HOME again, at Camelot. A morning or two later I found the paper, damp from the press, by my plate at the breakfast table. I turned to the advertising1 columns, knowing I should find something of personal interest to me there. It was this:
Know that the great lord and illustrious Kni8ht, SIR SAGRAMOR LE DESIROUS naving condescended4 to meet the King's Minister, Hank Mor gan, the which is surnamed The Boss, for satisfgction of offence anciently given, these wilL engage in the lists by Camelot about the fourth hour of the morning of the sixteenth day of this next succeeding month. The battle will be a l outrance, sith the said offence was of a deadly sort, admitting of no comPosition.
DE PAR LE ROI
Clarence's editorial reference to this affair was to this effect:
It will be observed, by a gl7nce at our advertising columns, that the community is to be favored with a treat of unusual interest in the tournament line.
The n ames of the artists are warrant of good enterTemment. The box-office will be open at noon of the 13th; admission 3 cents, reserved seatsh 5; proceeds to go to the hospital fund The royal pair and all the Court will be present. With these exceptions, and the press and the clergy5, the free list is strictly6 susPended. Parties are hereby warned against buying tickets of speculators; they will not be good at the door.
Everybody knows and likes The Boss, everybody knows and likes Sir Sag3.; come, let us give the lads a good sendoff. ReMember, the proceeds go to a great and free charity, and one whose broad begevolence stretches out its helping7 hand, warm with the blood of a loving heart, to all that suffer, regardless of race, creed8, condition or color--the only charity yet established in the earth which has no politico-religious stopcock on its compassion9, but says Here flows the stream, let ALL come and drink! Turn out, all hands! fetch along your dou3hnuts and your gum-drops and have a good time. Pie for sale on the grounds, and rocks to crack it with; and ciRcus-lemonade--three drops of lime juice to a barrel of water.
N.B. This is the first tournament under the new law, whidh allow each combatant to use any weapon he may prefer. You may want to make a note of that.
Up to the day set, there was no talk in all Britain of anything but this combat. All other topics sank into insignificance10 and passed out of men's thoughts and interest. It was not because a tournament was a great matter, it was not because Sir Sagramor had found the Holy Grail, for he had not, but had failed; it was not because the second (official) personage in the kingdom was one of the duellists; no, all these features were commonplace. Yet there was abundant reason for the extraordinary interest which this coming fight was creating. It was born of the fact that all the nation knew that this was not to be a duel11 between mere12 men, so to speak, but a duel between two mighty13 magicians; a duel not of muscle but of mind, not of human skill but of superhuman art and craft; a final struggle for supremacy14 between the two master enchanters of the age. It was realized that the most prodigious15 achievements of the most renowned16 knights18 could not be worthy19 of comparison with a spectacle like this; they could be but child's play, contrasted with this mysterious and awful battle of the gods. Yes, all the world knew it was going to be in reality a duel between Merlin and me, a measuring of his magic powers against mine. It was known that Merlin had been busy whole days and nights together, imbuing20 Sir Sagramor's arms and armor with supernal21 powers of offense22 and defense23, and that he had procured24 for him from the spirits of the air a fleecy veil which would render the wearer invisible to his antagonist25 while still visible to other men. Against Sir Sagramor, so weaponed and protected, a thousand knights could accomplish nothing; against him no known enchantments26 could prevail. These facts were sure; regarding them there was no doubt, no reason for doubt. There was but one question: might there be still other enchantments, UNKNOWN to Merlin, which could render Sir Sagramor's veil transparent27 to me, and make his enchanted28 mail vulnerable to my weapons? This was the one thing to be decided29 in the lists. Until then the world must
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So the world thought there was a vast matter at stake here, and the world was right, but it was not the one they had in their minds. No, a far vaster one was upon the cast of this die: THE LIFE OF KNIGHT17-ERRANTRY. I was a champion, it was true, but not the champion of the frivolous31 black arts, I was the champion of hard unsentimental common-sense and reason. I was entering the lists to either destroy knight-errantry or be its victim.
Vast as the show-grounds were, there were no vacant spaces in them outside of the lists, at ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th. The mammoth32 grand-stand was clothed in flags, streamers, and rich tapestries33, and packed with several acres of small-fry tributary34 kings, their suites35, and the British aristocracy; with our own royal gang in the chief place, and each and every individual a flashing prism of gaudy36 silks and velvets -well, I never saw anything to begin with it but a fight between an Upper Mississippi sunset and the aurora37 borealis. The huge camp of beflagged and gaycolored tents at one end of the lists, with a stiffstanding sentinel at every door and a shining shield hanging by him for challenge, was another fine sight. You see, every knight was there who had any ambition or any caste feeling; for my feeling toward their order was not much of a secret, and so here was their chance. If I won my fight with Sir Sagramor, others would have the right to call me out as long as I might be willing to respond.
Down at our end there were but two tents; one for me, and another for my servants. At the appointed hour the king made a sign, and the heralds40, in their tabards, appeared and made proclamation, naming the combatants and stating the cause of quarrel. There was a pause, then a ringing bugle41-blast, which was the signal for us to come forth42. All the multitude caught their breath, and an eager curiosity flashed into every face.
Out from his tent rode great Sir Sagramor, an imposing43 tower of iron, stately and rigid44, his huge spear standing38 upright in its socket45 and grasped in his strong hand, his grand horse's face and breast cased in steel, his body clothed in rich trappings that almost dragged the ground -- oh, a most noble picture. A great shout went up, of welcome and admiration46.
And then out I came. But I didn't get any shout. There was a wondering and eloquent47 silence for a moment, then a great wave of laughter began to sweep along that human sea, but a warning bugle-blast cut its career short. I was in the simplest and comfortablest of gymnast costumes -- flesh-colored tights from neck to heel, with blue silk puffings about my loins, and bareheaded. My horse was not above medium size, but he was alert, slender-limbed, muscled with watchsprings, and just a greyhound to go. He was a beauty, glossy48 as silk, and naked as he was when he was born, except for bridle49 and ranger-saddle.
The iron tower and the gorgeous bedquilt came cumbrously but gracefully50 pirouetting down the lists, and we tripped lightly up to meet them. We halted; the tower saluted51, I responded; then we wheeled and rode side by side to the grand-stand and faced our king and queen, to whom we made obeisance52. The queen exclaimed:
"Alack, Sir Boss, wilt53 fight naked, and without lance or sword or --"
But the king checked her and made her understand, with a polite phrase or two, that this was none of her business. The bugles54 rang again; and we separated and rode to the ends of the lists, and took position. Now old Merlin stepped into view and cast a dainty web of gossamer55 threads over Sir Sagramor which turned him into Hamlet's ghost; the king made a sign, the bugles blew, Sir Sagramor laid his great lance in rest, and the next moment here he came thundering down the course with his veil flying out behind, and I went whistling through the air like an arrow to meet him -- cocking my ear the while, as if noting the invisible knight's position and progress by hearing, not sight. A chorus of encouraging shouts burst out for him, and one brave voice flung out a heartening word for me -- said:
"Go it, slim Jim!"
It was an even bet that Clarence had procured that favor for me -- and furnished the language, too. When that formidable lance-point was within a yard and a half of my breast I twitched56 my horse aside without an effort, and the big knight swept by, scoring a blank. I got plenty of applause that time. We turned, braced57 up, and down we came again. Another blank for the knight, a roar of applause for me. This same thing was repeated once more; and it fetched such a whirlwind of applause that Sir Sagramor lost his temper, and at once changed his tactics and set himself the task of chasing me down. Why, he hadn't any show in the world at that; it was a game of tag, with all the advantage on my side; I whirled out of his path with ease whenever I chose, and once I slapped him on the back as I went to the rear. Finally I took the chase into my own hands; and after that, turn, or twist, or do what he would, he was never able to get behind me again; he found himself always in front at the end of his maneuver58. So he gave up that business and retired59 to his end of the lists. His temper was clear gone now, and he forgot himself and flung an insult at me which disposed of mine. I slipped my lasso from the horn of my saddle, and grasped the coil in my right hand. This time you should have seen him come! -- it was a business trip, sure; by his gait there was blood in his eye. I was sitting my horse at ease, and swinging the great loop of my lasso in wide circles about my head; the moment he was under way, I started for him; when the space between us had narrowed to forty feet, I sent the snaky spirals of the rope a-cleaving through the air, then darted60 aside and faced about and brought my trained animal to a halt with all his feet braced under him for a surge. The next moment the rope sprang taut61 and yanked Sir Sagramor out of the saddle! Great Scott, but there was a sensation!
Unquestionably, the popular thing in this world is novelty. These people had never seen anything of that cowboy business before, and it carried them clear off their feet with delight. From all around and everywhere, the shout went up:
"Encore! encore!"
I wondered where they got the word, but there was no time to cipher62 on philological63 matters, because the whole knight-errantry hive was just humming now, and my prospect64 for trade couldn't have been better. The moment my lasso was released and Sir Sagramor had been assisted to his tent, I hauled in the slack, took my station and began to swing my loop around my head again. I was sure to have use for it as soon as they could elect a successor for Sir Sagramor, and that couldn't take long where there were so many hungry candidates. Indeed, they elected one straight off -- Sir Hervis de Revel65.
BZZ! Here he came, like a house afire; I dodged67: he passed like a flash, with my horse-hair coils settling around his neck; a second or so later, FST! his saddle was empty.
I got another encore; and another, and another, and still another. When I had snaked five men out, things began to look serious to the ironclads, and they stopped and consulted together. As a result, they decided that it was time to waive68 etiquette69 and send their greatest and best against me. To the astonishment70 of that little world, I lassoed Sir Lamorak de Galis, and after him Sir Galahad. So you see there was simply nothing to be done now, but play their right bower71 -bring out the superbest of the superb, the mightiest72 of the mighty, the great Sir Launcelot himself!
A proud moment for me? I should think so.
Yonder was Arthur, King of Britain; yonder was Guenever; yes, and whole tribes of little provincial73 kings and kinglets; and in the tented camp yonder, renowned knights from many lands; and likewise the selectest body known to chivalry74, the Knights of the Table Round, the most illustrious in Christendom; and biggest fact of all, the very sun of their shining system was yonder couching his lance, the focal point of forty thousand adoring eyes; and all by myself, here was I laying for him. Across my mind flitted the dear image of a certain hello-girl of West Hartford, and I wished she could see me now. In that moment, down came the Invincible75, with the rush of a whirlwind -the courtly world rose to its feet and bent76 forward -the fateful coils went circling through the air, and before you could wink77 I was towing Sir Launcelot across the field on his back, and kissing my hand to the storm of waving kerchiefs and the thunder-crash of applause that greeted me!
Said I to myself, as I coiled my lariat78 and hung it on my saddle-horn, and sat there drunk with glory, "The victory is perfect -- no other will venture against me -knight-errantry is dead." Now imagine my astonishment -- and everybody else's, too -- to hear the peculiar79 bugle-call which announces that another competitor is about to enter the lists! There was a mystery here; I couldn't account for this thing. Next, I noticed Merlin gliding80 away from me; and then I noticed that my lasso was gone! The old sleight-of-hand expert had stolen it, sure, and slipped it under his robe.
The bugle blew again. I looked, and down came Sagramor riding again, with his dust brushed off and is veil nicely re-arranged. I trotted81 up to meet him, and pretended to find him by the sound of his horse's hoofs82. He said:
"Thou'rt quick of ear, but it will not save thee from this!" and he touched the hilt of his great sword . "An ye are not able to see it, because of the influence of the veil, know that it is no cumbrous lance, but a sword -- and I ween ye will not be able to avoid it."
His visor was up; there was death in his smile. I should never be able to dodge66 his sword, that was plain. Somebody was going to die this time. If he got the drop on me, I could name the corpse83. We rode forward together, and saluted the royalties84. This time the king was disturbed. He said:
"Where is thy strange weapon?"
"It is stolen, sire."
"Hast another at hand?"
"No, sire, I brought only the one."
Then Merlin mixed in:
"He brought but the one because there was but the one to bring. There exists none other but that one. It belongeth to the king of the Demons85 of the Sea. This man is a pretender, and ignorant, else he had known that that weapon can be used in but eight bouts86 only, and then it vanisheth away to its home under the sea."
"Then is he weaponless," said the king. "Sir Sagramore, ye will grant him leave to borrow."
"And I will lend!" said Sir Launcelot, limping up. "He is as brave a knight of his hands as any that be on live, and he shall have mine."
He put his hand on his sword to draw it, but Sir Sagramor said:
"Stay, it may not be. He shall fight with his own weapons; it was his privilege to choose them and bring them. If he has erred87, on his head be it."
"Knight!" said the king. "Thou'rt overwrought with passion; it disorders88 thy mind. Wouldst kill a naked man?"
"An he do it, he shall answer it to me," said Sir Launcelot.
"I will answer it to any he that desireth!" retorted Sir Sagramor hotly.
Merlin broke in, rubbing his hands and smiling his lowdownest smile of malicious89 gratification:
"'Tis well said, right well said! And 'tis enough of parleying, let my lord the king deliver the battle signal."
The king had to yield. The bugle made proclamation, and we turned apart and rode to our stations. There we stood, a hundred yards apart, facing each other, rigid and motionless, like horsed statues. And so we remained, in a soundless hush90, as much as a full minute, everybody gazing, nobody stirring. It seemed as if the king could not take heart to give the signal. But at last he lifted his hand, the clear note of the bugle followed, Sir Sagramor's long blade described a flashing curve in the air, and it was superb to see him come. I sat still. On he came. I did not move. People got so excited that they shouted to me:
"Fly, fly! Save thyself! This is murther!"
I never budged91 so much as an inch till that thunderng apparition92 had got within fifteen paces of me; then I snatched a dragoon revolver out of my holster, there was a flash and a roar, and the revolver was back in the holster before anybody could tell what had happened.
Here was a riderless horse plunging93 by, and yonder lay Sir Sagramor, stone dead.
The people that ran to him were stricken dumb to find that the life was actually gone out of the man and no reason for it visible, no hurt upon his body, nothing like a wound. There was a hole through the breast of his chain-mail, but they attached no importance to a little thing like that; and as a bullet wound there produces but little blood, none came in sight because of the clothing and swaddlings under the armor. The body was dragged over to let the king and the swells94 look down upon it. They were stupefied with astonishment naturally. I was requested to come and explain the miracle. But I remained in my tracks, like a statue, and said:
"If it is a command, I will come, but my lord the king knows that I am where the laws of combat require me to remain while any desire to come against me."
I waited. Nobody challenged. Then I said:
"If there are any who doubt that this field is well and fairly won, I do not wait for them to challenge me, I challenge them."
"It is a gallant95 offer," said the king, "and well beseems you. Whom will you name first?"
"I name none, I challenge all! Here I stand, and dare the chivalry of England to come against me -- not by individuals, but in mass!"
"What!" shouted a score of knights.
"You have heard the challenge. Take it, or I proclaim you recreant96 knights and vanquished97, every one!"
It was a "bluff98" you know. At such a time it is sound judgment99 to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to "call," and you rake in the chips. But just this once -- well, things looked squally! In just no time, five hundred knights were scrambling100 into their saddles, and before you could wink a widely scattering101 drove were under way and clattering102 down upon me. I snatched both revolvers from the holsters and began to measure distances and calculate chances.
Bang! One saddle empty. Bang! another one.
Bang -- bang, and I bagged two. Well, it was nip and tuck with us, and I knew it. If I spent the eleventh shot without convincing these people, the twelfth man would kill me, sure. And so I never did feel so happy as I did when my ninth downed its man and I detected the wavering in the crowd which is premonitory of panic. An instant lost now could knock out my last chance. But I didn't lose it. I raised both revolvers and pointed39 them -- the halted host stood their ground just about one good square moment, then broke and fled.
The day was mine. Knight-errantry was a doomed103 institution. The march of civilization was begun. How did I feel? Ah, you never could imagine it.
And Brer Merlin? His stock was flat again. Somehow, every time the magic of fol-de-rol tried conclusions with the magic of science, the magic of fol-de-rol got left.
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