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suppose, once you know, you can see it, but off-hand it wouldn't occur to you. 1 mean, that he was a crook. He's die spit of old Halsbury, come to think of it, and if Halsbury had a fault at ail it was that lie was too soft with the blighters in the dock. He used to lean over backwards to give them the benefit in his summing-up.'
'Do you know how die Princes were murdered?'
'I don't know a thing about Richard III except that his mother was two years conceiving him.'
'What! Where did you get that tale?'
'In my school history, I suppose.'
'You must have gone to a very remarkable school. Conception was not mentioned in any history book of mine. That is what made Shakespeare and the Bible so refreshing as lessons; the facts of life were always turning up. Did you ever bear of a man called Tyrrel?'
'Yes, he was a con. man on the P & O. boats. Drowned in die Egypt.'
'No; I mean, in history.'
'I tell you, I never knew any history except 1066 and 1603.'
'What happened in 1603?' Grant asked, his mind still on Tyrrel.
'We had die Scots tied to our tails for good.'
'Better than having them at our throats every five minutes. Tyrrel i
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