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Fair Margaret

CHAPTER XXIII
11/23

"She was brought within the walls of the Holy House by some one who had a grudge against her and bore false witness." "Yes, I know.

It was you who had the grudge, you snake-souled rogue, and it was you who gave the false witness.

It was you, also, who but the other day volunteered the corroborative evidence that was necessary against Castell, saying that he had passed the Rood at your house in Motril without doing it reverence, and other things.

It was you, too, who urged your superiors to put him to the question, because you said he was rich and had rich friends, and much money could be wrung out of him and them, whereof you were to get your share.

Oh! yes, my information is good, is it not?
Even what passes in the dungeons of the Holy House comes to the ears of the woman Inez.


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