier, a true-heartedl geni 1 emantl. and a greatt lover anid patron of every art and11 science which re'inecs or eni lobes life. As to John. he took ento himnself a vil ae matidi andlS' stild in Lyndhulirst, where his Ev'e thousand crowns madle hinm le richest franiklinl for many mliles around., For inany years lhe drank hIs ale every' night at the "Pied Merlin," which was now kept 'y his friend Ayhwardl, who hnd wedded the g(od widow to whom he had omitted his plndher. The strong mten and the howmien olf thio eeuntry round used to drop in there of an eveninai to wrestle a fall wvith John or to shoot a round with Aylward. lbut. tmonah a sil'.er shilling wats to beo the prize of the victory. it has nover been reported that anly mant earned muche money in that faoshlon. So they lived, these men, ini their own, lusty. heerv faishiio--ride and11 rough, but lion est, lkirily and' true. Let us thank God if ~e i1Ate outtgrowXn thleir vilces. Let uus pray to God that we lmy ever hell thteir rirtues. TTTE END. COOL GARMENTS FOR COMFORT. The Shirtwaist the Leader-Whitea the Coolest Color. Bertha Browning. 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