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Scarhaven Keep

CHAPTER XIV
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Is it possible there can be two persons of that name?
That, at any rate, is the first thing that strikes me." "It is not the first thing that strikes me," said Mrs.Greyle.She took up the typescript which the old actor had brought in his packet, and held its title-page significantly before him.

"That is the first thing that strikes me!" she exclaimed.

"The Marston Greyle who sent this to Bassett Oliver said according to your story--that he sprang from a very old family in England, and that this is a dramatization of a romantic episode in its annals.

Now there is no other old family in England named Greyle, and this episode is of course, the famous legend of how Prince Rupert once sought refuge in the Keep yonder and had a love-passage with a lady of the house.

Am I right, Mr.Dennie ?" "Quite right, ma'am, quite correct," replied the old actor.


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