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The Brethren

CHAPTER Twenty-One: What Befell Godwin
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If you love him, he bids that you will obey.'" "I never saw Masouda! I never spoke such words! I knew nothing of this plot!" exclaimed Wulf, and the brethren looked at each other with white faces.
"Speak on," said Godwin; "afterwards we can debate." "Moreover," continued Rosamund, bowing her head, "Masouda added these words, 'I think that Sir Wulf will escape his doom.

If you would see him again, obey his word, for unless you obey you can never hope to look upon him living.

Go, now, before we are both discovered, which would mean your death and mine, who, if you go, am safe.'" "How knew she that I should escape ?" asked Wulf.
"She did not know it.

She only said she knew to force Rosamund away," answered Godwin in the same strained voice.

"And then ?" "And then--oh! having Wulf's express commands, then I went, like one in a dream.


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