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Red Eve

CHAPTER XV
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In yonder case are certain papers that have to do with the King's business.
I pray you deliver them to his Grace if you can and with them my homage and my thanks for the trust that he has reposed in me.

Tell him what I have not written in the letters"-- and here he smiled faintly--"that I think that few of his creditors in Venice will trouble him at present, though afterward their heirs, if they have left any, may do so.

Say, too, to the Doge, who, I believe, still lives, that I send him my good wishes and respects.

Also that I grieve that I have not been able to hand him my letters of recall in person, since the King who summons me sends none.
"So much for business, but there are two things more: I have no relatives living save my wife's sister.

Therefore, Sir Hugh and Captain Richard, I have made you my joint heirs with her; my testament duly signed and witnessed is in that case with the other papers.


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