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Winning His Spurs

CHAPTER XXIV
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Some here know your presence, and it would be better therefore that she did not arrive for some days, as her coming will then seem to be unconnected with yourself.
My wife and I will, a week hence, give out that we are going to fetch a cousin of my wife's to stay here with her; and when we return no suspicion will be excited that she is other than she seems.

Should it be otherwise, I need not say that Sir Baldwin of B,thune will defend his castle against any of the minions of Prince John.

But I have no fear that her presence here will be discovered.

What think you of doing in the meantime ?" "I am thinking," Cuthbert said, "of going east.

No news has been obtained of our lord the king save that he is a prisoner in the hands of the emperor; but where confined, or how, we know not.


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