imperious signals, hailed him instantly and loudly by his name.

Dick leaped upon and shook the drunkard furiously.

Beast!" he hissed--"beast and no man! It is worse than treachery to be

so witless. We may all be shent for thy sotting."

But Lawless only laughed and staggered, and tried to clap young Shelton

on the back.

And just then Dick's quick ear caught a rapid brushing in the arras. He

leaped towards the sound, and the next moment a piece of the wall-hanging

had been torn down, and Dick and the spy were sprawling together in its

folds. Over and over they rolled, grappling for each other's throat, and

still baffled by the arras, and still silent in their deadly fury. But

Dick was by much the stronger, and soon the spy lay prostrate under his

knee, and, with a single stroke of the long poniard, ceased to breathe.

The Black Arrow