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The Brethren
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From the opening
Chapter I. By The Waters of Death Creek
Chapter II. Sir Andrew D’Arcy
Chapter III. The Knighting of the Brethren
Chapter IV. The Letter of Saladin
Chapter V. The Wine Merchant
Chapter VI. The Christmas Feast at Steeple
Chapter VII. The Banner of Saladin
Chapter VIII. The Widow Masouda
Chapter IX. The Horses Flame and Smoke
Chapter X. On Board the Galley
Chapter XI. The City of Al-Je-Bal
Chapter XII. The Lord of Death
Chapter XIII. The Embassy
Chapter XIV. The Combat on the Bridge
Chapter XV. The Flight to Emesa
Chapter XVI. The Sultan Saladin
Chapter XVII. The Brethren Depart from Damascus
Chapter XVIII. Wulf Pays for the Drugged Wine
Chapter XIX. Before the Walls of Ascalon
Chapter XX. The Luck of the Star of Hassan
Chapter XXI. What Befell Godwin
Chapter XXII. At Jerusalem
Chapter XXIII. Saint Rosamund
Chapter XXIV. The Dregs of the Cup
R.M.S. Mongolia, 12th May, 1904 Mayhap, Ella, here too distance lends
its enchantment, and these gallant brethren would have quarrelled over
Rosamund, or even had their long swords at each other’s throat. Mayhap
that Princess and heroine might have failed in the hour of her trial
and never earned her saintly crown. Mayhap the good horse “Smoke” would
have fallen on the Narrow Way, leaving false Lozelle a victor, and
Masouda, the royal-hearted, would have offered up a strangely different
sacrifice upon the altars of her passionate desire.
Still, let us hold otherwise, though we grow grey and know the world
for what it is. Let us for a little time think as we thought while we
were young; when faith knew no fears for anything and death had not
knocked upon our doors; when you opened also to my childish eyes that
gate of ivory and pearl which leads to the blessed kingdom of Romance.
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