t means of expelling the Danes.
William the Conqueror, in 1086, summoned to Sarum, prelates, nobles, and
knights from all parts of England, to discuss new laws. William Rufus
also held a council here. It was in the reign of Henry I. that Sarum
began to decline. The Empress Maud gave handsome gifts to the cathedral
and clergy, but the bishop offended the king, and there were frequent
quarrels between the clergy and the garrison, so that after about 1220,
the inhabitants began to forsake the place, by degrees, and to build
houses at New Sarum, the modern Salisbury.

The old city was very strongly fortified. Around it was a deep moat or
ditch; beyond this, two ramparts; on the higher and inner rampart stood
a wall of flint, chalk, and stone, about twelve feet thick, with
battlements. Only one entrance to the city existed, on the east side. On
the top of the hill, in the centre, was the castle or citadel. From
this, the streets branched off to the walls, Sarum being divided into
two parts, north and south, marked by gates and towers; there were also
ten more towers at equal distances, and alongside the walls ran a
circular street, which went round the whole city. On the north-west side
stood the cathedral and the bishop's palace. Altogether, Old Sarum was
one of the strongest cities England ever had.

THE GIANT OF THE TREASURE CAVES.

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Jack's face was ashy pale, but his eyes burnt as if with some hidden
fire. Estelle was half frightened; yet some inkling of the truth began
to dawn faintly on her. She shrank back; but the thought that had come
to her seemed so impossible that she conquered her terror.

'Yes,' she said, softly, looking up into Jack's face, 'and his greatest
wish, the very greatest he has on earth, is--what do you think? To hear
that the man who injured him has not been made a bad man by what he had
done. He wants him to repent, and he wants him to know that he _has_
forgiven him. Dick was afraid that the man might think he had killed
him, and that the thought might make him desperate.'

'The man seems to have done harm enough,' cried Jack, in a stony voice,
turning away, and walking down the steps towards the edge of the cliff.

'But Dick has forgiven it all, indeed he has, Jack,' she urged.

But Jack did not appear to hear. He stood with his back to her, gazing
out to sea. Suddenly he turned and came hack, seating himself at her
side. His face was very white, but