Category: Historical Novels
That was a blithe spring morning when the messenger from the King brought to my father the order to join the army at Lincoln for the great expedition into Scotland. Six armored knights with their squires and a hundred men-at-arms made up the Mountjoy quota; and these my father...
I was in Stamford in the year of the Great Charter of King John. Half the knights and barons of all England with a goodly following of men-at-arms and yeomanry had been assemble...
1. CHAPTER I--THE SIEGE OF CASTLE MOUNTJOYThat was a blithe spring morning when the messenger from the King brought to my father the order to join the army at Lincoln for the great expedition into Scotland. Six armored...
12. CHAPTER XII--THE IRON COLLARA year had passed since our ill-fated venture beneath the walls of Kimberley, and 'twas such an autumn morning as makes one forget his cares and sorrows and those of a strife-to...
6. CHAPTER VI--WOLF'S HEAD GLENI think that that spring morning whereon Cedric and I set out on the forest road to Coventry was the fairest that ever I have seen. The sun shone gloriously in the open glades a...
9. CHAPTER IX--CHURL AND OVERLORD'Twas a year and more after the overthrow of the Monkslayer in Blackpool Forest and the killing or scattering of most of his band that my father, the Lord of Mountjoy, with my l...
10. CHAPTER X--THE PASS OF THE EAGLESOn a breezy autumn morning, while we made practice of arms in the courtyard, a herald from De Lacey, the Lord High Constable, rode over Mountjoy drawbridge. He had an urgent mes...
5. CHAPTER V--THE FESTIVAL OF THE ARCHERSYoung Cedric, the forester, who was now my constant companion, was walking with me on the path that led by the Millfield. There, since the raising of the siege of Castle Mountjo...
4. CHAPTER IV--THE CHAMPION OF MOUNTJOYAs Cedric of Pelham Wood rode with me into the courtyard, we met my father, the Lord of Mountjoy, coming from the stables. His favorite steed, a fine black stallion, Caesar by n...
3. CHAPTER III--CEDRIC THE FORESTERIt was on a sunny noontide, in fair October, some six months after we had driven the hounds of Carleton from our castle of Mountjoy, that I was riding in the forest, three leagu...
11. CHAPTER XI--BY KIMBERLEY MOATAfter the Battle of the Pass we had a season of quiet at Mountjoy. King Richard had sailed on the Great Crusade, leaving his brother John as Regent; and the people of England, n...
7. CHAPTER VII--THE OUTLAWS OF BLACKPOOL'Twas a fortnight after the fray with the outlaws on the borders of Blackpool Forest, where, all unknowing, we had saved the life of young Sir Geoffrey of Carleton, heir of the...
2. CHAPTER II--THE TAPPING ON THE DUNGEON WALLAs before, the siege went on, the sole variance being the absence of the gray-bearded horseman from the groups of knights and squires who made the circuit of the sentry-posts. D...
8. CHAPTER VIII--"THE FORTRESS OF THE MONKSLAYER"Sir Richard," he said, speaking far more quickly than was his wont. "I have a thought of the whereabouts of this fastness that the robber speaks of in his letter."