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The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850 - 1894)

3-5 The Good Hope, continued

In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where allegiances shift under one's feet. Circumstances cause him to fall in with a gentlemaiden in boy's disguise. Until he learns of the deception, Dick is unaware that the young lady is an heiress whom his guardian Sir Daniel had kidnapped. And the introduction of an outlaw with a penchant for putting black arrows into the bodies of the men who had wronged him affords Dick a worrying hint - that Sir Daniel might have been the man that had murdered Dick's father! - Summary by Mark F. Smith

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Listen next episodes of The Black Arrow:
3-6 The Good Hope, concluded , 4-1 The Den , 4-2 "In Mine Enemies' House" , 4-3 The Dead Spy , 4-4 In the Abbey Church , 4-5 Earl Risingham , 4-6 Arblaster Again , 5-1 The Shrill Trumpet , 5-2 The Battle of Shoreby , 5-3 The Battle of Shoreby, concluded , 5-4 The Sack of Shoreby , 5-5 Night in the Woods: Alicia Risingham , 5-6 Night in the Woods (concluded: Dick and Joan , 5-7 Dick's Revenge , 5-8 Conclusion