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Fair Margaret

CHAPTER XIV
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You wander still, Senor." "Inez what ?" he asked.
"Inez only," she answered, "Inez, a woman of Granada, the rest is lost.
Inez, the nurse of sick men, Senor." "Where then is Margaret--the English Margaret ?" A veil of secrecy seemed to fall over the woman's face, and her voice changed as she answered, no longer ringing true, or so it struck his senses made quick and subtle by the fires of fever: "I know no English Margaret.

Do you then love her--this English Margaret ?" "Aye," he answered, "she was stolen from me; I have followed her from far, and suffered much.

Is she dead or living ?" "I have told you, Senor, I know nothing, although"-- and again the voice became natural--"it is true that I thought you loved somebody from your talk in your illness." Peter pondered a while, then he began to remember, and asked again: "Where is Castell ?" "Castell?
Was he your companion, the man with a hurt arm who looked like a Jew?
I do not know where he is.

In another part of the city, perhaps.
I think that he was sent to his friends.

Question me not of such matters, who am but your sick-nurse.


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