Adventure Magazine Cover, March 20, 1925 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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March 20,1925 Vol LE: No.5 (The ens D river AComplete Novel 4 Harold Lamb ’ Author of ‘The Sword of Honor,” “Forward,” etc CHAPTER I THE MAN-AT-ARMS PON a fair day in May, in token of the honor due them for long and valorous service in Flanders, a small group of men were chosen to mount guard at the pavilion of his Majesty King Edward the Sixth of England. They were armigers or esquires-at-arms, and the youngest of their company was placed at the entrance of the pavilion nearest the person of the king. The name of this armiger was Ralph Thorne. He was selected for this post because, of these survivors of a gallant company, he had done the most in battle. “The Snow Driver,” copyright, 1925, by Harold Lamb. Copyright, 1925, by The Ridgway Company in the United States and Great Britain. “Because, sire,’ explained the politic Dudley, Duke of Stratford, “he has never failed in the execution of a command. Because, being distant from the court and the eye of his sovereign, he has yet per- formed deeds of hardihood, suffering thereby sore scathe and wounds.” This tribute, lightly rendered by my lord duke, was remembered by him in latter years. Verily he had good reason to regret his words and his selection of a sentinel. For there befell in that hour and in that day of the year 1553 a strange event. And here is the tale of it, justly set down, giving every man his due, and no man more; for it is not the task of the chronicler to praise and dispraise, but to make manifest the truth. All rights reserved. 1 COMiIiCcloOoe