she could not find opportunity to communicate the suspi-cious circumstance to any in authority. Apparelled in the utmost haste, the parties set forth, and slacked not their riding till they reached the port. There seemed to be a great crowd in the vicinity, of sailors, boat-men, clowns, in cartinen's frocks, and occasionally a man in armor. Eva fancied that she discerned among them the huntsmen of the wood, and her fears were confirmed when a moment after the royal train were completely environed by the band. But so adroitly was the manœuvre effected, that the fugitives had scarcely time to feel themselves pris-oners, when a troop of Leicester's men appeared in the dis-tance, and they comprehended that, but for the timely in-terposition of these unknown friends, their retreat would have been cut off. As the vessel receded from shore, swords were drawn, and a fierce contest ensued between the huntsmen and the soldiers, and Eva recognized in the leader of their defenders the figure of the tall knight who had rescued them at London bridge. At the court of Queen Margaret, the exiled princesses re-ceived a cordial welcome, and the piety of Eleanora was strengthened by intercourse with the good St. Louis : while Eva's vivacity soon made her a favorite with the ladies of the French court. The unaffected piety of the saintly mon-arch was scarcely ä fit subject for the humor which Eva exercised without discrimination, upon the grave and gay. But many of the superstitious observances of the church, ridiculous in themselves, excited her native merriment; nor could all the penances of the confessor restrict the playful license of her tongue. The Latin dynasty of Constantinople was now tottering to its fall. The young Greek emperor Baldwin, deprived of the counsels of his father-in-law, Jean de Brienne (who had taken the habit of St. Francis, and died on a pilgrim-age to Jerusalem), was exposed to the attacks of every dis-affected noble that chose to rebel against him. He had made every possible concession to avoid open warfare with his enemies, and had suffered every conceivable inconve- HEROINES OF THE CRUSADES.