The Silver Stallion

Their fate was high adventure - with an ending none of them could foresee. Dom Manuel - the high Count of Poictesme, who was everywhere esteemed the most lucky and the least scrupulous rogue of his times - had disappeared out of his castle at Storisende without any reason or forewarning, upon the feast day of St. Michael and All the Angels, much to the confusion and dismay of his subjects...