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* Chapter Seven: The Banner of Saladin
* Chapter Eight: The Widow Masouda
* Chapter Nine: The Horses Flame and Smoke
* Chapter Ten: On Board the Galley
* Chapter Eleven: The City of Al-je-bal
* Chapter Twelve: The Lord of Death
* Chapter Thirteen: The Embassy
* Chapter Fourteen: The Combat on the Bridge
* Chapter Fifteen: The Flight to Emesa
* Chapter Sixteen: The Sultan Saladin
* Chapter Seventeen: The Brethren Depart from Damascus
* Chapter Eighteen: Wulf Pays for the Drugged Wine
* Chapter Nineteen: Before the Walls of Ascalon
* Chapter Twenty: The Luck of the Star of Hassan
* Chapter Twenty-One: What Befell Godwin
* Chapter Twenty-Two: At Jerusalem
* Chapter Twenty-Three: Saint Rosamund
* Chapter Twenty-Four: The Dregs of the Cup
"Two lovers by the maiden sate, Without a glance of jealous hate; The maid her lovers sat between, With open brow and equal mien;-- It is a sight but rarely spied, Thanks to man's wrath and woman's pride."
Scott
AUTHOR'S NOTE Standing a while ago upon the flower-clad plain above Tiberius, by the Lake of Galilee, the writer gazed at the double peaks of the Hill of Hattin. Here, or so tradition says, Christ preached the Sermon on the Mount--that perfect rule of gentleness and peace. Here, too-- and this is certain--after nearly twelve centuries had gone by, Yusuf Salah-ed-din, whom we know as the Sultan Saladin, crushed the Christian power in Palestine in perhaps the most terrible battle which that land of blood has known. Thus the Mount of the Beatitudes became the Mount of Massacre.
Whilst musing on these strangely-contrasted scenes enacted in one place there arose in his mind a desire to weave, as best he might, a tale wherein any who are drawn to the romance of that pregnant and mysterious epoch, when men by thousands were glad to lay down their lives for visions and spiritual hopes, could find a picture, however faint and broken,