[Sir Ludar by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookSir Ludar CHAPTER TWENTY THREE 13/17
Farewell, my son, see you get good type for the money, and bring it quickly.
So, Heaven speed you." When he was gone I went up and found Ludar mad with hunger and impatience. "What news ?" said he, "and speak not to me unless it be to say, dinner is served." He looked pale and harassed, and I think, although the little room had a bed and a chair, he had stood upright in it all day, touching nothing. But when I had him down to dinner, he touched a good deal, and told me, in explanation, that the meal I gave him last night had been the first for three days, and that, then, he was too eager for news to take all he might. When I told him of the hue and cry, and how near the watch was on the scent, he turned to me and said: "Where shall we go, Humphrey ?" Which meant, that wherever he went, he counted on me to follow.
So I told him of my errand to Rochelle, and of the _Misericorde_, which lay below the Bridge.
Then his face brightened. "That is well," said he.
"It matters not whether we go to France or the Pole, so I breathe some freer air than this of England.
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