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The Boy Knight

CHAPTER XXIII
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It is between you and your conscience.

If, as you say, you have saved me from the power of the outlaws, I demand that, as a knight and a gentleman, you return with me at once to the convent from which I was taken by force." "I cannot do that," Sir Rudolph said.

"Fortune has placed you in my hands, and has enabled me to carry out the commands of the prince.
Therefore, though I would fain yield to your wishes and so earn your good-will, which above all things I wish to obtain, yet my duty toward the prince commands me to utilize the advantage which fate has thrown in my hands." "You must do as you will, Sir Rudolph," the girl said with dignity.

"I believe not your tale.

You sought before, in person, to carry me off, but failed, and you have now employed other means to do so.


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