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The Tavern Knight

CHAPTER XXI
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For some eighteen years this Galliard has believed dead a son that my cousin bore him.

News of this son, whom I have just informed him lives--as indeed he does--is the bait wherewith I have lured him to your address.

Forewarned by the present, I make no doubt you will prepare to receive him fittingly.

But ere that justice he escaped at Worcester be meted out to him at Tyburn or on Tower Hill, I would have you give him that news touching his son which I am sending him to you to receive.

Inform him, sir, that his son, Jocelyn Marleigh...
Hogan paused, and shot a furtive glance at Galliard.


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