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Title: A Boy Knight

Author: Martin J. (Martin Jerome) Scott

Release Date: May 13, 2010 [eBook #32365]

Language: English

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A BOY KNIGHT

by

MARTIN J. SCOTT, S. J.

[Illustration]

New York
P. J. Kenedy & Sons

Copyright, 1921
P. J. Kenedy & Sons
Printed in U.S.A.

TO
MR. AND MRS. NICHOLAS F. BRADY
WHOSE SOCIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES HAVE BROUGHT THE
SPIRIT OF KNIGHTHOOD INTO MANY HOMES
THIS VOLUME
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I. CROSS ROADS 3
II. THE NEW QUEST 56
III. COMRADES 104
IV. THE FIELD OF HONOR 137
V. THE HOLY GRAIL 178
VI. THE COST OF HONOR 210
VII. KNIGHTED 225

A BOY KNIGHT

Chapter I

Cross-Roads

IT was late November and a little snow had fallen. Three boys were on
their way down Park Avenue to school--the Regal High. One of the boys,
Frank Mulvy, carried his lunch in his pocket. He did not live far away,
but his mother was to be out for the day and had put up a lunch for him.
As the boys came down the avenue, an old man whom they had never seen
before, met them. He asked them for a few cents to get something to eat.
It happened that none of the boys had any money. They told him so, and
passed on. The man gave them a searching look and groaned.

When the boys had gone a block and turned the corner at Gody's drug
store, Frank Mulvy made an excuse to loiter a moment, and then turning
quickly, ran up the avenue. He overtook the poor man and handing him
the lunch which he had in his pocket, said:

"I'm sorry I hav