Gateway to the Classics: Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
 
Otto of the Silver Hand by  Howard Pyle
Table of Contents
Foreword
The Dragon's House
How the Baron Went Forth To Shear
How the Baron Came Home Shorn
The White Cross on the Hill
How Otto Dwelt at St. Michaelsburg
How Otto Lived in the Dragon's House
The Red Cock Crows on Drachenhausen
In the House of the Dragon Scorner
How One-eyed Hans Came to Trutz-Drachen
How Hans Brought Terror to the Kitchen
How Otto Was Saved
A Ride for Life
How Baron Conrad Held the Bridge
How Otto Saw the Great Emperor
Afterword

Afterword


[Illustration]

T HE ruins of Drachenhausen were rebuilt, for the walls were there as sound as ever, though empty and gaping to the sky; but it was no longer the den of a robber baron for beneath the scutcheon over the great gate was carved a new motto of the Vuelphs; a motto which the Emperor Rudolph himself had given:


"Manus argentea quam manus ferrea melior est"





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