Dead Men Tell No Tales

own death behind them in the boat. And here the motive was as much a mystery to me as the means; but, in my present state, both were also matters of supreme indifference. My one desire was to rescue my love from her loathsome captors; of little else did I pause to think. Yet Rattray’s visit left its own mark on my mind; and long after he was gone I lay puzzling over the connection between a young Lancastrian, of good name,


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own death behind them in the boat. And here the motive was as much a mystery to me as the means; but, in my present state, both were also matters of supreme indifference. My one desire was to rescue my love from her loathsome captors; of little else did I pause to think. Yet Rattray’s visit left its own mark on my mind; and long after he was gone I lay puzzling over the connection between a young Lancastrian, of good name,


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