{"product_id":"2940014008716","title":"THE OUTLAW OF TORN","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first\u003cbr\u003eit was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it\u003cbr\u003ewas forgotten. I happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being\u003cbr\u003ethe relationship of my wife's cousin to a certain Father Superior in a\u003cbr\u003every ancient monastery in Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe let me pry about among a quantity of mildewed and musty manuscripts\u003cbr\u003eand I came across this. It is very interesting--partially since it is a\u003cbr\u003ebit of hitherto unrecorded history, but principally from the fact that\u003cbr\u003eit records the story of a most remarkable revenge and the adventurous\u003cbr\u003elife of its innocent victim--Richard, the lost prince of England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the retelling of it, I have left out most of the history. What\u003cbr\u003einterested me was the unique character about whom the tale revolves--the\u003cbr\u003evisored horseman who--but let us wait until we get to him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt all happened in the thirteenth century, and while it was happening,\u003cbr\u003eit shook England from north to south and from east to west; and reached\u003cbr\u003eacross the channel and shook France. It started, directly, in the London\u003cbr\u003epalace of Henry III, and was the result of a quarrel between the King\u003cbr\u003eand his powerful brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever mind the quarrel, that's history, and you can read all about it at\u003cbr\u003eyour leisure. But on this June day in the year of our Lord 1243, Henry\u003cbr\u003eso forgot himself as to very unjustly accuse De Montfort of treason in\u003cbr\u003ethe presence of a number of the King's gentlemen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDe Montfort paled. He was a tall, handsome man, and when he drew himself\u003cbr\u003eto his full height and turned those gray eyes on the victim of his\u003cbr\u003ewrath, as he did that day, he was very imposing. A power in England,\u003cbr\u003esecond only to the King himself, and with the heart of a lion in him, he\u003cbr\u003eanswered the King as no other man in all England would have dared answer\u003cbr\u003ehim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"My Lord King,\" he cried, \"that you be my Lord King alone prevents Simon\u003cbr\u003ede Montfort from demanding satisfaction for such a gross insult. That\u003cbr\u003eyou take advantage of your kingship to say what you would never dare say\u003cbr\u003ewere you not king, brands me not a traitor, though it does brand you a\u003cbr\u003ecoward.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079814234352,"sku":"2940014008716","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014008716_p0.jpg?v=1763598854","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014008716","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}