The priest who performed the marriage was dead.

The records were lost.

The evil said there had been no marriage, and that you were no rightful member of the great family of De Clermont.

We could not prove the marriage then and so you were left for the time with Willet." "Why did Willet take me ?" Raymond Louis de St.Luc turned to Willet, who sat on the other side of the pallet, and smiled.
"I will answer you, Robert," said the hunter.

"I was one of those who loved your mother.