The White Horses

THE WHITE HORSES
HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE
Author of Ricroft of Withers, The Open Road, A Chateau in Picardy, The Strength of the Hills, etc.
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED LONDON, MELBOURNE AND TORONTO 1916
To my Sister's Memory
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
Illustrations
THE WHITE HORSES.
CHAPTER I.
WHO RIDES FOR THE KING?
Up through the rich valley known now as Wensleydale, but in those days marked by the lustier name of Yoredale, news had crept that there was civil war in England, that sundry skirmishes had been fought already, and that His Majesty was needing all leal men to rally to his standard.