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The Touchstone of Fortune

CHAPTER VI
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He is in London," said Nelly.

"I saw him at the Old Swan just before you left for Sheerness, nearly two months ago." "Odds fish!" swore his Majesty.

"We'll find a mission for him abroad." "You'll have to find him first," said Nelly.

"I've been down to the Old Swan to see him, but the girl there tells me he left the tavern long ago, and I suspect he is at his brother's house near St.Albans.But I'll tell you further." Then she told the king what Frances had said about a mysterious man whom Nelly asserted Frances both hated and loved.

She told him also that Frances had recognized one of the highwaymen who had robbed Roger Wentworth, and closed her narrative with an account of my cousin's refusal to recognize Hamilton and her eagerness to explain to him after the fight.
"So you see, Rowley dear, I put this and that together and concluded that Frances Jennings loves George Hamilton because she can't help it, and hates him because she recognized him as one of the murderers of Roger Wentworth.


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