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King?"'
'Yes. That Morton. Henry's best thumb-screw. And I've just thought of a reason why he might have a personal hatred for Richard. long before the murder of the boys.'
'Yes?'
'Edward took a large bribe from Louis XI to make a dishonourable peace in France. Richard was very angry about that - it really was a disgraceful affair - and washed his hands of the business. Which included refusing a large cash offer. But Morton was very much in favour both of the deal and the cash. Indeed he took a pension from Louis. A very nice pension it was. Two thousand crowns a year. I don't suppose Richard's outspoken comments went down very well, even with good gold for a chaser.'
'No. I guess not.'
'And of course there would be no preferment for Morton under the strait-laced Richard as there had been under the easy-going Edward. So he would have taken the Woodville side, even if there had been no murder.'
'About that murder -' the boy said; and paused.
'Yes?'
'About that murder the murder of those two boys -isn't it odd that no one talks of it?'
'How do you mean: no one talks of it?'
'These last three days I've been going through contemporary papers: letters
and what not. And no one mentions them at all.'
'Perhap
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