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Sir Ludar

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
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And he, having no liking to see his master married and himself, perhaps, cast out of service, willingly offered to help her when the time came.

So she bade him be ready with a horse at midnight of the very day they reached London, and to bring the other English fellow, if needs be, also.
The rest of the story I knew.

How Tom Price had carried her to her old nunnery school at Canterbury; and how the fellow Gedge (though Tom had no mind to share the reward with him), discovered what was afoot and went to Canterbury too.

And how Peter Stoupe, having heard the secret from the drunken sergeant, had found out the Captain, and sold the same to him; and, finally, after getting the honest watchdog out of the way, how, disguised as priests, those two villains had invaded the convent and, but for the Providence which took me thither, might have had her across seas and at their mercy long since.
"So, my good Humphrey," said the maiden, "once more I owe you more than my life.

I cannot repay you, but Heaven will.


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