Osmund unhooked his bugle from his belt, but before he could summon up enough breath to blow it, a strange-looking man came leaping out of the wood.
"Who dare stay my hounds? Who dare interfere with my quarry?" he shouted in a fury, and ran down upon the boy, his face scarlet with passion and a great knife gleaming in his hand.
A Crusader’s son saves an outlaw hunter’s dog and finds himself a friend of Robin Hood’s band. But how can mere forest outlaws save his family from the greedy favorites of Prince John? And the wild Welsh border is all too near. . . .