[A Prince of Cornwall by Charles W. Whistler]@TWC D-Link bookA Prince of Cornwall CHAPTER IX 1/32
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WHY IT WAS NOT GOOD FOR OWEN TO SLEEP IN THE MOONLIGHT. It needs not that I should tell of the farewell of the next day.
I went from Pembroke with many messages for Owen, and a promise that if I might ever come over with him I would do so.
The princess was busy with the lady who was to cross with Thorgils, and I did not find one chance of telling her that I thanked her for her warning, but I found the page who gave me the letter, and bade him tell his mistress when we had gone that she had taught me to look in the face of a fellow passenger, which would be token enough that I understood. Dunwal and his daughter had some few men and pack horses with them, and one Cornish maiden who attended Mara, so that we were quite a little train as we rode from Pembroke toward Tenby in the late afternoon, with a score of Howel's guards to care for us in all honour.
Part of the way, too, Howel rode, and when we came to the hill above the Caerau woods, and looked down on the winding waters again, he said to me: "I have forgotten to tell you that my men took Evan.
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