Charles Morris
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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How they obtained water was what most puzzled him, but he finally discovered the secret, through the aid of a negro whom the Christians had captured and who escaped from their hands.
The prisoner had learned during his captivity that the church communicated by an underground channel with a spring somewhere without.
This was sought for with diligence and at length found, whereupon the water supply of the garrison was cut off at its source, and a new summons to surrender was made.
There are two stories of what afterwards took place one is that the garrison refused to surrender, and that Magued, deeply exasperated, ordered the church to be set on fire, most of its defenders perishing in the flames.
The other story is a far more romantic one, and perhaps as likely to be true.
This tells us that Pelistes, weary of long waiting for assistance from without, determined to leave the church in search of aid, promising in case of failure, to return and die with his friends.
Mounted on the good steed that he had kept alive in the church, and armed with lance, sword, and shield, the valiant warrior set forth before the dawn, and rode through the silent streets, unseen by sentinel or early wayfarer.
The vision of a Christian knight on horseback was not likely to attract much attention, as there were many renegade Christians with the Moors, brought thither in the train of Count Julian.
Therefore, when the armed warrior presented himself at a gate of the city, just as a foraging party was entering, he rode forth unnoticed in the confusion, and galloped briskly away towards the neighbouring mountains.
Having reached there he stopped to rest, but to his alarm he noticed a horseman in hot pursuit upon his trail.
Spurring his steed onward, Pylistus now made his way into the rough intricacies of the mountain paths.
But unluckily, as he was passing along the edge of a declivity, his horse stumbled and rolled down into the ravine below, so bruising and cutting him in the fall that when he struggled to his feet his face was covered with blood.
While he was in this condition, the pursuer rode up.
It proved to be Magued himself, who had seen him leave the city and had followed in haste.
To his sharp summons for surrender, the good knight responded by drawing his sword.
and wounded and bleeding as he was, put himself in posture for defence.
The fight that followed was as fierce as some of those told of King Arthur's knights.
Long and sturdily the two champions fought, foot to foot, sword to scimitar, until their shields and armors were rent and hacked, and the ground was red with their blood.
Never had those hills seen so furious a fight by so well matched champions, and during their breathing spells the two knights gazed upon each other with wonder and admiration.
Magwed had never met so able an antagonist before.
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