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Charles cast an eye upon the signature, then taking the quill himself, signed under it, then bore the document to the half-swooning bride. "Keep this secure," he bade her. "It is your marriage-gift from me." Rhynsault's eyes gleamed. If his wife were to keep the deed, the thing was none so desperate after all. But the next moment he had other things to think of.
My lord" she held out her hands towards the grim German, and her lovely eyes gleamed with unshed tears of supplication "I implore you to believe me, and in default of witnesses against him to restore my husband to me." Rhynsault's blue eyes kindled now as they considered her, and his full red lips slowly parted in the faintest and most inscrutable of smiles.
Now, amongst those arrested and flung into Middelburg gaol as a result of Rhynsault's ruthless perquisitions and inquisitions was a wealthy young burgher named Philip Danvelt. His arrest was occasioned by a letter signed "Philip Danvelt" found in the house of a marked rebel who had been first tortured and then hanged.
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