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In Freedom’s Cause

CHAPTER VII
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When I was a boy I was tending a herd of goats far up in the hills, and near the pass where this mischance has today befallen us I found a cave in the mountain's side.

Its entrance was hidden by bushes, and I should not have found it had not one of the goats entered the bush and remained there so long that I went to see what he was doing.

There I found a cave.

The entrance was but three feet high, but inside it widened out into a great cavern, where fifty men could shelter.
Perchance Archie Forbes or some of his band may also have discovered it; and if so, they might well think that no better place of concealment could be found." "We will search it tomorrow," the knight said.

"Tell the vassals to gather here three hours before daybreak.


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