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THE WHITE COMPANY

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

CONTENTS.

I. How the Black Sheep came forth from the Fold

II. How Alleyne Edricson came out into the World

III. How Hordle John cozened the Fuller of Lymington

IV. How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men

IV. How a Strange Company Gathered at the "Pied Merlin"

VI. How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed

VII. How the Three Comrades Journeyed through the Woodlands

VIII. The Three Friends

IX. How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood

X. How Hordle John Found a Man whom he Might Follow

XI. How a Young Shepherd had a Perilous Flock

XII. How Alleyne Learned More than he could Teach

XIII. How the White Company set forth to the Wars

XIV. How Sir Nigel sought for a Wayside Venture

XV. How the Yellow Cog sailed forth from Lepe

XVI. How the Yellow Cog fought the Two Rover Galleys

XVII. How the Yellow Cog crossed the Bar of Gironde

XVIII. How Sir Nigel Loring put a Patch upon his Eye

XIX. How there was Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrew's

XX. How Alleyne Won his Place in an Honorable Guild

XXI. How Agostino Pisano Risked his Head

XXII. How the Bowmen held Wassail at the "Rose de Guienne"

XXIII. How England held the Lists at Bordeaux

XXIV. How a Champion came forth from the East

XXV. How Sir Nigel wrote to Twynham Castle

XXVI. How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure

XXVII. How Roger Club-foot was Passed into Paradise

XXVIII. How the Comrades came over the Marches of France

XXIX. How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine

XXX. How the Brushwood Men came to the Chateau of Villefranche

XXXI. How Five Men held the Keep of Villefranche

XXXII. How the Company took Counsel Round the Fallen Tree

XXXIII. How the Army made the Passage of Roncesvalles

XXXIV. How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna

XXXV. How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle

XXXVI. How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from his Eye

XXXVII. How the White Company came to be Disbanded

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