The King Behind the King

The King Behind the King is novel written by the English novelist Warwick Deeping known for his famous novel Sorrell and Son. He started his literary career with historical romance novels and moved on later to modern life dealing the 20th century civilization. Among his more than 40 published works noted one include his first novel Uther and Igraine, Love Among the Ruins, The Slanderers, The Seven Streams, and The Return of the Petticoat.
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Fulk of the Forest had taken the way towards Witch’s Cross, with the full moon shining like a silver buckler behind him, to find himself standing at gaze among the yews of the Black Gill. Straight before him stretched a black aisle pillared and arched with huge yews. The aisle ended, like the choir of a church, in a great woodland window where the full moon hung, one yellow rim touching a flurry of clouds.
Fulk had drawn aside against the trunk of a tree, lean, alert, shadowy, conscious of something stirring away yonder in the glooms.  As he stood there watching, and straining his ears in the windless silence of the April night, he saw a figure move suddenly into the opening of this woodland window and remain there, outlined against the moon. The figure was wrapped in a loose cloak, and the peak and jagged edge of a hood showed up sharply. Moreover, a curved black line beside it betrayed the line of a strung bow.