When morning dawned and Tancred did not appear, the
good old Count Raymond went forth to meet Argantes.
When he was about to overcome his antagonist, an arrow
shot from the pagaa ranks brought on a general conflict, in
which the Christians were successful until a storm, summoned
by the powers of darkness, put an end to the battle. The
next morning a knight came to the camp of Godfrey to tell
of Sweno's defeat and slaughter. He, the sole survivor of
the band, had been commissioned by some supernatural
visitants to bring Sweno's sword to Rinaldo.
While Godfrey's heart was wrung by this disaster, the



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camp of Italians, led to suppose by some bloody armor
found in a wood that Rinaldo had been treacherously slain
with the connivance of Godfrey, accused the chief and stirred
up the camp to revolt; but Godfrey, praying to Heaven
for strength to meet his enemies, walked through the camp
firmly and unfalteringly, unarmed and with head bare, his
face still bright with the heavenly light left there by spiritual
communion, and silenced the tumult by a few well-chosen
words. His arch-accuser Argillan he sentenced to death;
the others crept back to their tents in shame.
The Soldan Solyman, driven from Nice at its capture,
had joined the Turks, dnd, spurred on by hate and fury,
made a night attack on the Frankish camp. The Franks,
saved only by the interposition of the angel Michael, and
by the troops just returned, released from Arraida's enchant-
ment, fought fiercely, and at dawn put Solyman to flight.
By the arts of Ismeno he was conveyed to Jerusalem by a
secret way, where he cheered the discouraged Aladine.
