The Boy and the Baron
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- Chapter I What the Children Saw from the Playground on the Plateau
- Chapter II How Karl the Armorer Took the Shining Knight’s Treasure from Among the Osiers
- Chapter III How Wulf Fared at Karl the Armorer’s Hut
- Chapter IV Of How Wulf First Went to the Castle, and What Befell
- Chapter V How Wulf Went to the Swartzburg, and of His Beginning There
- Chapter VI How Conradt Plotted Mischief, and How Wulf Won a Friend
- Chapter VII How Wulf Climbed the Ivy Tower, and What He Saw at the Barred Window
- Chapter VIII How Baron Everhardt Was Outlawed, and How Wulf Heard of the Baby in the Osiers
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X How Wulf Took Elise from the Swartzburg
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII How Wulf Took the Emperor’s Message to Karl of the Forge
- Chapter XIII How Word of His Danger Came to Wulf at the Forge
- Chapter XIV Of the Great Battle That Was Fought, and of How Wulf Saved the Day
- Chapter XV How the Shining Knight’s Treasure Was Brought to Light
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