| Show cw ab richards bravery won lacy V the weekly short story by LEETE STONE IN TI I 1 I 1 days of goo gool I 1 queen anne there lived it lovely peasant maid mald in the village of 0 I 1 onre ith wilch lies ties on the emerald bosom of cornwall midway between those gems of traditional lore looe and polperro Pol perro her tier nama was alney and there was as not a tingle single swain in all the that would not willingly bave have laid down his life tor for ter except one the one who loved her perhaps roost most of all ills name was richard men bien smiled with a contemptuous curl of the airs when he pissed by ile ie wore no sw deword 41 rd he was gen ged tie a I 1 ver of peace pence a reader of books it was so 80 he came to be called a seeker after soft living in a city aid ace age when the creed of men was berla everlasting strife and bloodshed and lacy loved richard chard Hi floied hlin him for his sensitiveness loved him blin for the romance that lived within him stielf in glowing w ing wora oros and tender pas donate 1 aon ate little erses he be would bring her often on berdd berd d knee but lacy loving It kichard would not asure I 1 tiro ira of 0 it not until he proved himself the superior of all her hold and suitors in that mental province known as Ir bravery avery it must be remembered that lacy lived la in a throe when to woo and capture a love was a mat ter of mettle rather than mind one debt night itice ard and lacy strolled la in the tha velvet dusl on wide I moor faint utara stars above them rix midnight brilliance it U li Is sold that Orea Oren tover rode the moor lal last night richard lacy said a sudden decision forming her mind S ah all richard shivered ehl vered egerso it ui return before it Is fully dark I 1 Eer er chance be he will be abroad again tonight Illi Ill chardi charill Ri charill lacy drew closer 1 to him half turned and laired clasped her hands over ine i ne of his lean ean slim boulders shoulders I 1 ue e cannot W zo on like thie this I 1 will tell roil you now that I 1 love ion in all till ways but be nhom I 1 marry roust must be the bravest man in lanreath landreath Lan reath It ichard ill III marry you if you 11 halt hall Irea tover remember his hi dying tant whoever had courage con to stand dl erectly in its I 1 la pith with drawn sword and cry haiti unlit begones bleg Be gonel onel tint would banish liiro him forever from the he moor 11 ichird a toe face had whitened nith ith the pro progress greas of acy 3 words long illene allen e tien 11 en his lips were ivere pressed 1 in a thin line very well my love each n night shell find me here if it the shadowy steeds trample me into the moor remember that I 1 tried Grea tover be it known was an avaricious landowner wl wt 0 had hall lived in lone long afo ago lie ile had wasted a firta e la in useless law suits to selie getze a wide stretch of the moor fir r personal property from time immemorial mo moorland oriand had been com eom mon land free to all so emmit I 1 was wa Grea tover hy by hia his allure failure and the loss of his gold that he weak cred and died on his death bed he wore swore solemnly that he would return a 0 nighta nights and drive wildly over the moon moors he bad had longed to own la in a black coach barme hy by six sable hendless headless horses promising however bower cr that whoever among the men ot of zere brave enough to stand directly in his path and hid bid him film argone would banish his apparition forever from the moor so the years went by and always in the moonlight Urca Urea tover tie black coach and six BIZ headless bojes bo im haunted the moor careening wild ly the shade at f Gr Cren estover tover hiraam f half risen from his driving eat sent leandri forward madly and lashing grit first tie lead horses ben then bleir followers fol folio loers era with a IOL au snakelike whip richard went home after cacya urte a farewell a n nu nit to her as he verily verity believed hie ills last hours were at hand buckled on the sword be bad not worn since being instructed in its use mounted a nolte horse and rode forth at n to the mid die dle of I 1 a breath mo moor or there ther e he stat lund lonel himself and waited ID in the soft blaze of moonlit it hardly had he paused slier fit fur r down the dim horlyk ele v he discerned a a eying binck binek bil alt t ilch teemed seemed slowly indeed crow grow larger and larger ills eis glued upon what hat it 1 knew to bo be the approach bt 1 I great over and bis his unearthly fear took look hold of 0 richard and wound itself like a tight stricture around round hie his heart then of a mud ud den ai as the sepulchral vision came closer and closer and arid the staccato nto thud or of gho aly fo to berame audi ble that courage abich Is of 0 the soul ratter than the luicle lood flood ed richard like a wave tor for lacy aa and for or he breathed clenching and polaina the slim rapier in its tl hand in the weira elrd light ha to discerned blood str from a the severed necks of the six steeds heard beard and aw saw estover Gea 0 tover maniac ina laahs hl bick lck ed a were reaching up to tent ana rit trample him from his mount it seemed ai as it if someone else shouted loudly 11 haiti AItt pe conet nii tard vies a alone in the moon light greate er waa was gone neer to return all the village folk wor war eh all ped him and men gilled no more but were r when tie approached and lacy told tic be ch lidren of the bravery of their father |
