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) for disaffection.
It was brought home to him for the first time not only what a useless thing the murder of the boys would have been, but what a silly thing.
And if there was anything that Richard of Gloucester was not, beyond a shadow of a shadow of doubt, it was silly.
He looked up Oliphant to see what Oliphant had to say on this obvious crack in the story.
'It is strange,' said Oliphant, 'that Richard does not seem to have published any version of their deaths.'
It was more than strange: it was incomprehensible.
If Richard had wanted to murder his brother's sons, then he most certainly would have done it expertly.
They would have died of a fever, and their bodies would have been exposed to the public gaze as royal bodies habitually were, so that all men would know that they were in fact departed from this life.
No one can say that a man is incapable of murder - after long years on the Embankment Grant knew that Only too well - but one can be sure to within one degree of the absolute when a man is incapable of silliness.
Oliphant had no doubts about the murder, nevertheless. Richard according to Oliphant was Richard the Monster. Perhaps when an historian was covering a field as large as the Middle Ages and the Renaissance he had no time to stop and analyse detail. Oliphant accepted the sainted More, even while he paused in flight to wonder at an oddity here and there. Not seeing that the oddities ate away at the very foundations of his theory.
Having Oliphant in his hand, he went on with Oliphant. On through the triumphal progress through England after the coronation. Oxfotd, Gloucester, Worcester, Warwick. No dissentient voice was recorded on that tour. Only a
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