Beaulieu, At early dawn they the broad, sluggish, reed-girt| stream--tmen, horses, and baggage in the flat ferry barges—and so journeyed on through the fresh worning air past Ex- | bury to Lepe. V'opping the heathy down, | they came of a sudden full in sight of the | old seaport. way out from the town a line pessoners, creyers, aad other small eraft were rolling lazily on the ger swell. Further out still lay a great merchant ship, high-ended, deep- waisted, painted of a canary yellow, and towering the fishi boats like a swan am ! - | “By St. Paul!” said the knight, “our | good mer {f Sout pton hath not played us iks 1 can our ship doy said that she Id be of Heross of itle s nhote ng wou shade," men as there a IL" remarked Terlake; “for | my fair lord, that we are not | ones who are waiting passage to Gascony. Mine eye at times a flash and sparkle from ong yonder 3 which assuredly n the gabex the only cat TS) hous came shipman's jacket or line of a burgher.” “lI can also see it,” ing his eyes with his hand. men-at-arms in yonder betwixt the and are e fi sald Alleyne, shad “And I can | boats which | the shore wy welcome | rth to meet essel out them ntt 1 to } | “There 1s na ager,” said Bir strange thing if ¢ ghip when it ha her decks. ; and that “My lord,’ Bay, : of South sin th his h Py another master The gate it was brou nt the Yi and by a darting in every throng moved on, until ght to a =t } an, who ear town with rage iis rubicund face _ Sir Mayor?" he ; iN “How ill the clams in Kir the roared now, and ly. my sweet Sir Oliver” | the t. “1 have had so much to think of, with th wicked villians, close upon us, that it had quite gone out of my head.” “Nay, Sir Oliver, Bir Oliver!” eried Sir Nigel, laughing. “Let your anger be appeased, since inste wd of this dish yon | come upon an old friend “Ly Kt. Martin of Tours!" shouted the fat knight, his wath all changed in ah justant to joy, “if it is not my dear little game rooster of the Garonhe Ah sweet coz, 1 am right glad to see What days we have seen together “The clams and seallops shall be reads within the hout,” the mayor answered “1 had asked Rit Oliver Butte sthorn to do my humble board the honor to partake at it of the dainty upon which we take some little pride, but in sooth this alarm of pirates hath cast such a shadow on ny wits that 1 am like one distrait. Bot | trust, Bir Nigel, that you will ¢ #0 par take of none-ment with me? 3 “1 have over-much to do’ Mir Nigel answered, "for we must be aboard, hose and man, as early a4 we my How many do you muster, Yr Oliver?’ “Three-and-forty, orhree-and forty, 1 shall have work for every man of theth ere the sun set It Is my Intention, if It seeing foil to you, to try A venture ngalust these Norman and Genoese rovers.’ CHAPTER XII i Lonving the lusty knight and the Mayor of Lepe, Sit Nigel led the Comnany straight down to the water's edee, where tng lines of flat lighters swiftly hore them to their vessel, Horse after horse vat slung by main force up from fhe barges, and after kicking and pluneing fa empty sir wad dronped Into the deen valet of the yellow cog, where rows of stalls stood ready for their safe keeping. Pe 4 an La " and comrade my you pis wd | a yellow | Of from j + dered | giving Englishmen in those days were skilled and prompt in such matters, for it not long before that Kdward had embarked as many as fifty thousand men in the port of Orwell, with their horses and their baggage, all in the space of four-and- twenty hours, on the shore, and so prompt was Goodwin lHawtayne on the cog, that Sir Oliver Buttesthorn had scarce swallowed lust scallop ere the peal of trumpet and clang of naker ammounced that all was ready and the anchor drawn, boat which left the shore the manders sat together in the sheets, strange contrast to one another, while under the feet of the rowers was a litter of huge stones which Sir Nigel had ordered to be carried to the cog. These | two col- the Vi the the breeze heeled plunged sails bellied, sel, and away smooth, blue blew, the portly through Paul!” tood upon the im, "it poop and looked on is a land which is 1 it w bo ring m) 44 1, to hig squires, g up Sir Oliver's ¢. Ye may then for this day you fn very honorable en- 1 of chivalry and prove to your own will, 1 hope; mal trance into the fiele gee yourselves to be very worthy and valiant | squires, Al dispo tions \ should ord: “You, Sir Oliver, as to our would it please you that I r them or will yout" wkerel, you! chicken, but 1 cannot of war as the much or M Settle the Our | '¥ nnon th upon the hers. Two nen-at-arms and wp-guard, Ten men, under the while ten lit upon poop i in and t vos nbout WS And * OCKs was | So urgent was Sir Nigel | his | In the last] i » aboard, the ship set her broad m tin. | | | Boceanegra. | said Sir Nigel gayly, | . | RO hawks on a heron, symbol or device upon their sails? | “That on the right,’ said “appears to |} { upon it" | ; FET Norman," the pi of Tete-noire senman-ariner, the badge cried a { have seen it before, when he harried us| nt Winchelsea, und strong man, woman or beast, | the He is a wondrous large | with no ruth for man, strength of six; and, certes, he hath the crimes of six upon his soul.” “By, Bt. Paul!” said Sir Nigel, is that upon the other galley 7” | “it the red ol Genoa, | Spade-beard is a very noted captain, i it is his boast that there are no s and no archers in the world who Lh those who serve th “what in This wd AlN Cross is i cal compare wit Dog “That we | Iawtayne, | shall prove,” said Goodwin “They quarter, will lay us nboard on eith wy lord,” cried the master “Mee how they stretch out from eaca { other! 'T'ha Norman hath a mangonel or { n trabuch upon the forecastle, See, thy { bend to the levers! | loose it" “Aylward,” eried the knight, “plek ! three trustiest archers, and soe if you can rot do something to hinder their Methinks they are within long flight,” vo nim Seventeen archer, { forward, score paces,” said “Ly my ten finger-bones! notch a mark Watkin, { Willi 1} i dat that distance, of Nowley, Arnold. lot ud show the rogues y have English bowmen to deal The three archefds named stor { further end of the | with feet | drawn, until the arrows were level with the stave. “You are the eid Aylward, standing shaft upon string. “Deo rogue with the red eoil. down the man with the head piece, ane will bold myself ready if you miss, { they are about to loose her LHe, balance BProag heads of poop, widel iy y You is, Or you number to t cap bent oy rock which wa which would and send the hurtling turough "an instant the y stood ) at the wi He wilite » {in » how thels I'hey have mets aboard he anchor. Mee | : the forecastie! heave like handy ship fair lord, these are no but we have taken in ean do. Bach of yr gnleas, and of the i t make" had your eyes” sald Bir at the pirate galleys very gallant ships, and 1 v shall have much pleasance rot with them. It would Il to pass the word that we should neither give or take quarter this day.” The yellow cog had now shot out from the 1 waters of the Solent, and was plunging and rolling on the long heave of the open channel The wind blew freshly fromm the east, with a very Koen edge to it; and the great sail belli routidly out, laying the vessel over until the water hissed beneath het lee bub witha Broad « 4 ungainly, she flown from ware ta wave, dippihg her routl bows deep into the blue rollers, ind ling the white flakes of foam In A #patter aver her decks, On her lar board quarter ny the two dark galleys, which had already hoisted sail abd were shooting out from Freshwater Hay Ih swift pursuit, their double line of OArs them fn vantage which could net bring them up with any vessel which trusted to sails alone, Tish and baff the English cog: lone, back, and swift the pirate galleys, like two fierce leati wolves which have seen 8 lordly and unsuspecting stag walk past thelr Init, “Bhall we turn, my fair Ined, ov shall we oarry on?" nekod the mhnter-ahipman, looking behind him with anxious eyes NAY, we must earry on, and play the part of the helpless meron” “But vour pennons? They will see that we have two knights with we” “Yet it would not he to a knleht's honor or rood name to lower his nennon. Tot them be, and they will think that we are un wine shin for Gascony, or that we hear the woolhale of some mercer of the Btaple, Ma fol! but they nee very swift! They swoop upon us like two moeotinhe row sey fail to | nan tum | out | tn Is there not some | Fdricson, | wve the head of an Kthiop | They say that he hain | They are about to] arrow | 11 | Bir JR running his eye backward and | RCOTE it] would be a strange thing if we could not | Here, | Long | fury | with his You two bring | bim might I and mantiet # NDOUL our eAre ore Jong had bees d. the cog Youre la _— although the either shy I by froah gUAT unbr the til wind hard \ ¥ ie kwards, the th, “What was that?™ he a ng harpdrawn voles Ihe steorsman nt foot where \ atuck line A wre h 4 Par poi to Lieavy « ow quarrel n th irda, Al | at i the same neatan od forward upon his knees the deck, the bl of a second bolt jutting his hack As Alleyne stooped the alr secmed to be sharp tipgip of the bolt nd } ir them pattering on thi « ft a treoshaking lay life stained fo frof tise with the eonld bh Hke ap “Keop them In play, Ariward, with ter of your men,” maid Sir igel. “And let | ten of Nir Oliver's bowen do as mc) for the Genoese to show hem % Upon sther, of wn] him, alive (jm hay o | an lowked how much the fear from 1 The master-ahip AL the knight with a troubled face “They keep their distance from we" ald he. “Our archery Is over-good, Ah they will not close “I think I may trick them.” answered cheerfully, and passed his order to the archers, lostantly five of them | threw up their hands and fell prostrate upon the deck, “They =till hold aloof I” eried Haw tyne, “Then down with two more!” shouted their loader, "That will do, Ma foi! but they come to our lure lke chicks to the fowler. To your arms, men! As he spoke a toar of voices and a roll of drums eame from either galley, and the water was Iashod Into spray by the hurried beat of a hubdred ode wn the pirates swooped, Ih Beary olosters they Bung upon he forecastle all ready for a HPFInE enon white, faces brown, faces yellow, and faced black: falr Norsemen Afthy Tatiana, Aste tovers from the Teeant and fore Maom fram the Barbary Sintes of all hose and eovmtelen, and mnrked wiely hy the mon stamp of A wild Beast forocity, Raeping ap on Miles + with oars fealling to save them from manpitne, they voursd In a living torrent with hortid yell and shrill whoop upon the merchantman Rut wilder yot wan the ery, and sheillor «till the seream, when there rose un from the shadow of the mg’ silent hulwarks the long lines of the English howmen, and the Arrows whizsed in a deadly sleet nmong the unprepared masses upon the pirate deen One moment Allewns ww the ealiev’s poon crowed with rasling figures, waving arms, exultant faces; the nekt it the knight . | Aw | Sworn | shouted I have no mind as yot |. N wi i | Brodie the living shelter blood piled mented hme deep upon eacn behind th from that On either | seamen whom Sir had | the purpose had their the sides of the galleys, Fore and att the archers the galleys’ decks, but from either the rovers had poured down into waist, where the aud bow | were pushed back mingled their Le that It wi RFERRL hie 1or oluradaes COWEN them sudde th to clves ru-blast or death ide Nigel cho Ccnst Lt 4] had sid seamen and ) Ws ‘i ibove hi | foot HH Bil Tl f mn plate y led on his bon winging a Uge um with truck to th nim. Ont dwarf in hei vhich almost Aylward, Hordle Nore, sprang down short of the al nn 0, | there, now th l r blows on h [ an axe, springing over word, Kwift n who braced find h it d the sweep of nnd errati¢ that th himself for a blow paces off ere Three | #0 80 im six could bring fallen before | Spade-beard in man glant wn ritox and of kngth of a kt warned nim : shrift ie moved, Cowed and disheartonad by thelr leader, the Normans had and warks the low nq gl } 1 ng over galley, sirear their were how to on own on to the 0 the « clutching a 1 he board Terinke fell among the oars, Alleyne, iw Ani DOunaGe to the fi al aon staggering mself y hand apart full away were Indeed so far wee the draw Genosss toni dl oar the their that of aud { rapidly from the cop fight I” h an : the it i= a noble clapping his the Joop, vive Well struck, my Aylward! See he stormes among the Rpadebeard i= a 1 ook : b big John, They have cleared spring into the waist lerd! Well struck, Black Simon, how shipmen! tut this gallant wartiop “dy Heaven, Bir Nigel is down!” the squire, “Tp! roared John “It wast hat a feint He bears him back, He drives him to the side. Ah, by Our Lady, his sword i& through him! The death of the Genoese leader did indeed] bring the resistance to an end Amid a thunder of cheering from roe and from galleys the forked pennon fluttered upon the foreeaktle, and the galley, sweep ing round, came slowly back. he two knights had come aboapd the co. the shipman walked the deck, a pescofil]l mastar- marines onde more “There [a #Ad senith done to the eo Sir Nigel" sald he. “Tere 0 an hole In the side of two slid aorose, the sat] eplit throush the center, and the wood as bare as A friar's moll “Ny Bt. Paul! It would be a very sorry thing if we miffored you to be the worse for this day's work” sald Kir Nigel "Hat how fares It with vou, Badrcson? “IY fu nothing, my fale lord” sald Alene, who had now loosened his hasel net, whith wan cracked across hy (he Norman's blow, Freon fx ho upoke, How ever, his hed swirled round, and he fell to the deck with Je blood gushing from Wie nose and mouth, He wit Fome to dion sald fhe night, stobping over Mm a paseing Iu fingert throveh Mix hale, “1 have oe very vallant and gentle squire this day. Tow many mem haves fallen? “I have oricked off the tally,” maid Artward, “There are seven of the Win. chenter men, eleven seamen, your squire young Master Terlake, and nine a 4 “Took! it 3 ton, eried aead u Cleared blade, stooping under the swing a anchors ovel with | “hey knight id 3 He “He lance, rine, as a sr his halr, which VOW HL rie r do unde h nncKE velvet cap X apes wal wn Yara, the mien with their ) i | the & of | : that of a p of white nanasome his high i but his by the and by torn little young ngo the of ths ainless vant cried, . Pr ng that KiDg the ave, (To be Continued Neat Week.) 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