| Show WHIM OF MONARCH LOST HIM KINGDOM it is not tor for nothing that bath room windows are usually provided with frosted glass david peeking at bath catli shelba had trouble enough with nathan but his dIfficult difficulties les were largely of a spiritual nature and lie he bore up under them splendidly roderick ling king of the was no more guilty but his curiosity wrecked a kingdom roderick spied a very pretty girl in the pool of the walled garden where his queens waiting women took the air and asserted his royal prerogative the girl told her father count julian who held tangier for the gothic king julian was vexed find and took counsel with tarik the arab chieftain in those parts tarik crossed the straits to land on the peninsula whose name gibraltar perpetuates his memory and julian drew to his support the sons of litiza whom roderick had displaced the combined forces of the arabs and the malcontents met the at Guad alete on the and crushed them utterly roderick was drowned in the bloodstained blood stained waters as he fled and the waie wae of saracen conquest rolled to the pyrenees Pyre nees and beyond there Is no record of the fate of julians daughter but julians revenge served to till fill the slave markets of the east with blood blond beauties find it Is not unlikely that she bile was among them julian distressed by the completeness of his revenge took ills his own life it nas as more than seven and three quarters centuries before the moslems were expelled from spain I 1 S metcalf in the cleveland plain dealer |
