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"Lady Featherstone!" said Misset "Who can she be?"

Wogan told the with Lady Featherstone on the

Florence road, but he knew noat all

"So the secret's out," said Gaydon "But you outstripped it"

"Barely," said Wogan "Forty ht for my

life"

"But you have the Prince's written consent?" said Misset

"I had last night, but I ainst me Had that been found on my dead body, why, there was

proof positive of our atteuards As it is, if we lie still a little while, their fears will

cease and the rumour become discredited"

Misset leaned across Gaydon's arhness writes most clearly she will not an drew frole

turquoise

"Here's a token no less sure It was Prince Sobieski's New Year's gift

toThisJohn of Poland, took it from the Grand Vizier's

tent when the Turks were routed at Vienna"

O'Toole reached out his hand and engulfed the jewel