eee, Dante | on te i . Scott ‘Wor vids he ap Tie2 CLASSICS Slustrated DME, NIGHT, A GROUP OF NORMANS ON THEIR WAY TO A GREAT. TOURNAMENT SOUGHT SHELTER, THEY INCLUDED SIR BRIAN DE BOIS-GUILBERT, A:MEMBER OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, AN ORDER OF KNIGHTS FOUNDED DURING THE CRUSADES. / esl TELL ME, SLAVE, ARE WE STAY ON THIS PATH TILL YOU fig NEAR THE DWELLING OF COME TO A SUNKEN CROSS. CEDRIC THE SAXON ? THEN TAKE THE PATH | PTO THE LEFT. ‘AYE, FRIEND GURTH. THIS CEDRIC IS A PROUD, FIERCE WISE DIRECTION, THEY SHOULD HAVE MAN. HE IS SO PROUD OF HIS WAMBA, THEY WiLL KNOWN BETTER BEING A SAXON THAT HE_IS HARDLY, REACH OUR }| THAN TO TAKE THE UNIVERSALLY CALLED CEDRIC MASTER'S DWELLING }| COUNSEL OF A THE SAXON. THIS. NIGHT. FOOL, > SHALL EXPECT MUCH BEAUTY IN HIS BE CAREFUL OF HOW YOU LOOK ON CELEBRATED WARD, ROWENA, TO ROWENA. IT IS SAID CEDRIC BANISHED COUNTERBALANCE THE COMPANY OF SUCH HIS ONLY SON, WILFRED OF IVANHOE, mA TRAITOROUS CHURL FOR LOOKING WITH AFFECTION ON HER. . NOW IVANHOE FIGHTS WITH KING is PAS x Mean IN THE CRUSADESPERHAPS THAT MAN AT THE bg //A FOOT OF THE CROSS CAN HERE IS THE Sl _ CROSS. HE BID TURN TO THE LEFT. WHICH 1S THE JM I MYSELF AM BOUND ROAD TO THE THITHER, IF I HAD A DWELLING OF HORSE I WOULD BE | } CEDRIC THE YOUR GUIDE, FOR THE WHO AND SAXON ? WHAT ARE * a pilgrim who hod visited verious sacred places in Jerusalem HERE (S THE DWELLING OF F CEDRIC THETHE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, WHO ARE SWORN TO CHAMPION THE WHO NOW BEAR: THEMSELVES BEST IN. PALESTINE? I_MYSELF SAW THEE, SIR TEMPLAR, CAST| TO THE GROUND BY A SAXON KNIGHT IN ‘A TOURNAMENT. I_ PROMISE YOU, SIR NAME OF THE B) OF IVANHOE. WERE k TEMPLAR, IVANHOE GALLANT KNIGHT? J HE IN ENGLAND NOW, WILL SOMEDAY 4] I WOULD CHALLENGE ACCEPT YOUR HIM TO MEET ME CHALLENGE WHAT WAS THE IT_WAS THE KNIGHT heIVANHO! AT THAT MOMENT, 4 NEW GUEST WAS ANNOUNCED. ADMIT HIM, BE HE WHO OR WHAT HE MAY. ye AN UNBELIEVING JEWS YOU WILL ADMIT HIM j| TO OUR PRESENCE? _§ ISAAC OF YORK, A MERCHANT JEW, SEEKS SHELTER FOR TI WHEN THE JEW LEAVES IN THE MORNING, CARRY HIM TO THE CASTLE OF REGINALD FRONT-DE-BOEUF. WE SHALL HAVE RICH RANSOM FOR HIS WORTHLESS SKIN.6 CLASSICS Selustratod Ee THE NEXT MORNING, THE PALMER SLIPPED INTO ISAAC'S ROOM. "| AWAKE, ISAAC. FEAR NOTHING FROM ME I COME AS YOUR FRIEND. Sh THE TEMPLAR PLANS TO SEIZE YOU FOR RANSOM. YOU MUST es FOLLOW ME. I WILL HELP YOU TO ESCAPE BY GUIDING YOU ALONG THE SECRET PATHS IN THE FOREST. ATER, WHEN THEY WERE 4 SAFE DISTANCE FROM THE CASTLE. THAT, I WILL GRANT THEE THY DEAREST WISH, WHICH IS FOR A HORSE AND ARMOUR FOR THE COMING TOURNAMENT. ‘AS YOU STOOPED OVER MY BED, I. SAW THAT THY PALMER'S GOWN HIDES A KNIGHT'S ARMOUR. TAKE THIS NOTE TO MY KINSMAN NEARBY. f THOU SPEAKEST| | HE WILL FURNISH THEE FOR THE TRUE, ISAAC. COMING TOURNAMENT. WHAT FIENDAMONG THE SPECTATORS. WERE CEDRIC THOU8H ROWENA LOVED IVANHOE, CEDRIC ‘AND ROWEWA. WITH THEM WAS ‘D HER TO MAl ONE DAY RULE ENGLAND. [ ARE you NoT TEMPTED ) {IT IS NOT TO JOIN THESE KNIGHTS, My LORD? FOR ME a eA 1D PLEOGEL RY ATHELSTANE, A DESCENDANT OF THE Ly ATHELSTANE, WHO CEDRIC HOPED WOULD [SAAC OF YORK Was ALSO THERE, WITH HIS DAUGHTER, REBECCA GA YONDER vEwess Is([1é, SIGNAL WAS GIVEN FOR THE TOURNAMENT TO BEGIN. FIVE NORMAN KNIGHTS, LED BY SE ORVAN DE BOIS SURBERT COMLLEVOG TE FIELD. FIVE SAXOW RNICHTS Ie ACCEPTED’ a CHALLENGE. Al! THE FLOURISH OF TRUMPETS, THEY STARTED OUT AGAINST EACH OTHER AT FULL GALLOP,IVANHOE TY OF SAXON KNIGHTS TOOK THE FIELD. BUT THEY, TOO, WERE DEFEATED WHEN A SOLITARY TRUMPET ANNOUNCED 4 NEW OPPONENT. THE DAY IS AGAINST US. HIS SHIELD METHINKS IT IS THE YOUNG PALMER WHO SAVED MY LIFE. OUR KINSMAN HATH GIVEN HIM A GOOD HORSE AND NOBLE ARMOUR. DISINHERITED.10 CLASSICS 9lusrated WE DISINHERITED KNIGHT RODE STRAIGHT TO THE TENT OF BOIS-GUILBERT. HE STRUCK THE NORMAN'S SHIELD WITH THE SHARP END OF HIS LANCE wal Bs WE SPECTATORS WERE ASTONISHED AT ARE YOU SO READY TO DIE, SIR THE STRANGER'S DARING. DISINHERITED, THAT YOU PERIL ee YOUR LIFE SO FRANKLY ? IAM FITTER TO MEET THEN LOOK YOUR LAST UPON i DEATH THAN THOU ART, fog@@) THE SUN. THIS NIGHT THOU [Je Sea PROUD. NORMAN SHALT SLEEP IN PARADISE.E OD | PY HEN THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED, THEY RODE: TOWARDS EACH OTHER. THE DISINHERITED KNIGHT IS TRULY A MATCH FOR BOIS-GUILBERT.2 CLASSICS 9 ééistratod =IVANHOE 1s CROWN FOR THE QUEEN OF LOVE AND BEAUTY WAS PLACED UPON THE VICTOR'S = LANCE. THE DISINHERITED KNIGHT RODE TWICE AROUND THE FIELD. LEE >i wurray FoR || ee ‘4 | SIR DISINHERITED / THE CROWN IS YOURS. {QUODENLY, THE DISINHERITED KNIGHT A. SAXON FELL SENSELESS. Z QUEEN /CEDRIC REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE BANISHED IVANH( IVANHOE 1S WOUNDED. WE MUST TAKE HIM WITH US AND CARE FOR HIM. AYE, THE GOOD YourTH MUST NOT DIE AO LATER, B0/S-GULBERT TWICE PasseD| AND REPASSEO THEM, FIXING HIS BOLD x] GLANCE ON’ REBECCA SHE IS — ef | TRULY ie ENS a BEAUTIFULIVANHOE 15 r ATER, THE TEMPLAR MET WITH MAURICE I CARE NOT. I WILL CARRY OFF THE OE BRACY, A NORMAN NOBLE. FAIR ROWENA WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE BRIDE OR HER FAMILY. HER CHURLISH GUARDIAN, CEDRIC, WOULD NOT HEAR OF IT THE SAXON ROWENA IS A FIT QUEEN OF LOVE AND BEAUTY. I WOULD HAVE HER FOR MY WIFE. IT IS A NOBLE PLAN, AND GLADLY WILL WE WILL TAKE OUR FOLLOWERS, SWOOP I AID THEE. CEORIC AND HIS PARTY MUST | | DOWN UPON THEM AND CARRY’ THEM OFF PASS THROUGH THE FOREST AS THEY MAKE| | TO THE CASTLE OF REGINALD FRONT-DE- THEIR WAY BACK TO-THEIR DWELLING. BOEUF, WHERE ROWENA WILL STAY UNTIL 'SHE BE MY BRIDE AS SAXONS. THE BLAME OF THE VIOLENCE WILL REST. WITH THE OUTLAWS - OF THE FORESTS."ERIC AND HIS PARTY, UNAWARE OF ‘DE BRACY'S PLAN, MADE THEIR Way THROUGH THE FOREST. AS THEY JOURNEYED, THEY MET ISAAC AND REBECCA. R) OUR SERVANTS HEARD OF A BAND OF OUTLAWS LYING IN WAIT IN THE FOREST. THEY FLED, LEAVING US ENCELESS, WITH THE LITTER OF A SICK FRIEND. Sie G AY y ? hp \Y } A CLASSICS 9 (ees realoct WOULD IT PLEASE YOU TO PERMIT US igs TO TRAVEL UNDER |g YOUR SAFEGUARD? J ] THE MAN IS OLD AND FEEBLE, THE MAIDEN YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL,’ AND |] THEIR FRIEND SICK AND IN PERIL'OF HIS LIFE. WE CANNOT Leave THEM [if LIKE THIS THEY MAY COME WITH US. TAKE UP THE LITTER AND LET US PROCEED,CLASSICS 9s ocalodt WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS ATTACK? WHO IS IT THAT MAKES PRISONERS IW THESE FORESTS? METHINKS, SIR OUTLAW, THE .FOX SHOULD. KNOW HIS’ CHILDREN. YON VILLAINS WEAR COATS AS LIKE TO THINE OWN AS ONE GREEN PEA POD TO. ANOTHER. I WILL SEE WHO DARES WEAR AN HONEST OUTLAW'S CLOTHING. STIR_NOT FROM THE: PLACE WHERE YE STAND UNTIL -T. HAVE RETURNED. HAVE MINGLED AMONG YON MEN AND HAVE LEARNT THEY BELONG TO MAURICE DE BRACY AND BRIAN DE BOIS-GUILBERT, AND THEY TAKE CEDRIC THE SAXON AND’ HIS PARTY TO THE-CASTLE OF REGINALD FRONT-DE-BOEUF. WE MUST RESCUE OUR MASTER! FOR THREE MEN TO ATTEMPT IT WOULD BE MADNESS. COME WITH ME_UNTIL T GATHER MORE AID.FTER SOME TIME THEY REACHED A SMALL OPENING IN THE FOREST. IT IS.OUR MASTER, ROBIN HOOD, MEN, HONEST SAXONS HAVE BEEN GO NOW AND ‘SEEK YOUR COMPANIONS. SEIZED AND CAPTURED IN THESE COLLECT WHAT FORCE YOU CAN, AND MEET WOODS. WE MUST PREPARE To ME HERE. I GO TO FIND FRIAR TUCK RESCUE THEM 7OPEN, FRIAR? T WOULD WILLINGLY BELIEVE SO. HEAR ME, AND T WILL TELL THEE OF AN ENTERPRISE IN WHICH, IF THOU REALLY BE WHAT THOU. SEEMEST, THOU MAY TAKE AN HONOURABLE PART. p25 OPPRESSORS THEY ALWAYS WERE. AS FOR IT. TWILL AID THIEVES, I DOUBT IF EVER THEY WERE | THEE IN SETTING THE CAPTIVES FREE EVEN HALF SO HONEST AS MANY A THIEF OF MY ACQUAINTANCEWHILE, DE BRACY, BOIS-GUILBERT AND | | 4 HEIR PnISONERS WERE = pote Tat R TONE, THIS FRAY HAS TRUE. T NOW GAINED US GREATER | | HAVE SOMETHING SPOILS THAN WE I CAN TERM EXCLUSIVELY IF YOU ARE A SAXON, I PUT MYSELF UNDER YOUR PROTECTION MEANEST HE IS BUT HALF-PRIZE NO, HIS DAUGHTER, THE LOVELY THOU THE |] I MUST SHARE HIS SPOILS VEWESS REBECCA, SHALL BE MONEY OF | WITH FRONT-DE-BOEUF, MY PRIZE. ISAAC, WHO WILL NOT LEND Us THE JEW? THE USE OF HIS CASTLE r FOR NOTHING.22 CLASSICS Sécatrated WHEN THEY REACHED FRONT-DE-BOEUF'S CASTLE, THE CAPTIVES WERE SEPARATED. (SAAC WAS THROWN INTO A DUNGEON, WHERE 'HE WAS VIS! TED BY FRONT-DE- BOEUF. THOU SHALT PAY ME A THOUSAND [= SILVER POUNDS, OR SUFFER A ML LONG AND LINGERING DEATH. re ROBBER AND VILLAINS T WILL PAY THEE ! ART THOU MAD? HAS |x MY DAUGHTER NOTHING UNLESS MY DAUGHTER IS THY FLESH AND eLooD f} Is. DEARER TO A CHARM AGAINST we THAN MY HEATED IRON. AND Limas, WHICH SCALOING O1L? YRM Try CRUELTY BA Turearens. STRIP HIM AND CHAIN HiM Tie UST THEN A HORN WAS BLOWN THREE DOWN UPON THE BARS. a TIMES, SOMEONE IS AT THE LET THE p06 BE, FOR NOW. I MUST SEE TO THIS INTRUSION"HILE FRONT-DE-BOEUF WAS IN ISAAC'S DUNGEON, FAIR ROWENA, IT IS I THAT MAURICE DE BRACY, NOW i HIS OWN FINERY, AMA PRISONER. I AM WAS WITH ROWENA. CAPTIVE TO THY BEAUTY. WON'T YOU BE SINCE I AM IN THE PRESENCE] SEATED, MY LADY? JM OF MY JAILER, I SHALL I KNOW YOU NOT, REMAIN STANDING TILL I BAA SIR KNIGHT. LEARN-MY DOOM F sy) IAM MAURICE DE BRACY, AND T TELL THEE THOU SHALT NEVER LEAVE THIS CASTLE, OR THOU SHALT LEAVE IT AS MY WIFE. J THEN THE HORN SOUNDED AT THE GATE, OF IVANHOE. BUT KNOW YOU, [ < MUST GO NOW. THINK ON IT-- I WiLL iM I} LAY, THAT HE 1S A ; SAVE IVANHOE IF YOU CONSENT TO BE [fi PRISONER IN THIS CASTLE? MY BRIDE. IF YOU 00 NOT, HE DIES.24 CLASSICS Alestratort T THE SAME TIME THAT DE BRACY THou aRT NO) I AM A TEMPLAR. ENTERED ROWENAS ROOM, REBECCA'S OUTLAW, BUT BEHOLD THE CROSS DOOR OPENED TO ADMIT BOIS- GUILBERT. A NORMAN, | OF MY HOLY ORDER, TAKE THESE JEWELS AND. BE MERCIFUL TO ME AND MY AGED FATHER. p= T_HAVE MADE A VOW TO PREFER BEAUTY TO DAREST THOU MENTION IT, WHEN THOU ART ABOUT To DISHONOUR THY VOWS AS A KNIGHT AND A MAN OF RELIGION ? WELL PREACHED,| QAM I SPIT AT THEE REBECCA. BUT AND I DEFY THEE! THOU ART MY i | CAPTIVE, AND iy ‘SUBJECT TO MY WILL. 'EBECCA THREW OPEN THE WINDOW AND IN AN INSTANT STOOD ON THE PARAPET WITH NOTHING BETWEEN HER AND THE TREMENDOUS DEPTH BELOW.AS BOIS=GUILBERT CAME TOWARDS HER BY REMAIN WHERE THOU ART. WW ADVANCE ONE FOOT NEARER gj AND I WILL PLUNGE MYSELF INTO THE COURTYARD. | A IVANHOE 25 F — COME DOWN, RASH GIRL) 1 SWEAR T WILL OFFER THEE NO OFFENCE. I WILL NOT TRUST THEE, TEMPLAR. T one vou.wy wore 1 WAL Ob THEE) SN tee det Sooke NEBECCA CAME DOWN BUT STOOD NEAR. THE WINDOW. MY WORD. r THOU _NEEDST NO y I FEAR THEE NOT, LONGER FEAR ME. JM) THANKS TO HIM THAT REARED THIS ‘TOWER SO HIGH THAT NONE COULD FALL FROM IT AND LIVE. REBECCA, MINE THOU MUST BE/ BUT IT MUST'BE WITH THINE OWN CONSENT ‘AND ON THINE OWN TERMS. ia'UILBERT, FRONT-DE-BOEUF AND BRACY MET IN THE CASTLE HALL. WHAT IS THE ‘A LETTER HATH BEEN JCAUSE OF THIS MJ DELIVERED ACROSS CURSED pi THE DRAWBRIDGE . CLAMOUR ? WHEN THE PRIEST ARRIVES, WE CAN SEND HIM WITH There are at Vil [you cout Seno Wht Have iT. we wit LEAST 200 FOR HELP, BUT ANSWER THE MEN ASSEMBLED THE MESSENGER [MH CHALLENGE BY . WOULD BE SET SAYING WE WILL i UPON INTHE EXECUTE THE ‘ARE COMING. FOREST. PRISONERS. WE WILL ASK FOR A PRIEST FOR THEM. ‘OUR MESSAGE FOR AID, a MpIVANHOE LET HIM CARRY THE MESSAGE FOR AID. BUT SO HE WILL SUSPECT NOTHING, PERMIT HIM TO CONFESS THE SAXON HOGS. (THE CHALLENGE WAS ANSWERED, SOON. I HAVE COME HITHER TO CONFESS THE PRISONERS. IT IS YOUR AND JESTER TAKE THOU THIS FROCK AND CORD AND MARCH QUIETLY OUT OF THE CASTLE. YOUR PRESENCE WILL ENCOURAGE OUR FRIENDS TO OUR RESCUE. IS THERE ANY PROSPECT, THEN, OF RESCUE ? FIVE HUNDRED MEN_ NOW WAIT WITHOUT. THEN T GO, WE SHALL FIND THE MEANS OF SAVING YE.THOU ART CEDRIC THE IT MATTERS NOT WHO I ‘AM. WHO ARE YOU? THERE IS A FORCE WITHOUT THIS CASTLE. LEAD THEM TO THE ATTACK. WHEN THOU SHALT SEE A RED FLAG WAVE FROM THE EASTERN TURRET, PRESS. THE NORMANS HARD! 1 WILL GIVE THEM MUCH TO WORRY THEM FROM WITHIN CLASSICS Sééeatvcdoct IAM ULRIGA, A SAXON. THE FATHER OF FRONT- DE-BOEUF CAPTURED THIS CASTLE FROM MY FATHER. rc NOW BEGONE, AND |] LEAVE ME TO MY FATE r SINCE THEN I HAVE DWELT IN THESE HALLS--SCORNED AND INSULTED. I HAD NOT THE COURAGE TO DIE, WHICH YOUR PRESENCE. NOW GIVES ME. CARRY THIS SCROLL TO THE CASTLE OF PHILIP DE MALVOISIN COMMANDS SHALL BE OBEYED.ABS SOON AS CEDRIC JOINED THE (— He, WHZZING OF SHAFTS AND MISSILES BESIEGING FORCES, THE ATTACK \— ON BOTH SIDES WAS INTERRUPTED ON TORQUILSTONE BEGAN. ONLY BY THE SHOUTS OF THE MEN.ee. CLASSICS és¢rarcoed JFPRONT=0E-B0EUF AND THE BLACK KNIGHT FOUGHT HAND TO HAND. NA _MOMENT, HE WAS ON HIS FEET. HE SNATCHED AN AXE AND ~ 0 seIVANHOE -BOEUF FELL MORTALLY WOUNDED. Tit, ASSAILANTS WON THE BARRIERS. THEY PRESSED ON TO THE OUTER WALLS, [XE BLACK KNIGHT SPLINTERED.THE féil POSTERN WITH HIS. AXE. T[HE_QUTWORKS WERE WON. NOW ONLY THE MOAT SEPARATED THEM FROM 7 THE CASTLE. SEE, THEY HAVE DESTROYED THE BRIDGE.QPPHE BLACK KNIGHT HAD THE MEN BUILD A FLOATING BRIDGE TO CROSS THE MOAT. ULASSICS Siustraledt = x) ‘TRUE ENGLISH HEARTS, FOLLOW ME BOLDLY ACROSS. LAUNCH THE BRIDGE! 4 WHE BLACK KNIGHT THUNDERED UPON THE GATE OF THE CASTLE WITH WS AXE. ¥ - «WHILE ABOVE HIS HEAD, DE BRACY SOUGHT TO LOOSEN A STONE WHICH WOULD CRUSH HIM AND CEDRIC,SEE YONDER FLAG/ IT IS THE APPOINTED SIGNAL WHICH CEDRIC SPOKE OF. IT MEANS THE NORMANS ARE BESIEGED FROM WITHIN g AS WELL AS WITHOUT. ‘ALL IS_LOST. SOMEONE HAS SET FIRE TO THE CASTLE. TO SAY sof IVANHOE 33 NAY, THE WESTERN SIDE 18 ALL IN FLAMES. T THE SAME MOMENT, B0/S-GUILBERT LEARNED OF THE NEW DANGER. LEAD THY MEN DOWN. WE ‘SHALL DEFEND OURSELVES UNTIL THEY GRANT US pa FAIR QUARTER.Bee CLASSICS Hecadecedet | BRACY AND HIS MEN RUSHED DOWN TO THE GATE AND THREW IT OPEN. DE BRACY HIMSELF FOUGHT WITH THE BLAGK KNIGHT. WEY DEALT EACH OTHER FURIOUS BLOWS. FINALLY YIELD, " I WILL NOT YIELD DE BRACY. To AN UNKNOWN CONQUEROR. "HE KNIGHT SPOKE HIS NAME SOFTLY. auc I YIELD as THY PRISONER, AND I WILL TELL THEE WOULD WISH TO KNOW. WILFRED OF IVANHOE IS WOUNDED AND A PRISONER HERE, AND WILL PERISH IN THE BURNING CASTLE IF HE IS NOT RESCUED. SHOW ME HIS CHAMBER /IVANHOE 35 (AY, THAT MOMENT, IVANHOE WAS NOT ALONE. ULRICA HAD LET REBECCA INTO HIS y CHAMBER TO CARE FOR HiM IN HIS ILLWeSS. | {1 HAVE FOUND THEE, REBECCA! THERE 1S BUT ONE PATH TO SAFETY, T HAVE FLY, REBECCA, AND JMN-T WILL NOT FLY/] | CUT, MY. WAY THROUGH FIFTY DANGERS SAVE: THINE, OWN | WE WILL BE To POINT IT OUT TO 7 LIFE. NOTRING CAN, JIM SAVED OR FOLLOW ME. HELP ME- PERISH TOGETHER. 7 I WILL. NOT FOLLOW THOU SHALI THEE. RATHER WILL NOT CHOOSE I. PERISH_ IN THE 9 i FLAMES THAN oy ACCEPT SAFETY Mg FROM THEE J36 CLASSICS Seicstratort FEW MOMENTS LATER, THE BLACK KNIGHT RESCUE IVANHOE. IF THOU BE A TRUE KNIGHT, } : THINK NOT OF MEW. SAVE: p24) REBECCA! SAVE THE: LADY. ROWENA / IN THEIR FROWEWA, ATHELSTANE, WaMaA AND ISAAC WERE ALSO RESCUED. BY 80s, Gu. BERT RODE OFF WITH. REBECCA. | [He Fre Was. sereavie napoLy THROUGH THE CASTLE WHEN ULRICA, WHO STARTED IT, APPEARED ON A TURRET SINGING A WILD SAXON SONG. '[ VENGEANCE HATH BUT AN HOUR; T ALSO MUST "PERISH!NAY! WE DID BUT HALF THE MY THANKS, ROBIN HOOD, TO THEE AND THY BOLD MEN FOR ‘THE LIFE AND HONOUR YOU HAVE If THE NORMANS DRIVE YE FROM THESE WOODS, REMEMBER I HAVE FORESTS OF MY OWN WHERE YE MAY RANGE 4 IN FREEDOM ey =e THanks, 'EDRIC EXPRESSED HIS GRATITUDE TO THE BLACK KNIGHT. AUXTER CEDRIC'S PARTY HAD GONE, ISAAC ALSO PREPARED TO LEAVE. WE LEAVE FOR OUR HOME. FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, ALL I HAVE IS YOURS. NAME J WHAT BOON YOU WISH. PERHAPS I SHALL SOON. COME, TO ASK SUCH A BOON As WILL PUT: THY wage) SENEROSITY TO THE TEST. MEANWHILE, ‘ADIEU, METHINKS THY DAUGHTER WAS CARRIED OFF TO THE TEMPLARS' CASTLE, TEMPLESTOWE I CANNOT HELP THEE, FOR THE TEMPLARS’ DELIVERY OF THY CHILD. °F ma BUT I WILL GIVE THEE GUIDES TO LEAD THEE THERE TO PLEAD FOR THE SAFEIVANHOE VANHOE HAD BEEN TAKEN TO A PRIORY AFTER HIS RESCUE FROM THE BURNING CASTLE. LATER THAT aAY WE GO TO SEE THY SAXON KINDRED, BUT THOU SHOULDST NOT TRAVEL UNTIL_THY WOUND : - 1S HEALED. IT 1S HEALED. T FEEL MYSELF ABLE TO ENOURE THE JOURNEY. S. THEY. ENTERED THE CASTLE RAP THY MANTLE AROUND wi THY FACE. 00 NOT PRESENT 39 YOU PROMISED FOR THE 7 SERVICE I RENDERED YOU, TO GRANT ME A IT 1S GRANTED BEFORE IT IS Dy FIRST, LET ME TELL YOU WHO I BLACK KNIGHT. HAVE KNOWN ME ONLY AS THE AM, wow ue now aNOW TO My BOON, Z REQUIRE OF THEE, aS FATHER/ GRANT ME ALMAN. OF THY TO FORGIVE THE’ vl THY FORGIVENESS / GOOD KNIGHT, viento OF IVANHOE . (GERIG, THE LADY ROWENA CARES NOT ME. SHE LOVES IVANHOE. I RENOUNCE HER IN FAVOR OF IVANHOE.MA AGE, ISAC HAD ARRIVED AT TEMPLESTOWE TO FIND. BOIS-GUILBERT. INSTEAD, HE WAS TAKEN BEFORE THE GRAND MASTER OF THE TEMPLARS. WHAT IS THY BUSINESS MY DAUGHTER, WITH BOIS-GUILBERT? REBECCA, IS BEING HELD. HERE AS HIS PRISONER. THROW THIS MAN OUT. SHOOT HIM DEAD IF HE COMES AGAIN. W[0EN HE SENT FoR THE PRESIDENT OF TEMPLESTOWE. WHY HAVE YOU ALLOWED BROTHER |) BOIS-GUILBERT TO BRING A WOMAN INTO. THIS_HOl I THINK THIS WOMAN IS A SORCERESS. } SHE HATH BEWITCHED OUR BROTHER BOIS-GUILBERT. WHE PRESIOENT SAW THAT HE AND 50IS-GUILBERT WOULD BE RUINED ‘UNLESS HE COULD EXPLAIN. \F I HAVE SINNED IN RECEIVING HER HERE, \T WAS _IN THE. ERRING THOUGHT THAT T MIGHT THUS BREAK OFF OUR BROTHER'S WILD AND UNNATURAL DEVOTION TO HER. a r A SORCERESS/ THE WITCH MUST BE JUDGED AND CONDEMNED! PREPARE THE CASTLE HALL FOR THE TRIAL.I SAVED HER LIFE. I WAS THE BUTT OF A HUNDRED ARROWS, BUT I ONLY USED. MY SHIELD TO PROTECT HER. THUS, OID I ENDURE FOR HER AND NOW SHE UPBRAIDS ME THAT I DID NOT LEAVE SHER TO PERISH. I THINK T WAS RIGHT WHEN TOLD THE MASTER SHE HATH CAST A SPELL OVER YOU. I COULD NOT HELP.IT-~HE KNEW ALREADY. BUT YOU ARE SAFE IF YOU RENOUNCE REBECCA. HE BELIEVES SHE IS A SORCERESS AND MUST SUFFER AS SUCH r SHE MUST AND WILL. NEITHER YOU. NOR TO ORDER THE HALL PREPARED ANYONE ELSE CAN SAVE HER, I GO NOWFREBECCA Was TRIED AND QUICKLY CONDEMNED TO BE BURNED AS A WITCH. THERE IS YET ONE CHANCE OF LIFE LEFT \oo TO ME. I CHALLENGE THE PRIVILEGE OF TRIAL BY COMBAT. INDER TRIAL BY COMBAT, REBECCA COULD DEMAND A CHAMPION TO ENGAGE IN COMBAT WITH A TEMPLAR. (T WAS BELIEVED THAT DURING THE BATTLE, GOD WOULD AID THE JUST CAUSE, IF REBECCA'S. CHAMPION WON, IT WOULD MEAN SHE WAS INNOCENT. I WILL BE REBECCA'S Bor I feed BROTHER BOIS-GUILBERT, THOU WILT DO BATTLE FOR THE TEMPLARS. WE DOUBT. NOT BUT THAT RIGHT WILL TRIUMPH. aay FIND A CHAMPION. FATHER TELLING HIM WHAT HAD "EBECCA WAS GIVEN THREE DAYS TO NO REBECCA SENT A MESSAGE TO HER GOD WILL RAISE ME UP A CHAMPION. I PUT b MY TRUST IN_ HIM. gS THERE 1S BUT ONE WHO MIGHT BEAR ARMSDAY FOR THE TRIAL BY COMBAT ARRIVED. REBECCA WAS TAKEN TO A Bos Guise RELUCTANTLY TOOK HIS: PLACE IN THE LISTS. HERE STANDETH THE GOOD KNIGHT BRIAN DE_BOIS-GUILBERT, READY TO D0 BATTLE ILL DEFEND REBECCA. "HE TRUMPETS SOUNDED BUT NO CHAMPION APPEARED. WE WILL WAIT UNTIL THE SHADOWS BE CAST FROM THE WEST TO THE EASTWARD. IF NO CHAMPION APPEARS, REBECCA WILL, At [ MOUNT THEE BEHIND ME tempter, ¥ BEGONE!’ ON MY STEEO, AND WE WILL FLY FROM THIS |S THE TIME PASSED, NO ONE BELIEVED A CHAMPION WOULD APPEAR FOR REBECCA, SUDDENLY ‘A CHAMPION ‘A CHAMPION / UT THE KNIGHT'S HORSE APPEARED TO REEL FROM FATIGUE, AND THE RIDER, EITHER FROM WEAKNESS. OR WEARINESS, SEEMED SCARCE ABLE TO SUPPORT HIMSELF WW THE SADDLE.TAM WILFRED OF IVANHOE. T AM COME_HITHER TO SUSTAIN WITH LANCE AND SWORD THE JUST QUARREL OF REBECCA AGAINST SIR BRIAN DE BOIS-GUILBERT, A TRAITOR, MURDERER ANO LIAR PROUD TEMPLAR, HAST THOU FORGOTTEN THAT TWICE DIDST THOU FALL BEFORE THIS LANCE? REMEMBER THY PROUD BOAST IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE THAT THOU WOULOST 0 BATTLE WITH ME? I WILL NOT FIGHT WITH THEE AT PRESENT, GET THY WOUNDS HEALED, AND GET THEE A BETTER HORSE. DOG OF A SAXONS PREPARE FOR THY DEATHCLASSICS cs radoct TH. WEARIEO HORSE OF IVANHOE, AND 17S. NO LESS. EXHAUSTED RIDER, WENT DOWN. BBY B01S- GUL BERT, THOUGH HE HAD BARELY BEEN. TOUCHED, ALSO FELL.IVANHOE, IT THE TEMPLAR: OID: NOT ANSWER. THIS IS INDEED THE JUDGMENT OF GOD. I PRONOUNCE REBECCA FREE ‘AND GUILTLESS. OME TIME LATER, REBECCA AND ISAAC LEFT ENGLAND.” REBECCA SPENT THE REST OF HER LIFE IN GQ0D WORKS—~ TENDING THE SICK, FEEDING THE HUNGRY AND RELIEVING THE DISTRESSED, ND IWANHOE AND ROWENA WERE MARRED. “KING RICHARD HIMSELF ATTENDED, AS WELL AS BOTH NORMANS AND SAXONS. IT WAS THE SIGN OF THE FUTURE PEACE AND HARMONY THAT WOULD EXIST BETWEEN THE TWO RACES. NOW THAT YOU.HAVE READ THE CLASSICS ilustrated EDITION, DON'T MISS THE ADDED ENJOYMENT OF READING THE ORIGINAL, OBTAINABLE AT YOUR SCHOOL OR PUBLIC LIBRARY.SIR WALTER SCOTT ‘THE PEAK of his career, Sir Walter Scott ‘was the most popu- lar wri of his day. His works were so impatient- ly awaited in this country that the first sheets of each novel were rushed into print in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania while the last pages were being finished in Edinburgh, Scotland. Then the first batch of 2,000 copies was |. fushed on horseback from Philadelphia to New York a scarce thirty-six hours after the ter had received the last sheet. + Scott was a sensation, not only in America, “but all over Europe. It was said that in Bes “Germany everyone went to bed with Waverly junder'the pillow and read Rob Roy while “sipping the morning chocolate. | This literary lion was born in Edinburgh in 1771. When he was eighteen months old, he suffered an attack of polio and lost the se of his right leg, Scott’s parents sent him to his grandfather's home to recover. One of ‘Scott's earliest recollections of childhood was. ying on the floor in the skin of a freshly killed “sheep, being coaxed by his grandfather to | crawl, In spite of his deformity, Scott spent much time outdoors and he grew to be physically | active and able. When he was fifteen, he was ‘apprenticed to his father, an attorney. He "himself became a lawyer at the age of twenty- | one, It was at this time that Scott, whom the law interested very little, began to divide his life into distinct halves. There was a place for business and there was a place for the creative work he enjoyed. At the age of twenty-six, Scott met and married a French girl, Charlotte Charpentier. Shortly afterward, he began to publish his fee es As time passed, Scott acquired various political and» judicial appointments which provided him with an income and left him time to write. His first novel, Waverly, was published in 1814. A number of books soon followed, including Guy Mannering and Rob Roy. In 1820, his greatest success, Ivanhoe, appeared. Scott’s novels immediately became the rage the world over. They had romance, action, and were able to present dry historical events in terms of living human beings, Actu- ally, Scott was the father of the modern historical novel. In 1820, Scott was dubbed Sir Walter. The writer was enchanted by royalty, and when King George IV of England visited Scotland in 1822, Scott was on the welcoming commit- tee. At one point, the King, delighted by. Scott's wit, called for brandy to drink his. health, Sir Walter, ,thrilled by’ this honor, asked that the King’s glass be given him as a souvenir of the occasion, Scott reverently wrapped the glass in a kerchief and put it into his back pocket, Some time later, he sat down + heavily on a chair. He rose immediately with a scream. When not writing, Scott’s major interest was his estate, Abbotsford. It was a hundred acre tract of land on the Tweed River, and from time to time Scott added to it until it ‘was one of the largest in the countryside, But his dreams of living in his castle, as a feudal knight out of Ivanhoe, perhaps, were not to be fulfilled. For Abbotsford was his downfall. He spent wildly for improvements and when, in 1826, a publishing firm in which he had @ major interest collapsed, Scott went bankrupt. Sir Walter spent the rest of his life work- ing to pay his creditors. In less than two years after the bankruptcy; Scott published six books, including The Life of Napoleon Bona- parte in nine -volumes. Scott worked at feverish pace. The strain wore him down and his health declined rapidly. In 1832, Sir Walter died at Abbotsford.