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The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn

CHAPTER 19: The Cross Way House
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After that he will to London, to see how it fares with his cousins there, and to tell my uncle something of his tale, demanding, as I right well believe, the hand of our cousin Cherry in wedlock, since he may now support a wife in all comfort and ease.

When that is done he will hither again, and Lady Humbert will ask to her house a gathering of kinsfolk for the Yuletide festival.
And then the great secret will be told.

The treasure will be divided between the Trevlyns assembled beneath this roof; and I trow, sweet Kate, that my Lord Culverhouse will contrive to be here, and that when the good news has been told to all, he will have small work in getting the parental blessing for those nuptials that will be celebrated anew with pomp and rejoicing, and will make thee in very truth, and without shadow of a doubt, the Viscountess Culverhouse." Kate, laughing and quivering, clasped Petronella in her arms, as she cried between laughter and tears: "And when that good hap befalls me, sweet Petronella, I will warrant that Philip will be in no wise behind in claiming his bride, and that thou as well as I shalt find that the recovered treasure of Trevlyn has smoothed our path to wedded happiness!".


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