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sroads but although she waited for several hou

You must go to the same place for several days. I feel sure that if Mary can compass it

midst. Not as before on a horse but in a coach. As she stood with uncovered head the party swept by her without stopping. The queen bowed and

, "what shall I do? What can I do?" But the equipage swept on bearing

ather did well to say that Sir Amyas was an austere man. Little doth it comfort Mary t

r eye was caught by a filmy bit of linen

eagerly. "How foolish to repine when I shou

she found it covered over with a lot of ch

her bosom. "Mayhap he can decipher it." And she hastened to re

entively. "It is my good fortune to have the key to some of the ciphers which she

r father applied himself to the task of deciphering

ted in a basin of water and then held to the fire; the secret writing then appears white and may easily be read until the paper gets dry. You may write in this manner on white taffeta or white linen, especially lawn; and as a token when anything is written on a piece of taffeta or linen a little snip can be cut 69 off from

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to give her the papers and letters. 'Tis my belief that they would be as easy to deliver as to tr

the plan,

me with one hundred men and carry Mary off. Her escort seldom consists of more

Sir Amyas's men follow

uld have no power over her, and her son, unfilial though he hath shown himself, could not for very shame ref

e those lette

false when I would discover a way. It is

ch overhung a large yard, surrounded by the stables of the hostelry. Some yeomen were dressing thei

he cried, "pri

is?" asked Lord St

the cart that has j

s."

he, thi

. What doth make thee so

s a carter he would go

hy meaning. How fu

iled, much

ter Chartley as a carter? The thing is to get within th

ere are guards within as well. 'Twould stil

determination. "I will enter into talk with that carter and see what can b

seems to have shifted its weight to thy shoulders. Find if the lad 72 goes to Chartley, and if so,

suming the careless frowardness o

ide of the boy who was busily engaged in removing

illy. "It hath been some days since I saw your w

heer to be found at the Red Hand," quoth Fra

ading the cart, delivering, and unloading agai

doth it a

artley

73 Scotland is confined?" asked Fra

very

ver see

been at Chartley. She takes the air in the early morning in the

t see her. Could I-c

or a moment and th

res within the gates. And Sir Amyas is that parti

he queen. And see! here is a gold piece that thou cans

l appeared reluctant. "Well, it shall be as you wish, my young maste

shall I wear

urst not do this if thou shouldst want else but to

t may look at a king, I tr

w. Woulds

, W

must be up with the la

til then. Thou wilt not regret thy

not, m

. Farewell til

k to her father to report t