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The Black Douglas

CHAPTER LIII
10/17

I have never lost sight of you since you came to this fatal land of Retz.

I have been near you when you knew it not.

To accomplish this I have deceived the man who is my taskmaster, swearing to him that in the witch crystal I have seen you depart.

And I shall yet deceive him in more deadly fashion." Sholto could restrain himself no longer.
"Enough," he said roughly; "tell us whether the maidens are alive, and if they are abiding in this Castle of Machecoul." The Lady Sybilla did not remove her eyes from the red west.
"Thus far they are safe," she said, in the same calm monotone.

"This very hour I have come from the White Tower, in which they are confined.


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