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CHAPTER XII.
The Accolade.CHAPTER XIII.
In the Hands of the Saracens.CHAPTER XIV.
An Effort for Freedom.CHAPTER XV.
A Hermit's Tale.CHAPTER XVI.
A Fight of Heroes.CHAPTER XVII.
An Alpine Storm.CHAPTER XVIII.
Sentenced to Death.CHAPTER XIX.
Dresden.CHAPTER XX.
Under the Greenwood.CHAPTER XXI.
The Attempt on the Convent.CHAPTER XXII.
A Dastardly Stratagem.CHAPTER XXIII.
The False and Perjured Knight.CHAPTER XXIV.
The Siege of Evesham Castle.CHAPTER XXV.
In Search of the King.CHAPTER XXVI.
King Richard's Return to England.THE BOY KNIGHT.
CHAPTER I.
THE OUTLAWS.
It was a bright morning in the month of August, when a lad of some fifteen years of age, sitting on a low wall, watched party after party of armed men riding up to the castle of the Earl of Evesham. A casual observer glancing at his curling hair and bright open face, as also at the fashion of his dress, would at once have assigned to him a purely Saxon origin; but a keener eye would have detected signs that Norman blood ran also