title: Storms and Shipwrecks of New England
author:  Edward Rowe Snow 
description: <DIV>Edward Rowe Snow was a masterful storyteller famous for his tales of the sea and New England history. As the Flying Santa, he flew in small planes and helicopters over the lighthouses of New England, dropping Christmas parcels for the keepers and their families.</DIV>
zlib_text: One King's Way
  
  The Hammer and The Cross, book 2
  
  Harry Harrison
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Chapter 2
  
  Chapter 3
  
  Chapter 4
  
  Chapter 5
  
  Chapter 6
  
  Chapter 7
  
  Chapter 8
  
  Chapter 9
  
  Chapter 10
  
  Chapter 11
  
  Chapter 23
  
  Chapter 24
  
  Chapter 25
  
  Chapter 26
  
  Chapter 27
  
  Chapter 28
  
  Chapter 29
  
  Chapter 30
  
  Chapter 31
  
  Chapter 32
  
   **Chapter 33**
  
   **CONTENTS**
  
  Chapter 12
  
  Chapter 13
  
  Chapter 14
  
  Chapter 15
  
  Chapter 16
  
  Chapter 17
  
  Chapter 18
  
  Chapter 19
  
  Chapter 20
  
  Chapter 21
  
  Chapter 22
  
   **Chapter One**
  
  Frozen in the hard grip of the worst winter in memory, all of England lay
  under a frigid
  
  mantle of snow. The great river Thames was covered with ice from bank to bank.
  
  The road
  
  leading west to Winchester was a flint- hard, filthy track of frozen
  hoofprints and caked
  
  manure. The horses slipped on the ice, snorting out steaming vapors. Their
  riders, huddled
  
  and chilled, looked up at the dark walls of the great Minster and spurred
  their tired mounts
  
  with little result.
  
  This was the 21st of March of t