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Red Axe

CHAPTER VI
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In every parish of the Mark there is a parson.

Every clerk of them hath a Presbytery, in which he dwells with those that are abiding with him.

Bid you the soldiers that are obedient to you to carry all the corpses of the dead to the Presbytery, and leave them there under guard.

Then let us see whether or no the parsons will give them burial.
What think you of the counsel, Duke Casimir ?" I could hear the Duke rise and pace across the floor to where my father sat on his bed.

And by the silence I knew that the two men were shaking hands.
"Red Axe," said the Duke, much moved, "of a truth you are a great man--none like you in the Dukedom.


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