tempting the Cerberus with the remains of her
luncheon, got past him, and wandered through
the cloister, up a fine staircase to a spacious cor-
ridor, in hopes of finding a guide to show them
the way to the chapel, where lay the object of
their expedition, i.e., the monument of the Cid.
But she was only answered by the echo of her
own footsteps. The cells were empty ; the once
beautiful library gutted and destroyed ; the refec-
tory had nothing in it but bare walls — the whole
place was like a city of the dead. At last, she
discovered a staircase leading down to a cloister
on the side opposite the great entrance, and there
a low-arched door, which she found ajar, admitted
her into the deserted church. The tomb of the
Cid has been removed from the high altar to a
side chapel; and there is interred, likewise, his
faithful and devoted wife Ximena, and their two
daughters. On his shield is emblazoned the 'tizona,' or sparkling brand, which the legends
afl&rm he always carried in his hand, and with
which he struck terror into the hearts of the
infidels. This church and convent, built for the
Benedictines by the Princess Sancho, in memory
of her son Theodoric, who was killed out hunting,
was sacked by the Moors in the ninth century,
when 200 of the monks were murdered. A tablet
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