[The Touchstone of Fortune by Charles Major]@TWC D-Link bookThe Touchstone of Fortune CHAPTER VIII 42/49
She never goes any place else, and it only now occurs to me to be alarmed." "Only now ?" he demanded angrily.
"What have you been doing? I supposed you were watching over her.
A fine guardian, upon my word! Where is she? Carried off by the king, of course! What else have you expected from our friend at Whitehall? If harm comes to her, I'll kill him!" He threw off his printer's cap and apron, hastily cleansed his face and hands, put on the gray beard and wig, took his broad hat and long coat from the chest, and started toward the door, bidding me follow. "Where are you going ?" I asked. "To Whitehall," he replied.
"You to learn, if you can, where Frances is; I to form my plans what to do in case you do not find her.
You must go to the river ahead of me and take a boat.
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