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Friends, though divided

CHAPTER XIV
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Therefore he has resolved to fly.
Do you move from hence and take up your quarters at Kingston, where no curious questions are likely to be asked you.

I shall take lodgings at Ditton, and shall there await orders from the king.

It may be that he will change his mind, but of this Major Legg, who attends him in his bedchamber, will notify us.

Our design is to ride to the coast near Southampton and there take ship, and embark for France.

It is not likely that we shall be attacked by the way, but as the king may be recognized in any town through which we may pass, it is as well to have half a dozen good swords on which we can rely." "I have with me," Harry said, "my friend Jacob, who was lieutenant in my troop, and who can wield a sword well, and one of my old troopers, a stout and active lad.


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