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Mistress Wilding

CHAPTER XIX
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Look you, Anthony.

Speed to Colonel Wade as fast as your legs can carry you, and get a score of men.

Then find some fellow to lead you to Newlington's orchard, and if only you do not arrive too late you may take Sir Rowland and his cut-throats in the rear and destroy them to a man before they realize themselves attacked.

I'll reconnoitre while you go, and keep an eye on the front of the house.
Away with you!" Ordinarily Wilding was a man of a certain dignity, but you had not thought it had you seen him running in silk stockings and silver-buckled shoes at a headlong pace through the narrow streets of Bridgwater, in the direction of the Castle.

He overset more than one, and oaths followed him from these and from others whom he rudely jostled out of his path.


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