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The Lion’s Skin

CHAPTER XVII
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She wore a long, dark cloak and hood, but her veil was turned back.

A chair was waiting not fifty paces from them along the churchyard wall.
"I came but to tell you how much I feel for you in this great loss," she said.
He looked at her in amazement.

"How did you know ?" he asked her.
"I guessed," said she.

"I heard that you were with him at the end, and I caught stray words from her ladyship of what had passed.

Lord Rotherby had the information from the tipstaff who went to arrest Sir Richard Everard.


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