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The Path of the King

CHAPTER 2
16/45

The sweepings of all Europe have drifted with us to England, and it is our business to make bonfire of them before they breed a plague....

See to the wounded man, likewise.
He may be one of the stout house-carles who fought with Harold at Stamford, and to meet us raced like a gale through the length of England.

By the Mount of the Archangel, I would fain win such mettle to our cause." Presently the hut was empty save for the two soldiers, who faced each other while the lantern flickered to its end on the rafters.
"The good Odo is dead," said the knight.

"An arrow in the left eye has bereft our Duke of a noble ally and increased the blessedness of the City of Paradise.

You are masterless now.


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