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might well astonish him: “You alive and quite

in health; you whom 1 saw slain in that battle?”“ Know,” replied the other, “ that those who fightfor Christ, never die.” “ But why are you cladin that dazzling beam ? ” At which his companionpointed up to the sky, where stood a palace ofcrystal and diamonds. “ It is there I dwell, andto it owe the beauty that so surprises you. But,for you likewise, is a still more beautiful palaceprepared, which you will come to enjoy veryshortly. Farewell! We meet again to-morrow!”And the apparition returned to heaven. The restwas reality. For in he called the priests, receivedthe last sacraments, and, though perfectly well, tookleave of his friends. And in a sadden skirmish,early the next day, was struck in the forehead;“ so went,” says the chronicle, “ to that fine palace.”It was certainly necessary for the counts andbarons of the crusade to keep the minds of theirsoldiery exalted to the utmost, in order to ac-complish what still awaited them; else their ownauthority alone would have never had weightenough. The rather that doubts began to ariseregarding several of the past miracles; particularlythe lance advocated by a person of dissolutemanners, though well versed in letters. TheFatimite Caliph, though hating the Franks as