CHAPTER XIV. — AN EFFORT FOR FREEDOM. CHAPTER XV. — A HERMIT'S TALE. CHAPTER XVI. — A FIGHT OF HEROES. CHAPTER XVII. — AN ALPINE STORM. CHAPTER XVIII. — SENTENCED TO DEATH. CHAPTER XIX. — DRESDEN. CHAPTER XX. — UNDER THE GREENWOOD. CHAPTER XXI. — THE ATTEMPT ON THE CONVENT. CHAPTER XXII. — A DASTARDLY STRATAGEM. CHAPTER XXIII. — THE FALSE AND PERJURED KNIGHT. CHAPTER XXIV. — THE SIEGE OF EVESHAM CASTLE. CHAPTER XXV. — IN SEARCH OF THE KING. CHAPTER XXVI. — KING RICHARD'S RETURN TO ENGLAND. THE BOY KNIGHT. CHAPTER I. — THE OUTLAWS. It was a bright morning in the month of August, when a lad of some fifteen years of age, sitting on a low wall, watched party after party of armed men riding up to the castle of the Earl of Evesham. A casual observer glancing at his curling hair and bright open face, as also at the fashion of his dress, would at once have assigned to him a purely Saxon origin; but a keener eye would have detected