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mporary account of events. They must ,have been country-rocking events. I want to read a contemporary's account of them. Not what someone heard-tell about events that happened when he, was five, and under another regime altogether.'
'I'll find out who the contemporary historian is. Fabyan, perhaps. Or is he Henry VII? Anyway, I'll find out. And meanwhile perhaps you'd like a look at Oliphant. He's the modern authority on the period, or so I under-stand.'
Grant said that he would be delighted to take a look at Sir Cuthbert.
'I'll drop him in when I'm passing tomorrow -.1 suppose it'll be all right if I leave him in the office for you? - and as soon as I find out about the contemporary writers I'll be In with the news. That suit you?'
Grant said that that was perfect.
Young Carradine went suddenly shy, reminding Grant of the woolly lamb which he had quite forgotten in the interest of this new approach to Richard. He said good night in a quiet smothered way, and ambled out of the room followed by the sweeping skirts of his topcoat.
Grant thought that, the Carradine fortune apart, Atlanta Shergold looked like being on a good thing.
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'WELL,' said Marta when she came again, 'what did you think of my woolly lamb?