Chapter 14 DEFENCE TILL DEATH.

It was two o'clock before the look-out from the castle discerned the approach of the pirates, and then all was activity. Carlo, having no fears, and being, besides, well rested and fed, was all eagerness for the first encounter. But Do?a Elena had asked him to accompany her into the church built within the palisade; and there, kneeling down, both b