The Knight of the Silver Cross: Or Hafed, the Lion of Turkestan, a Tale of the Ottoman Empire (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Knight of the Silver Cross: Or Hafed, the Lion of Turkestan, a Tale of the Ottoman EmpireThe old man ceased speaking, and the group silently proceeded forward. The road they had passed, for some distance, was strewn with sand to the depth of several inches, by the laborers who had been engaged in repairing it a short time before, to smooth away the roughness of the new pavement, so that their horses' feet made scarcely any noise, as they sank in the sand to their ankles with each step.This circumstance prevented them from hearing the approach of a horseman from behind, whose coal black steed, of giant proportions, bore him with such rapidity along the difficult way, as to enable him to overtake the travellers ere they had half descended the side of the hill, and while they were yet a mile from the city gate.From his dress, a stranger would mave supposed him to have been a Saracen Chieftain, but could you have rent the silken folds of his disguise, you would have seen beneath his garments the ponderous breast plate and shining armor of a knight, and on his left shoulder a silver cross, the symbol of his order, worked in the coat of mail.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.