Conan Doyles Best Books in Three Volumes, Vol. 3

By Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Excerpt
Excerpt: HOW THE BLACK SHEEP CAME FORTH FROM THE FOLD. THE great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell Peatcutters Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were neither short nor long?

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: THE WHITE COMPANY -- CHAPTER PACK -- I. How the Black Sheep came forth from the Fold, 5 -- II. How Alleyne Edricson came out into the World, 13 -- III. How Hordle John cozened the Fuller of Lymington 18 -- IV. How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two -- Masterless Men 23 -- V. How a Strange Company Gathered at the Pied -- Merlin 34 -- VI. How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed, 45 -- VII. How the Three Comrades Journeyed through the -- Woodlands, '.:.- 56 -- VIII. The Three Friends 65 -- IX. How Strange Things Befell in Minsted Wood, 75 -- X. How Hordle John Found a Man whom he Might -- Follow 91 -- XI. How a Young Shepherd had a Perilous Flock, 108 -- XII. How Alleyne Learned More than he could Teach, 121 -- XIII. How the White Company set forth to the Wars, 129 -- XIV. How Sir Nigel sought for a Wayside Venture, 136 -- XV. How the Yellow Cog sailed forth from Life, 145 -- XVI. How the Yellow Cog fought the Two Rover Galleys 157 -- XVII. How the Yellow Cog crossed the Bar of Gironde, 164 -- XV11I. How Sir Nigel Loring put a Patch upon his Eye, 171 -- XIX. How there was Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrews, 181 -- XX. How Alleyne Won his Place in an Honorable Guild 191 -- XXI. How Agostino Pisano Risked his Head, 200 -- XXII. How the Bowmen held Wassail at the Rose de -- Guienne 209 -- XXIII. How England held the Lists at Bordeaux, 216 -- XXIV. How a Champion came forth from the East, 226 -- XXV. How Sir Nigel wrote to Twynham Castle, 234 -- XXVI. How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure 240