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The Ship of Stars

CHAPTER X
18/24

And at once the Prince forgot all about his wife and child; and John forgot too.
"For weeks after this the Prince complained that he felt unwell.
He told the doctors that there was an empty place in his head, and they advised him to fill it by travelling.

So he set out again, and John went with him as before.

On their journey they stayed for a week with the King of Spain, and there the Prince fell in love with the King of Spain's daughter, and married her, and brought her home at the end of a year, during which she, too, had brought him a son.
"The night after their return, when the Prince and his second wife slept, John kept watch outside the door.

About midnight he heard the noise of a chain dragging, but very softly, and up the stairs came a lady in white with a child in her arms.

John knew his former mistress at once, and all his memory came back to him, but she put a finger to her lips and went past him into the bed-chamber.


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