A Spanish Anecdote

A Spanish cavalier, in a sudden quarrel, slew a Moorish gentleman and led. His pursners soon lost sight of him, or he liad unperceived thrown hirnself over a garden wall. The owner, a Moor, íappeniijg to be in his garden, was addressed by the Spaniard, on his knees, who ucquainted him with his case and mpkrredconcealmeut. "Eat this, " said ;hc Moor, "yon knosvthat you mayconide in my protection. ' ' He then locked lim np in his garden apartment, telling íim that as soon as it was night he would provide for his escape to a place of safety. The Moor then went to his honse, whero he had just seated himself, when a great crówd, with loud lamentations, carne to his gate, bringing the corpse of lis son, who had just been killed by the Spaniard. When the first shock of surprise was a little over, he learned, from ;he description given, that the fatal deed was done by the very person then in his aower. He mentioned this to no one, bnt is soon as it was dark, retired to his garden, as if to grieve alone, giving orlers that none should f ollow him. Then, acoostinsrtheSijaniard, he said: ;iau, the person yovi have killed is my son ; his body is now in my house. Yon ought to suffer, but yon have eaten with me, and I liave giVeu yon niy faith, which must not bebroken. " He then led the astoaished Spaniard to his stables, and mounted him on one of his fleetest horses, and said : "Fly far while the night can cover yon ; you will be safe in the morning. Yon are indeed guilty of my son's blood, but God is jnst and good, and I thank him I am innocent of yonrs, and that my faith given is preserved!" His point of honor is, it is said, most religiously obscrvert by the Arabs and Saracens, froni whom it was adopted by the Moors of África and by them was bronght into Spain.