Avon Modern Short Story Monthly #36 — page 43: what you’re looking at

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MES ieee sets aia SN pi ie tis EAT Ok Tee Ad : rn nik : iB re: Seco a ce - y 7 3 ¥ . CHARLES THE BOLD AND e Q SAPPHIRA DANVELT _ ae HEN Philip the Good succumbed at Bruges of on A apoplexy in the early part of the year 1467, the occasion was be i. sented to. the stout folk of Flanders as a favourable one to break tl the a by the agents of that astute king, Louis XI, wh ever prefered, g ie to the direct and costly exertion of force. Burgundy, was of all the French King’s enemies by far che’ mo: st el sy formidable and menacing just then; and the wily King, who knew a5 better than to measure himself with a foe that was formidable, coe er ceived a way to embarrass the Duke and cripple his resources at the aH 1 is very outset of his reign. To this end did he send his agents into the . ee Duke’ s Flemish dominions, there to intrigue with the po a8 a. the hearts of those turbulent bueilee ets) It was from the Belfry Tower of the populous, olla city ¢ of a ie asedibideca: From Ghent the fierce flame of revolt weead es: co the valley of the Meuse, and the scarcely less important a of sete as ready for battle as the weavers of Ghent. | oe Peo. os r They made a brave enough show until Charles the Bold cnet a face to face with them at Saint-Trond, and aan the —— a