A Random "The Outlaw Of Torn" Cutup

Thin vertical cut from which the red blood had barely started to ooze and another thought which now filled his mind was the fact of his they were upon the highroad now, but he did not put her down. A mist "Seest thou this poniard?" she asked. "When that door falls, this point his defiance in the King's, thy uncle's, face, and bend his whole life spoke, her face lighted with a hundred little changing expressions of her quick glance had shown her that the room was quite empty, and that "His friends are from the ranks of the lowly, but so too were the "I thought that they had killed you, and all for me, for my foolish the court beyond.

Slowly his arms relaxed, and gently and reverently he lowered Joan "Fetch me the bundle, hag," replied De Vac, "and you shall have gold "Hush, child," replied the outlaw. "You know not what you say. When you of those who fell before his own sword the initials NT.

Precipitately toward the coast had regained the castle and the Priory, might have won him to a better life. It seemed that in his speech was a as Norman of Torn rode back to his grim castle in the hills of Derby, he accustomed bench. "Naught but sorrow and death follow in my footsteps. I that he was taught as thoroughly as swordsmanship; speaking French france had ever produced in a futile attempt to rescue his young prince. From the disintegrating masonry of the river wall, and consigned the de Conde was the guest of the Earl of Leicester for several days, and the Lady Joan, a swarthy messenger handed a letter to the captain of the henry was even now negotiating with the leaders of foreign mercenaries, serf were ranging unchecked through Derby? Edwild, whose father was torn even this elicited no movement. With a shrug of his iron clad shoulders, had been raining, so that she rode beneath the eyes of her father's men foot-stool, hurled it full at Peter of Colfax.

Indeed have a chance to vanquish the Outlaw of Torn. But they did not marvel," answered Beauchamp.

"What the devil be this," cried one of the knights, as the main body of word was that Bertrade de Montfort and her mother, accompanied by Prince they rode for many miles in silence when suddenly she turned, saying: Strength of a young bull, the other with the cunning of an old gray fox, servants, and five hundred sumpter beasts to transport their tents and accomplished; and, as the only one I fear in these parts received such unchallenged, entered and sought his apartments in the palace.

But when he would have passed through with the tiny Prince, the latter "Would that I might, my friend," answered Norman of Torn. "But hast he might have struck the King, but then there would have been left to away from danger.

The insignia which always marked him to his men in the midst of battle. Had light from three sides. In charge of it was the lean, grizzled, "If I had not before known it, My Lord," she replied haughtily, "it tense silence for a moment held the room in the stillness of a lips, his yellow fangs bared in a mad and horrid grin, he rushed full pack of attacking ruffians were driven into the Thames.

Man had little difficulty in fitting one of the suits of armor to would not talk. Her whole mind was devoted to weighing each possible "It is the first command I have obeyed since I turned sixteen, Bertrade and, by a long subterranean passage, had reached the quarters of some awestricken upon the marvellous swordplay scarcely breathed in the impossible; then her glance fell again upon the head grinning there upon uselessly at the hands of a mere boy. He would not call upon his friends "I drew in the service of a woman, Your Majesty, not in the service of a him from behind; and even as she looked, she saw a battle axe fall full the identity of my father? Could a De Montfort face the world with such last of all came the catapults, those great engines of destruction which "What boon would the knight ask?"

The Queen and the outlaw had turned at the first words to see the King in a moment, De Vac had disarmed him, but, contrary to the laws of word hath he sent."

I can only guess, Norman of Torn, because I have seen another whom you breathes the air of England. Nor can you chide my sinful brain that it "What means this," cried De Montfort, "has the rascal offered you harm as his following and wealth increased, he rebuilt and enlarged the grim beamed ceiling, stained almost black from the smoke of torches and oil sentries patrolled the entire circumference of the bivouac, for the and the reason was Bertrade de Montfort.

Chivalry, he did not lower his point until it had first plunged through peter of Colfax and Norman of Torn.

Laid aside his surcoat and plumed hat to take the foils with De Fulm, the Trent.

Strange vagaries of a disordered brain! Yes it must have been a very turning again to the door, De Montfort summoned a couple of his having one eye gone, and a mighty red scar from his forehead to his no wife; nor within the limits of my memory have my lips ever before gracious daughter to mention. I have come to pay homage to Bertrade de joys shall be my joys; thy sorrows, my sorrows; and thy enemies, even farewell." And with a brave smile that hid a sad heart, Norman of Torn am glad to call you friend."

Rose above the thousand lesser noises of the castle courts, the shouting de Stutevill.

That she felt fully certain that the Baron was quite equal to his dire of one of his earlier antagonists. Slowly the old man worked around and that he is of horrid countenance, wearing a great yellow beard and the girl paled, more in loathing and contempt than in fear, but the it had become a subject often discussed among the men as to which of the the mind of the old master of fence.

That the Outlaw of Torn was too far ahead to be caught by the King's "'Tis Sir Norman of Torn," spoke up Red Shandy, "with his great host they were upon the highroad now, but he did not put her down. A mist whimper in his fright. So fearful was he of the terrible De Vac that a during the period that the boy's character was most amenable to strong banner would be found on their side.

"This way," she whispered, again slipping her hand into his and, in leader, each of these fierce warriors carried a great price upon his in those fierce, wild days, that none thought it worthy of more than a "If the King does not mend his ways," said one of the knights, "we will and roughly denied by her father.

Having sent his escort on to Dover, had stopped to visit the wife of a coming, he could not do less than that which he felt his honor demanded. Stirred in his heart which had been struggling for expression for years. De Montfort from demanding satisfaction for such a gross insult. That across wall and floor.

Before the officer threw himself against the panels and burst out before but the grieving mother wondered at the strangeness of the act. Did not, at first, recognize him, and when he spoke, she burst into figure, unconcealed by either bassinet or hauberk, reflected the clean, the little army had been marching for some hours when the advance guard behind him, as he rode down the steep declivity that day, loomed a very presently he began to whimper, for he was tired and hungry and him, obliterating the devices so that none might guess to whom it had fitted to the lock of the door sent him gliding stealthily to the wall note of wistfulness. I wish, father, that we had taken his hand." then will I starve you out," he cried at length.

Mon fils," he shuddered, and the little hairs at the nape of his neck king writes to his friend, the Outlaw of Torn."

With awe and his childish imagination ran riot as they approached the that it be false or true, but now, if ever, the time hath come for the would lavish upon her for the information she felt sure she alone could number of men were approaching.

The open by the outlaws, that filled the coffers of Norman of Torn with love upon those that were upturned to him.

While London itself was solidly for the barons and against the King's him from above, and drawing in his horse, he looked up into the eyes of by their hundreds of embrasures, each lit up by the red of the raging is for this that you have wormed your sneaking way into my home? And strong.

Reckless of the slippery road and the blinding rain, Bertrade de anger.

"Since you laid me low in the hut of the good priest, I have served you stillness.

Some thirty minutes later, five hundred iron-clad horses carried their seemed a matter of little doubt but that, in any crisis, his grisly nine-tenths the nobles of England."

So Norman of Torn ordered the others to assist him into the hut, where baron to remain, and nothing fights more fiercely than a cornered rat. Torn and Leicester."

The girl turned to see what detained him, but his back was toward her to hers.

Great wooden carts drawn by slow, plodding oxen were daily visitors to with an army at their call, it were an easy thing to take a lone man, revenge against this man for whom he felt no loyalty. If possible, he thy fair lady."

Her riding apparel and the trappings of her palfrey, but as well in her way, he looked up to womankind, if it could be said that Norman of Torn pot-bellied old beast in a soft and fawning tone, "love must still find they be? To which side owned they allegiance? And, then, as the fetch more food from the kitchen, but he turned immediately he had of the house of Plantagenet. Whatever else of mischief De Vac might be if Bertrade de Montfort loved this handsome French prince, then Norman beyond the majority of nobles, and you have a good heart and a true "The devil take them," cried De Fulm. "Where can they have gone? Surely he ever in his after-life to experience the sensation. With childish of Torn.

"I be an old friend of My Lord, here; but let me tell you a little kingly oath to maintain it. But what all England did not know, De Vac mad. But why Flory's armor and where was the faithful Flory?

He was fully dressed and in armor, as he had been when struck down, but parallel the first.

Down the dusty road with his head, at least, protected from the idle she had scarcely reached the ramparts of the outer gate ere the King's de Montfort is all and even more than you have said; it be a benediction the little doorway of the building he sought. At length he came upon it, laid aside his surcoat and plumed hat to take the foils with De Fulm, things drift except for a single word of warning to Joan de Tany. Chin."

The Outlaw of Torn ride within reach of the King who has placed a price be accomplished, and Bertrade de Montfort would no longer lure Norman of upon their right; and then there came a distinct moan, and Joan de Tany would nurse a punctured skin for a few days. So, while blood was often not mention this matter to thy father, nor let him know when thou come greystoke rushed to their aid, and then it was that a little, wiry, gray "I had almost forgot a message I have for you, my son. Father Claude lord."

What explanation hast thou to make, Sir Peter, for this base treachery greystoke was determined to sell his life dearly, and he rushed the lad "My Lord Prince," he cried. "What do ye here, and alone?"

Madame!" exclaimed the surprised man. "Be all the world gone crazy?" the court beyond.

"Couldst thou but have seen him fight, my mother, and witnessed the bitter.

Wield not swords, nor do they move, or moan. The wind, I think, and rats

With a little cry she arose, and then, curtsying low after the manner of welcome me there."

Shadows of the ballium, they passed into the moonlit inner court. At the stairways until presently he stopped before a low door.

Running her fingers along the molding until she found a little hidden indeed have a chance to vanquish the Outlaw of Torn. But they did not ignore the divine favor. So Brus took the gold zecchins and De Vac the vac's loyalty to the house he served had been buried in the Cathedral of the clouds.

Being afraid of meeting with the Devil of Torn, and told him that he england to wipe the great name from the pages of history--perhaps a of Leybourn greets Norman of Torn; shall it be with outstretched hand or then, on the third day, as he sat with Bertrade de Montfort in an knight's sword passed through the throat of his final antagonist. Had done this thing, or which way to search for my sister."

Spaniard, the single traitor in the service of Norman of Torn, whose the living which fell into his hands with a red hot iron, branding was a sudden scamper of clawed feet before them, and a red fox dashed by torn, thou mayst answer those whom thou desire to know it that thou art rider draw rein, but, like a black bolt, the mighty Sir Mortimer struck should know him in his true colors.

"I be no madman, Your Majesty. Never did brain work more clearly or to beyond the majority of nobles, and you have a good heart and a true during the years he had served as master of fence at the English Court, had reason to believe he would find a certain young woman, and though it a narrow alley ran past the building, ending abruptly at the bank of the for an instant, the watchers stood as though petrified, and then terrible wound that the little old man of Torn had given him; but why "Come," said the man called Guy, "if there be life left in her, we must forced to grasp him roughly by the arm. There was a cry of rage and where it waved might always be found the fighting and the honors, and room, and behind him stood Joan de Tany.

Before sunrise on a May morning in the year 1264, the barons' army set "I was but now bound, under escort of five of my father's knights, to of Torn trotted into the courtyard.

"Take the Lady Mary, John," cried Joan, "I brought Roger de Conde to an utter contempt for pain or danger--a contempt which was the result of "Nay, it was a man upon whose head Your Majesty has placed a price, door, which immediately swung open without waiting the formality of the royalists until they were able to fall upon it, crying out insults its internal plan, and so he knew that through the scullery he could visored horseman who--but let us wait until we get to him.

Together they rode toward Battel, and as they talked, Norman of Torn forgets."

Of her pursuers, bred in Normandy and Flanders, might have been tethered of your imagination to frighten yourself with. I do not fear, since I "Thou hast made thyself and thy opinions quite clear," he said bitterly, "Come," said the man called Guy, "if there be life left in her, we must there are others who look to me for guidance and my duty calls me away would have been on his heels in ten minutes; there would have been no and, for the first time in his life of continual combat and death, "I promise, Norman of Torn."

The great troop, winding down the rocky trail from Torn's buttressed and so thy face must be wrapped in many rags. And listen, should any ask passed the doorway and listened from without.

The knight whipped out his sword, but the Devil of Torn was even may be. When a man's head be filled with a pretty face, what room be my son," she was wont to say, "and then you shall go out and kill many sigh.

Sentry who stood just without. The sentry transmitted the message to a morning, and returned to town, leaving but a single man on watch. He, "There is no other woman, Bertrade," said Norman of Torn. "I have would fain look upon the countenance from which issue the commands of cooled thy love; nor could his have survived the sneers and affronts on one occasion, he chanced upon a hut at the outskirts of a small "Be ye Norman of Torn?" he asked. And, did he try to conceal the hatred friends to curry favor with the King."

The men; while those already packed were wandering loose among the other which covered the object that the man had placed there.

From tower to scullery, but in the service of My Lady, no looting." the three knights listened but there was no answer.

Norman of Torn led in the laugh which followed, and of all the company there with its huge, buttressed Saxon towers whose mighty fifteen foot leader raised his sword on high, and, as one man, the thousand broke "Be he outlaw or devil," she cried, "he is a brave and courteous knight, when they reached the wall, De Vac and the Prince were upon the outside, my poor eyes if they deceive me into believing that no fairer woman grew to like this brave and handsome gentleman. In his heart was no their attic home to visit the little old woman. It was in the dusk of "Be careful of thy heart, Joan," she said, "lest it be getting away from question with haughty pride. Why should he hesitate, he thought. Was it farm lands of the poor Saxon peasants, to whom Norman of Torn paid good montfort before him; and now another vision arose that would effectually not what you think him. So say no more of praise until we be out of this that it be so late in the day, and the way so beset with dangers that men, your followers, prepared to protect the security of our person, and the knight was holding his own splendidly with the three retainers, and have eaten but once in forty-eight hours."

Claude, the priest reverted to the subject of many past conversations; Pushed open the door behind him; backing into the other apartment just only be quick and let me hence with my sister."

Years with his band of outlaw cut-throats. Then he turned once more to whole being.

With a lesser mortal, and he who strikes a king may not live--the king's he most enjoyed the joke.

Be wrapped in many rags, for thou hast a most grievous toothache. Dost I stick my head into London town, it would doubtless stay there, held by second. All that long night she sat thus, and when morning dawned, it asked bluntly if she heard aught of Bertrade de Montfort.

Three fellows, but in that time you should easily make your escape. "It be the cruel truth, My Lady Bertrade," said Norman of Torn sadly. "Thou be a fool, Mary," she said.

The great ruffian paused, then stopped, slowly a sheepish smile chief and had already poured his tale into the ears of the little, grim, pleasure in riding with a suit of armor; I would see that there is a man so swiftly moved his flying blade that half the time it was a sheet of for an instant Bertrade de Montfort stood spell-bound by the exhibition as they were seated in the priest's hut one afternoon, a rough knock and that was the end.