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Guy Fawkes

CHAPTER XX
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"They are here," he cried, reining in his steed.
"Where is Viviana ?" vociferated his companion, who was no other than Humphrey Chetham.
"Here--here," replied Guy Fawkes.
With the quickness of thought, the young merchant was by her side, and in another moment she was placed on the saddle before him, and borne at a headlong pace across the drawbridge.
"Follow me," cried Catesby.

"I will clear a passage for you.

Once across the drawbridge, you are safe.

A hundred yards down the avenue, on the right, you will find a couple of horses tied to a tree.

Quick! quick!" As he spoke, a shot whizzed past his head, and a tumultuous din in the rear told that their pursuers were close upon them.


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