"Ah, Chevalier Nino, tell me!"
"You will lately have noticed in this realm a thinning of old nobility. Maybe the king is ill-advised, or maybe Count Raoul, God have him in keeping, has sworn to revolt if it be not done; but in any case I am count-designate of Saint-Aunay, the only condition being that I marry the late count's heiress."
"Chevalier – I mean my lord Count – I – I–"
"Nay, lad, no need to say these things, with such an offer as yours scarce cooled upon the air. I am not yet a lord; but when I am one there will always be honour for you at Saint-Aunay. And now – come away from this carrion. Is that his dagger, with the silver hilt?"
"Yes. Now I think I will take his sword – and offer it upon my knees, for it will please Heaven to know it can do no more wrong. Will you not keep the dagger, Chevalier Nino?"
"Gramercy. Gladly I will. When I think of John Doust it will not be unpleasant to look up and see the silver hilt and remember this day by the ford – by our ford – by the fort that Joris may have used for many a bloody raid…
"You have the sword? And I the dagger. And the Fiend his black soul. King Thorismund shall have his golden head, and the crows and kites the red rest of him. And now we will find my lord Count."
"Ay, that is Joris," said Raoul of Ger, when Nino slit the cloak for his inspection. "So I may keep my promise to our lord the king; for the head we thought to belong to this rogue was not worth sending to Hautarroy…
"So, Juhel, you have purged the realm and quitted me of my task. God knows I owe you enough already; but what can I give you now?"
"A blade for one thing," smiled Nino. "And a rap on the shoulder therewith, for another."
Juhel went very pale, and crossed his hands on the nicked hilt of the long sword he carried. From the golden-brown face of Nino Chiostra he looked to the brown-ivory face of Raoul of Ger.
"My lord Count," he said simply, "you can give me one thing only."
"It is yours – but what may it be?"
"Your leave to enter Holy Church," said the son of Joris of the Rock.
THE END
SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HORROR IN PAGETURNER EDITIONS
THE NEUSTRIAN CYCLE
1. Gerfalcon
2. Joris of the Rock
3. The Shy Leopardess
AWARD WINNING NOMINEE STORIES AND AUTHORS
Moonworm's Dance Other SF Classics – Stanley Mullen (includes The Day the Earth Stood Still Other SF Classics – Harry Bates (Balrog Award winning story)
Hugo nominee story Space to Swing a Cat)
People of the Darkness–Ross Rocklynne (Nebulas nominee author)
When They Come From Space–Mark Clifton (Hugo winning author)
What Thin Partitions–Mark Clifton (Hugo winning author)
Star Bright Other SF Classics – Mark Clifton
Eight Keys to Eden–Mark Clifton (Hugo winning author)
Rat in the Skull Other Off-Trail Science Fiction–Rog Phillips (Hugo nominee author)
The Involuntary Immortals–Rog Phillips (Hugo nominee author)
Inside Man Other Science Fictions–H. L. Gold (Hugo winner, Nebula nominee)
Women of the Wood and Other Stories–A. Merritt (Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame award)
A Martian Odyssey Other SF Classics –Stanley G. Weinbaum (SFWA Hall of Fame author)
Dawn of Flame Other Stories –Stanley G. Weinbaum (SFWA Hall of Fame author)
The Black Flame – Stanley G. Weinbaum
Scout–Octavio Ramos, Jr. (Best Original Fiction)
Smoke Signals–Octavio Ramos, Jr. (Best Original Fiction winning author)
The City at World's End–Edmond Hamilton
The Star Kings–Edmond Hamilton (Sense of Wonder Award winning author)
A Yank at Valhalla–Edmond Hamilton (Sense of Wonder Award winning author)
Dawn of the Demigods, or People Minus X – Raymond Z. Gallun (Nebula Nominee Author)
STEFAN VUCAK'S EPPIE NOMINEE SPACE SAGA "THE SHADOW GODS"
In the Shadow of Death
Against the Gods of Shadow
A Whisper From Shadow
Immortal in Shadow
With Shadow and Thunder
Through the Valley of Shadow
JANRAE FRANK'S DARK BROTHERS OF THE LIGHT
Blood Rites
Blood Heresy
Bloody Sunrise
RAYMOND F. JONES' CLASSIC SF
(Hugo nominee author)
The Toymaker Other SF Stories–Raymond F. Jones
The Alien–Raymond F. Jones
This Island Earth–Raymond F. Jones
Renaissance–Raymond F. Jones
Rat Race Other SF Novelettes and Short Novels–Raymond F. Jones (Hugo nominee story)
King of Eolim – Raymond F. Jones
The Renegades of Time – Raymond F. Jones
Sunday is Three Thousand Years Away: Classic SF Novellas – Raymond F. Jones
EMIL PETAJA'S THE COSMIC KALEVALA
(Nebula nominee author)
#1 The Saga of Lost Earths
The Star Mill
The Stolen Sun
Tramontane
THE AGENT OF TERRA
#1 The Flying Saucer Gambit
#2 The Emerald Elephant Gambit
#3 The Golden Goddess Gambit
#4 The Time Trap Gambit
JOE VADALMA'S CHRONICLES OF MORGAINE THE SORCERESS
#1 Morgaine and Michael
#2 Morgaine and Melody
#3 Morgaine and Raven
#4 Morgaine and Gretchen
#5 Morgaine and Asmodeus
ARDATH MAYHAR'S AWARD-WINNING SF F
The Crystal Skull Other Tales of the Terrifying and Twisted
The World Ends in Hickory Hollow, or After Armageddon
The Tupla: A Nover of Horror
The Twilight Dancer Other Tales of Magic, Mystery and the Supernatural
Road of Stars: A Fantasy
The Black Tower: A Novel of Dark Fantasy
JAC EDDINS' THE MINSTREL'S SONG
#1 Jason
#2. Arthur
#3 Malwyn
#4 Demon
#5 Galan
PLANETS OF ADVENTURE
Colorful Space Opera from the Legendary Pulp Planet Stories
"The Sword of Fire" – A Novel of an Enslaved World" by Emmett McDowell. "The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears" – A Novel of Peril on Alien Worlds by Keith Bennett.
"Captives of the Weir-Wind" – A Novel of the Void by Nebula Nominee Ross Rocklynne. "Black Priestess of Varda" – A Novel of a Magic World by Erik Fennel.
NEMESIS: THE NEW MAGAZINE OF PULP THRILLS
#1. Featuring Gun Moll, the 1920s Undercover Nemesis of Crime in "Tentacles of Evil," an all-new, complete book-length novel; plus a Nick Bancroft mystery by Bob Liter, "The Greensox Murders" by Jean Marie Stine, and a classic mystery short reprinted from the heyday of the pulps.
#2 Featuring Rachel Rocket, the 1930s Winged Nemesis of Foreign Terror in "Hell Wings Over Manhattan," an all-new, complete book-length novel, plus spine-tingling science fiction stories, including EPPIE nominee Stefan Vucak's "Hunger," author J. D. Crayne's disturbing "Point of View," Hugo Award winner Larry Niven's "No Exit," written with Jean Marie Stine, and a classic novelette of space ship mystery by the king of space opera, Edmond Hamilton. Illustrated. (Illustrations not available in Palm).
#3 Featuring Victory Rose, the 1940s Nemesis of Axis Tyranny, in Hitler's Final Trumpet," an all-new, complete book-length novel, plus classic jungle pulp tales, including a complete Ki-Gor novel.
# 4 Featuring Femme Noir, the 1950s Nemesis of Hell's Restless Spirits, in an all new, book length novel, plus all new and classic pulp shudder tales, including "The Summons from Beyond" the legendary round-robin novelette of cosmic horror by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, and Frank Belknap Long.
OTHER FINE CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC SF/F/H
A Million Years to Conquer–Henry Kuttner
After the Polothas – Stephen Brown
Arcadia – Tabitha Bradley
Backdoor to Heaven – Vicki McElfresh
Buck Rogers #1: Armageddon 2419 A.D.–Philip Francis Nowlan
Buck Rogers #2. The Airlords of Han – Philip Francis Nowlan
Chaka: Zulu King–Book I. The Curse of Baleka–H. R. Haggard
Chaka: Zulu King–Book II. Umpslopogass' Revenge–H. R. Haggard
Claimed!–Francis Stevens
Darby O'Gill: The Classic Irish Fantasy–Hermine Templeton
Deadline and Other Controversial SF Classics – Cleve Cartmill
Diranda: Tales of the Fifth Quadrant – Tabitha Bradley
Dracula's Daughters–Ed. Jean Marie Stine
Dwellers in the Mirage–A. Merritt
From Beyond 16 Other Macabre Masterpieces–H. P. Lovecraft
Future Eves: Classic Science Fiction about Women by Women–(ed) Jean Marie Stine
Ghost Hunters and Psychic Detectives: 8 Classic Tales of Sleuthing and the Supernatural–(ed.) J. M. Stine
Horrors!: Rarely Reprinted Classic Terror Tales–(ed.) J. M. Stine. J.L. Hill
House on the Borderland–William Hope Hodgson
House of Many Worlds [Elspeth Marriner #1]– Sam Merwin Jr.
Invisible Encounter and Other SF Stories – J. D. Crayne
Murcheson Inc., Space Salvage – Cleve Cartmill
Ki-Gor, Lord of the Jungle–John Peter Drummond
Lost Stars: Forgotten SF from the "Best of Anthologies"–(ed.) J. M. Stine
Metropolis–Thea von Harbou
Mission to Misenum [Elspeth Marriner #2] – Sam Merwin Jr.
Mistress of the Djinn–Geoff St. Reynard
Monster Lake – J. D. Crayne
Nightmare!–Francis Stevens
Pete Manx, Time Troubler – Arthur K. Barnes
Possessed!–Francis Stevens
Ralph 124C 41+ – Hugo Gernsback
Seven Out of Time – Arthur Leo Zagut
Star Tower – Joe Vadalma
The Cosmic Wheel–J. D. Crayne
The Forbidden Garden–John Taine
The City at World's End–Edmond Hamilton
The Ghost Pirates–W. H. Hodgson
The Girl in the Golden Atom – Ray Cummings
The Heads of Cerberus – Francis Stevens
The House on the Borderland–William Hope Hodgson
The Insidious Fu Manchu–Sax Rohmer
The Interplanetary Huntress–Arthur K. Barnes
The Interplanetary Huntress Returns–Arthur K. Barnes
The Interplanetary Huntress Last Case–Arthur K. Barnes
The Lightning Witch, or The Metal Monster–A. Merritt
The Price He Paid: A Novel of the Stellar Republic – Matt Kirkby
The Thief of Bagdad–Achmed Abdullah
Women of the Wood and Other Stories–A. Merritt
BARGAIN SF/F EBOOKS IN OMNIBUS EDITIONS
(Complete Unabridged)
The First Lord Dunsany Omnibus: 5 Complete Books – Lord Dunsany
The First William Morris Omnibus: 4 Complete Classic Fantasy Books
The Barsoom Omnibus: A Princess of Mars; The Gods of Mars; The Warlord of Mars–Burroughs
The Second Barsoom Omnibus: Thuvia, Maid of Mars; The Chessmen of Mars–Burroughs
The Third Barsoom Omnibus: The Mastermind of Mars; A Fighting Man of Mars–Burroughs
The First Tarzan Omnibus: Tarzan of the Apes; The Return of Tarzan; Jungle Tales of Tarzan–Burroughs
The Second Tarzan Omnibus: The Beasts of Tarzan; The Son of Tarzan; Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar–Burroughs
The Third Tarzan Omnibus: Tarzan the Untamed; Tarzan the Terrible; Tarzan and the Golden Lion–Burroughs
The Pellucidar Omnibus: At the Earth's Core; Pellucidar–Burroughs
The Caspak Omnibus: The Land that Time Forgot; The People that Time Forgot; Out of Time's Abyss–Burroughs
The First H. G. Wells Omnibus: The Invisible Man: War of the Worlds; The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Second H. G. Wells Omnibus: The Time Machine; The First Men in the Moon; When the Sleeper Wakes
The Third H. G. Wells Omnibus: The Food of the Gods; Shape of Things to Come; In the Days of the Comet
The First Jules Verne Omnibus: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea; The Mysterious Island; From the Earth to the Moon
The Homer Eon Flint: All 4 of the Clasic "Dr. Kenney" Novels: The Lord of Death; The Queen of Life; The Devolutionist; The Emancipatrix
The Second Jules Verne Omnibus: Around the World in 80 Days; A Journey to the Center of the Earth; Off on a Comet
Three Great Horror Novels: Dracula; Frankenstein; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Darkness and Dawn Omnibus: The Classic Science Fiction Trilogy–George Allan England
The Garrett P. Serviss Omnibus: The Second Deluge; The Moon Metal; A Columbus of Space
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Identifier:ISBN 1-58873-620-2
Title:JORIS OF THE ROCK [THE NEUSTRIAN CYCLE, BOOK II]
Creator:LESLIE BARRINGER
Date:4/12/2006
Publisher:A Renaissance E Books publication
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