Excerpt from The Royal Outlaw: A Novel ON a certain evening, in an upper room of a house in Gibeah, the royal city of the Kingdom of Israel, sat the Princess Michal, a daughter of King Saul and the wife of David ben Jesse of Bethlehem. With the young matron were her several handmaid ens. All were at needlework. The room was primi tive in the simplicity of its furnishing, howbeit the boudoir of a princess, for Israel was frugal: to live apart from one's cattle was luxury enough. There was a couch, a table, and Michal occupied a veritable chair, as any princess justly might, but her maids, bare footed, bare-armed, sat about her on the floor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.