Show 811 Gory Scene in Recent Popular Novel > I When Men Fought with BattleAx y f and Sword Before the Inven < t tIn of Villainous Saltpeter Made Such Weapons Obsolete Hero is a gory scene from Ilalllwell Sutcllffos now novel Red o the l Feud The scene Is In England the time In tho Indefinite past and the f weapon used for the killings Is called a fosterbrother n kind of poleax Ho turned to find Red Ratcllffo out of saddle standing to the top of his I six feet four Inches of height and holdIng hold-Ing tho ax In his two brawny hands while he swayed It gently to and fro What followed passed with the speed F of a tempest flung from tho belly of a clear blue sky Wayne of Ludworth l got his sword out somehow and leaped back before his friends could get to 1 him Red Ratcllffo had run forward had parried his first wild sword thrust I as ono turns aside n bramble In ones path had lifted fosterbrother high and higher yet swinging It like a flail above his head t And then the great ax fell and t lit Wayne of Uidworths day was done and Red RatcllfTe with little time to spare If tho oncoming Waynes were to be met set his two feet firmly on tho ground and tugged and tugged at the ax where It lay In Waynes big skull and wrenched It looso in tho nick of time The stripling Wayne lighter of foot than his kinsman had outpaced him and his sword was perilously per-ilously near to RntcllfTo when at last ho wrenched the axhead tree ana swung It high again once more tho sword was turned aside lightly as with contempt and fosterbrother whistled as It cut Uio alt Shameless Wayne was close In now and made a desperate leap to save the lad his fore foot lit upon a patch of offal in the road and ho stumbled under un-der the haft of the big ax as It turned and whistled down tho wind and bit tho stripling through tho bone Fair on the crown Shameless Wayne caught half the blow as It descended and the haft with thick steel at Its core was weightyand hike a log ha rolled beside his fallen kinsman |