In Kings' Byways

I learned in that moment how swiftly even those who rise to the highest levels of Court may fall.

"What does he plead?" the Bishop said, with a dark glance at me.

The head-clerk twisted my ear until I screamed. "Do you hear his Grace speak to you? Answer him!"

"My lord," I cried piteously, "I do not know of what I am accused. And besides, I have done nothing! Nothing!"

"Nothing!" half a dozen echoed.

"Have him to the courtyard," said the Bishop, "and let the grooms flog him through the gates!"

Popular author of The House of the Wolf and The Long Night, Stanley Weyman (1855-1928) tells of adventure, romance, and desperation in the tales within In Kings' Byways.