[The Secret Chamber at Chad by Evelyn Everett-Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Secret Chamber at Chad CHAPTER VI: Watched! 2/32
Those trading skippers are used to such jobs, and if they be paid they know how to hold their peace and ask no questions.
In Holland the brother will be safer than in any other land.
The spite of the Prior of Chadwater is not like to pursue him there.
But here his life is not safe from hour to hour." "And how if it comes to be known that thou hast planned this escape ?" asked the lady, a little anxiously. "I have thought of that too, dame," replied the knight, smiling. "Let but the good brother be safely out of the country, and whilst the hue and cry is still going on here after him I will to the king and tell him all the story.
Our pious Dean Colet, who knows Brother Emmanuel, and knows, too, that it is meet the corrupt practices that have crept within the pale of Holy Church should be made known, that they may be swept away and reformed, will stand my friend, and together we can so persuade his Majesty that even if the prior and Mortimer both combine to accuse me before him he will not allow their spite to touch me.
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