r walls!” eried another. “What sort of talk is this for a public inn?” “Shall it be a litany, my good clerk?’ shouted a third; “or would a hymn be good enough to serve?” The jongleur had put down his harp in high dudgeon. “Am 1 to be preached to by a child?’ he cried, staring across at Alleyne with an in- flamed and angry countenance. “Is a hairless infant to raise tongue against me, when I have sung in every fair from Tweed to Trent, and have twice been named aloud by the High Court of the Minstrels at Beverly? 1 shall sing no more to-night.” “Nay, but you will so,” sald one of the Inborers. “HI! Dame Eliza, bring a stoup of your best to Will, to clear his throat, Go forward with thy song, and if our girl-faced clerk does not love it he can take to the road and go whence he came.” “Nay, but not too fast,” broke In Hordle John. “There are * words In this matter. It may be that my little comrade has been over-quick in reproof, he having gone early into the cloisters and seen little of the rough ways and words of the world, Yet there is truth in what he says, for as yon know well, the song was not of the cleanest. I shall stand by him, therefore, and he shall neither be put out on the road, nor shall his ears be offended indoors.” “Indeed, your high ana mighty grace,” sneered one of the yeomen, “have you in sooth so ordained?” “By the Virgin!” sald a second, “I think that you may both chance to find yourselves upon the road before long." “And s0 belabored as to be scarce able to crawl along it,” cried a third. “Nay, I shall go! 1 shall go!” said Alleyne hurriedly, as Hordle John be- gan to roll up his sleeves, and bare an arm like a leg of mutton. “I would not have you brawl about me.” “Hush, lad!” he whispered, “I count them not a fly, They may find they have more tow on their distafr| than they know how to spin. Stand thou clear and give me space.” Joth the foresters and the laborers had risen from their bench, and Dame | Eliza and the travelling doctor had | flung themselves between the two parties with soft words and soothing | gestures, when the door of the Pled | Merlin was flung violently open, and | the attention of the company was | drawn from their own quarrel to the | new-comer who had burst 80 uncere- moniously upon them. CHAPTER IV. He was a middle-sized man, of most massive and robust build, with an arching chest and extraordinary breadth of shoulder, His shaven face was as brown as a hazel-nut, tanned and dried by the weather, with harsh well-marked features, which were not improved by a long white scar which stretched from the corner of his left | nostril to the angle of the jaw. Ilis | eyes were bright and searching, with | something of menace and of authority in their quick glitter, and his mouth | was firm-set and bard, as befitted one who was wont to set his face against danger. A straight sword by his side and a painted long-bow jutting over | his shoulder proclaimed his profession, while his scarred brigandine of chaln- mail and his dinted steel cap showed that he was no holiday soldier, but one who was even now fresh from the wars. A white surcoat, with the Lion of Bt. George In red upon the centre, covered Lis byoad breast, awhile a sprig of new-plucked broom at the gide of his head-gear gave a touch of “HORDLE JOHN HURLED HIM ACROSS THE ROOM SO THAT HIS HEAD CRACKED AGAINST THE WALL." gayety and grace to his grim, war. worn equipment. “La petite is frightened,” sald he, “Ah, c'est l'amour, l'amour! Curse this trick of French, which will stick to my throat. I must wash it out with some good English ale. By my hilt! camarados, there is no drop of French blood In my body, and I am a true English bowman, Samkin Aylward by name; and I tell you, mes amis, that it warms my very heart-roots to set my feet on the dear old land once more. When 1 came off the galley at Hythe, this very day, I down on my bones, and 1 kissed the good brown earth, as I kiss thee now, ma belle, for it was eight long years since I had seen it. The very smell of It seemed life to me. But where are my six ras- cals? Hola, there! En avant!” At the order, six men, dressed as common drudges, mat hed solemn'y ‘into the room, each bearing a huge bundle upon his head. They formed in military line, while the soldier stood in front of them with stern eyes, checking off their several packages. “Number one~a French feather-bed with the two counterpanes of white Turkey cloth and nine clls of cloth of Put it down by the other. Good ame, I prythee give each of these men & bottrine of wine or a Jack of ale. full plece of white | Ing with open eyes at | here up and i ly, Genoan velvet purple silk. Thou rase.l, dirt on the hem! Thou hast it against some wall, coquin!” “Not I, most worthy sir,” eried the carrier, shrinking away from the fierce eyes of the bowman, “1 say yes, dog! By the three kings! I have seen a man gasp out his breath for less. Had you gone through the pain and unease that 1 have done to earn these things you would be at more care. 1 swear by my ten finget bones that there i8 not oneof them that hath not cost its weight in French blood! Four—a incense-boat, a ewer of silver, a gold buckle, and a cope worked in pearls. I found them, camarades, at the Church of 8t. Denis in the harrying of Narbonne, and I took them away with me lest they fall into the hands (f the wicked. Five—a cloak of fur turned up with minever, a gold goblet with stand and cover, and a hox of rose-colored sugar, See that you lay them together, Six a box of moneys, three pounds of Li- mousine gold-work, a pair of boots, sliver tagged, and, lastly, a store of naping linen. So, the tally is com- plete! Here {8 a groat aplece, and you may go." “Go whither, worthy sir?” asked one of the carriers. “Whither? To the devil, If ye will What is it to me? Now, ma belle, to supper. A palr of cold eapons, a mor- tress of brawn, or what vou will, with a flask or two of the right Gascony. 1 have crowns in my pouch, my sweet, and I mean to spend them. Bring In wine while the food is dressing. Bu- vons, my brave lads! You shall each empty a stoup with me.” Here was an offer which the com- pany In an English inn, at that or any other date, are slow to refuse. The flagons were regathered, and came back with the white foam dripping over thelr edges. Two of the wood- men and three of the laborers drank thelr portions off hurriedly and troop- ed off together, for their homes were distant and the hour late. The others, however, drew closer, leaving the place of honor to the right of the glee- man to the free-handed newcomer, He had thrown off his steel cap and his brigandine, and had placed them with his sword, his quiver, and his painted long-bow, on the top of his varied heap of plunder in the corner. Now, with his thick and somewhat bowed lega stretched in front of the blaze, his green jerkin thrown open, and a great quart pot in his corded fist, he looked the plcture of comfort and good-fel- lowship. His hard-set face had soft. ened, and the thick crop of crisp brown curls which had been hidden by his helmet grew low upon his massive neck. He might have been forty years of age, though hard toll and harder pleasure had left their grim marks upon his features, Alleyne sat, star- a type of man unlike any whom had been good or his eatalogue, but who was flerce one and gentle the next, with a his lips with ells of there is brushed twelve 0 and so he had strange had met. Men been bad in Was A man instant curse and a amile in his eye. What was to be made of such a man as that? It ed on that the soldier looked saw the questioning glance which the young clerk threw upon him. He raised his flagon and drank to him, with a merry flash of his white teeth “A tol, mon garcon'!” he cried. “Hast surely never seen a man-at-arms, that thou shouldst stare so? “I never have,” sald Alleyne frank- “though I have oft heard talk of thelr deeds” “By my hilt!" cried the other, "if you were to cross the narrow sea you would find them as thick as bees at a teehole. Couldst not shoot a bolt down any street of Bordeaux, I warrant, but you would pink archer, squire or knight. “And where got you all those pretty things?" asked Hordle John, pointing at the heap in the corner. “Where there Is as much more wait. i ing for any brave lad to pick It up. Where a good man can always earn a good wage, and where he need look upon no man as his paymaster, but just reach his hand out and help himself, Aye, It Is a goodly and a proper life, And here I drink to mine old comrades, and the saints be with them! A rouse all together, mes enfants, under paln of my displeasure! To Sir Claude Las tour and the White Company!" “Sir Claude Latour and the White Company!” shouted the travellers, draining off their goblets, “Well quaffed, mes braves! It is for me to fill your cups again, since you have drained them to my dear lads of the white Jerkin. Hola, mon ange, bring wine and ale. How runs the old stave ™ "We'll drink altogether To the gray goose feather, And to the land where the gray goose flow. * He roared out the eateh In a harsh I am 0 Heiter bowman than a minstrel” ma oe, “Methinks T have some remembrance of the NIL” remarked the gleeman, running his fingers over the strings, offence, most holy sir with a vielous snap at Alleyne~"and with the kind permit of the company, I will venture Many a time In the after days Ale leyne BEdrickson seemed to see that scene, for all that so many which were “Hoping that It will give thee no gtranger and more stirring were soon to crowd upon Him. The fat, red-faced gleeman, the listening group, the arch- er with upraised finger beating in time to the music, and the huge sprawling figure of Hordle John, all thrown into red light and black shadow by the flickering fire In the centre—memory was to come often lovingly back to it. At the time he was lost in admiration at the deft way in which the jongleur disguised the loss of his two missing gtripgs, and the lusty, hearty fashion in which he trolled out his little ballad of the outland bowmen, which ran in some such fashion as this: “What of the bow? The bow was made In England: Of true wood, of yew wood, The wood of English bows; fo men who are free Love the old yew tree And the land where the yew tree grows. “What of the cord? The cord was made in England: A rough cord, a tough cord, A cord that bowmen love; So we'll draln our jacks To the English flax Aud the land where the hemp was wove, “What of the shaft? The shaft was cut In England: A long shaft, a strong shaft, Barbed and trim and true; Bo we'll drink all together To the gray goose feather And the land where the gray goose flew, “What of the men? The men were bred in England: The bowmen—the yeomen The lads of dale and fell. Here's to you--and to you! To the hearts that are true And the land where the true hearts dwell” “Well sung, by my hilt!” shouted the archer, In high delight. "Many a night have 1 heard that song, both in the old war-time and after, in the days of the White Company, when Black Bimon of Norwich would lead the stave, and four hundred of the best bowmen that ever drew string would come roaring in upon the chorus. 1 have seen old John Hawkwood, the same who has led half the company | intd Italy, stand laughing In his beard as he heard it, until his plates rattled again. But to get the full smack of | it ye must yourselves be English how- men, and be tar off upon an outland soll” “It passes me,” he cried, “how all you lusty fellows can bide scratching your backs at home when there are such doings over the seas. Look at me-—what have I to do? It Ms but the eye to the cord, the cord to the shaft, and the shaft to the mark. There is the whole song of It. “And the wage?™ asked a laborer. “You see what the wage brings." answered. “I eat of the best. I treat my friend, and I ask no friend to treat me T clap a silk gown upon my girl's back. Never a knight's lady shall be better betrimmed and be- trinketed. How 1 that, mon gare eon? And how of the heap of trifies that you can sce fer yourselves in yonder rner? They are from the South French, every one, upon whom I have heen making war. By my hilt! eamarades, T think that T may let my plunder speak for itself" Though there may be peace between our own provinces and the French, yet within the marches of France there in always war, for the country is much divided against itself, and is furthermore harried by bands of flay- ers, skinners, Brabacons, tardvenus, and the rest of them. When every man's grip is on his neighbor's throat, and every five-sous-plece of a baron is marching with tuck of drum to fight whom he will, 1t would be a strange thing if five hundred brave English boys could not pick up a lving. Now that Sir John Hawkwood hath gone with the East Anglian lads and the | Nottingham woodmen into the serv. fce of the Marquis of Montferrat to fight against the Lord of Milan, there are but ten-score of us left: yet IT mhy be able to bring some back with me fo fill the ranks of the White Company. he of al ¢ ’ : Don't take scoop coffee when vou want Arbuckles’ ARIOSA Coffee, which is sold only in sealed packages aud never loose out of a ** scoop.” A grocer may recommend a loose cof- | {oUF other concerns in the world com- [to your freight station, fee at so much a pound. He is all right, He means well, If he handled the coffee | form. fimself, from the tree to you, you might | well trust him implicitly, Jut he does not ! He may know something about coffee. He may think he He buys it loose ! mean anything, He trusts the man he buys it from--maybe a salesman, maybe a wholesaler, maybe a little local roaster. It does not matter, What do they know about coffec? More than the groger? Perhaps. Where do they get their coffee ? Where does it come from ? Whose hands touched it last ? Where had they been ? They can’t tell Java from Brazilian by | the looks after it is roasted, and it takes a man, expert by years of practical ex- | perience, to select sound, sweelL green coffee of high cup merit; and another man with the knowledge and experience Ld ” said have “Nay, I am a man Alleyne Edricson. other work to do.” “Peste!" growled the ing his flagon on the board until the dishes danced again. “What, in the name of the devil, hath come over the folk? Why sit ye all moping by the of peace" “Besides 1 soldier, strike. { fireside, like crows round a dead horse, { when there { within a few short leagues o { upon you all, is man's work to be done f ye? Out as a set of laggards and hang-backs! By my hilt I believe that the men of England are all in, France alres and that what Is left behind are in sooth the women dressed up In thelr paltocks and hosen™ “Archer,” quoth Hordl have lied more thar than twice; f wh cause 1 see much am sorely tempts your back™ “By my hilt! then, YT have found man at last!” shouted the bowman “And, "fore God, you are a better man than I take you for if you can lay me on my back. For seven long years 1 have found no man In the Company who could make my Jerkin dusty.” “We have had enough bobance and boasting.” sald Hordle John, rising and throwing off his doublet. *I will show you that there are hetter men left In England than ever went thieving to France” “Pasques Dieu!" cried the archer, loosening his jerkin, and eyeing his foeman over with the keen glance of ane who Is a judge of manhood. *1 have only once before seen such a body of a man. By your leave, my red. headed friend, I should be right sorry to exchange buffets with you: and 1 ii addy, 4] d : 8 | | the supp | | ist, |] | employment—manipulating a little roast- does, but let that pass, {er or in the Arbuckle From whom? You (yearly roast amounts to the hun don't know--if you did it would not million | package of Arbuckles’ ARIOSA. { ready to use, | bean alter roasting with a coating of genuine Arbu Sr —_——— m » | bout, rush WY. / i, { to proportion and blend for uniform re sults in the cup. First they must have ly to preserve uniform quality. Arbuckles buy more coffee than any bined, and their coffee is the most uni- Then the roasting, “The Brazilian Ambassador tells me that coffee-roas ting is an art,” was the court testimony of a world famous chem- | | Where are artists more likely to fine i” ¢ mills, where the dred wounds ? Jon't take scoop coffee, but buy a Take 1 keep the bean intact until We hermetically seal each elo] me it ho anc fresh eggs and sranulated sugar to close the pores and preserve the flavor, A lit- tie warming develops the flavor, Coffee deteriorates if exposed to the air—-it also collects dust and absorbs J utatien, That why you BEWARE OF THE SCOOP.” If your 3 saoulq *' ory grocer will Kil not sell you the ARIOSA Coffee ) your advantage to buy ) "5 it Wil De grealy t quick feint he threw guard, and then, threw his leg the other off his bounding upon him, nd his bull neck, in the hops bearing him to the ground with sudden shock. With a bellow of rage, Hordle John squeezed him limp In his huge arms; and then picking him up, cast him down upon the floor with that might well have splintere one or two, had not the archer » Ost perfect cool- » other's forearms As it he i nd kept his balan a jar through his frame creaking He perilous foe- ed by the ) and so wrestler the very had planned. As g} iself upon him, the ducked under the great red that clutched for him, and, catching } man round the thighs, harried him over his shoulder—helped as much by his own mad rush as by Jhe trained strength of the heave, To Alleyne's was as If John had himself wings and flown led through the alr, with rolving, the 1ad’'s heart for surely no man a fall and came In truth, hardy as the man was, his neck had been as- suredly broken had he not pitched head first on the very midriff of the drunken artist, who was slumbering so peacefully In the corner, all unaware of these stirring doings. The luckless limner, thus suddenly brought out from his dreams, sat up with a plercing yell, while Hordle John bounded back inte rot af i the Co wan De drog t 4 ¢ bounded n; bu “ eye, it scathless out of It will allow that there is no man in the | the circle almost as rapidly as he had Company who would pull against you | ur on a rope; 80 let that be a salve to yo pride. On the other hand, I should judge that you have led a life of ease for some months® back, and that muscle is harder than your own am ready to wager upon azainst you, If you are not afeard ™ “Afeard, thou lurden'™ John. “I never saw the face yet of a {man that T was afeard of. Come out, | and we shall see who Is the better [I {fo ” man “But the wager™ “I have nought to wager, the love and the Come out lust of the » iT { thing." By the tooth of Peter! it would be a bad thing If I could not muster many A Hamptonshire man who would be ready to strike in under the red flag of St. George, and the more so If Sir Nigel Loring of Cristehurch, should don hauberk once more and take the lead of us, “Ah, you would indeed be In luck then,” quoth the woodman; “for It is sald that, setting aside the prince, and mayhap good old Sir John Chandos, there was not in the whole army a man of such tried cou . “It 1s sooth, every of IL" the archer answered, have seen him with these two eyes In a stricken fleld, and never did a man carry himself better, Mon Dieu! yes, ye would not credit it to look at him, or to hearken to his poft volce, but from the salling from Orwell down “Nought to wager'™ cri 4 the soldier "Why, Idiot, you have that which 1 covet above all things. It Is that big body of thine that I am after. See now, I have a French feather bed these years back. I had It at the sack. hath not such a bed. If you throw me, Company as long as we be enrolled.” “Then you may bid farewell to your bed, soldier,” roared Hordle John, shall have you to France In spite of your teeth, and you shall live to thank infant? Collar and elbow, or close. lock, or catch how you can? “To the devil with your tricks!" said John, opening and shutting his great red hands, “Stand forth, and let me clip thee” “Shalt clip me as best youcan, then” quoth the archer, moving out into the open space, and keeping a most wary eye upon his opponent. He bad jupon, or undershirt, cut low In the neck and sleeveless. Hordle John was near stripped from his waist upward, and his huge body, with his great muscles swelling out like the gnarled roots of an oak, towered high above the soldier. The other, however, though near a foot shorter, was a man of great strength; renegade monk. He was quick on his feet too, and skilled at the game; so that it was clear, from the poise of head and shine of eye, that he counted the chances to be In his favor. It on vd been hard that Right, thro whole length of England, ta fet up a Aner putt In the aoe of each other, . Pig John stood waltldg (1 the contre with a sullen, menace’ ‘gr 6, and his red hair in a bristle, while the archer lightly and swiftly to the right with crooked knee and | 1] the me for it. How shall it be, then, my | growled Wig | Toft it “One m fa by he cried. throwing « “Not 1% Inthes jiness lt ro all the saints!” ut his arms, quoth the archer, pulling on “I have come well out of » 1 w “It was a trick'” “Aye was it! cried John By my ten finger. | bones! it Is a trick that will add a { proper man to the there, | which 1 have been at pains to keep ing of Issodun, and the king himself | it Is thine; but, If T throw you, then | ‘ou are under a vow to serve the White “Nay; 1 shall keep the bed, and 1] ranks of the Com- for that” sald the other, “count fly thee, since the life seems to be a goodly and proper one. Yet T would fain have had the feather-bhed ™ (To be Continued Next! Week) TO INTRODUCE A rlsil EMBROIDERY COTTON " oly, 12 Inch! ped We will send you a handsome 4 1 inch or 24 inch In diameter, stam on a On grade of white embroidery linen, for Ib cents, coils of 8 cents respectively, and enough A ris] to work it. 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