[A Knight of the White Cross by G.A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookA Knight of the White Cross CHAPTER VI KNIGHTED 13/31
An hour later they left the port, the three galleys rowing ahead, while the five prizes, under easy sail, followed them. Sir John Boswell had been wounded, but not so seriously as to altogether disable him, and he was in command of one of the prizes, having Sir Adam Tedbond, Harcourt, Gervaise, and a German knight, with him.
Sir Marmaduke Lumley, who, after the first fight was over, was found, to the surprise and pleasure of his comrades, to be still living, was, with the rest of the wounded, on board one of the galleys.
Two of the pirates had fallen dead across him, and in the ardour of their attack on the knights, he had lain there unnoticed until the return of Sir Louis and his comrades had driven the pirates overboard.
The leech was of opinion that he might yet recover from his wound. On arriving at the island, sixty of the knights disembarked.
The woods near the shore were first searched, but were found untenanted.
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