The Captain of the Guard
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Grant James. The Captain of the Guard
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE FOUR COFFINS
CHAPTER II. WILLIAM, DUKE OF TOURAINE
CHAPTER III. THE ENTRANCE
CHAPTER IV. THE SISTERS
CHAPTER V. THE ABBOT'S HOUSE
CHAPTER VI. MURIELLE
CHAPTER VII. THE LEGEND OF ST. ANDREW'S CROSS
CHAPTER VIII. I LOVE YOU
CHAPTER IX. THE TWENTY-THIRD OF NOVEMBER
CHAPTER X. FOREBODINGS
CHAPTER XI. THE VIGIL OF ST. CATHARINE
CHAPTER XII. THE BLACK BULL'S HEAD
CHAPTER XIII. THE BLOCK
CHAPTER XIV. THE TWENTY-FOURTH OF NOVEMBER
CHAPTER XV. A SECRET STAIR
CHAPTER XVI. THE CASTLE OF THRAVE
CHAPTER XVII. THE BOWER CHAMBER
CHAPTER XVIII. THE BALCONY
CHAPTER XIX. A FEUDAL LORD
CHAPTER XX. THE MISSION
CHAPTER XXI. GRAY'S DEPARTURE
CHAPTER XXII. THE LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND
CHAPTER XXIII. OUR LADY OF ANTWERP
CHAPTER XXIV. MAÎTRE BAUDOIN
CHAPTER XXV. SNICK AND SNEE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE ROYAL LETTER
CHAPTER XXVII. THE CASTLE OF ENDHOVEN
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE COURT OF GUELDRES
CHAPTER XXIX. A STRANGE RENCONTRE
CHAPTER XXX. BOLD SCHEMES
CHAPTER XXXI. BOMMEL
CHAPTER XXXII. THE CHURCH OF ST. GENEVIEVE
CHAPTER XXXIII. HOUSE OF THE DYCK GRAF
CHAPTER XXXIV. NOON – THE PLOT
CHAPTER XXXV. NIGHT – THE SNARE
CHAPTER XXXVI. DUKE REINALD'S CROSS
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE THIRD EVENING
CHAPTER XXXVIII. A WEDDING NIGHT
CHAPTER XXXIX. A GLANCE AT HISTORY
CHAPTER XL. THE PRISONER
CHAPTER XLI. CRICHTON
CHAPTER XLII. KING JAMES II
CHAPTER XLIII. A LADLEFUL OF GOLD
CHAPTER XLIV. THE BOND
CHAPTER XLV. SIR PATRICK GRAY'S JOURNEY
CHAPTER XLVI. AN UNEXPECTED GUIDE
CHAPTER XLVII. HUSBAND AND WIFE
CHAPTER XLVIII. DOUGLAS AND GRAY
CHAPTER XLIX. THE FATE OF MACLELLAN
CHAPTER L. WILL HE ESCAPE?
CHAPTER LI. STIRLING
CHAPTER LII. HOW THE KING BROKE THE BOND
CHAPTER LIII. THE SIEGE OF THRAVE
CHAPTER LIV. THE DEFIANCE
CHAPTER LV. MOWAN'S MEG
CHAPTER LVI. THE PARLEY
CHAPTER LVII. THE FALL OF THRAVE
EPILOGUE
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On the evening of the 22nd November, 1440, the report of a brass carthoun, or cannon-royale, as it pealed from the castle of Edinburgh, made all who were in the thoroughfares below raise their eyes to the grey ramparts, where the white smoke was seen floating away from the summit of King David's Tower, and then people were seen hastening towards the southern side of the city, where the quaint old streets and narrow alleys opened into the fields, or the oakwoods of Bristo and Drumsheugh.
Crowds from all quarters pressed towards the Pleasance, the route by which the great earl of Douglas (duke of Touraine and lord of Longoville), who had been invited to visit the young king, was expected to enter the city. Curiosity was excited, as it was anticipated that his train would be a brilliant one. All in the secluded metropolis of the north were on tiptoe to behold a sight such as they had not been gratified with since the ambassadors of Amadeus VIII., duke of Savoy, had come to ask the hand of the king's little sister, Annabella, for his son, the valiant Louis Count de Maurienne, to whom, however, she preferred a Scottish earl, with a Scottish home, on the bonnie banks of the Clyde.
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"Douglas never leaves his castle gates with less," said MacLellan; "and wherefore marvel? They are not so many after all for such an earl as Douglas, when the laird of Roslin's daughter never enters Edinburgh with less than seventy mounted gentlemen in her train, each clad in a velvet jupon, with a chain of gold at his neck."
"Two thousand lances," muttered the Chancellor also, stroking his shaven chin, for beards were only worn by soldiers at that time, and not always by them.
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