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'Not where Richard is concerned, I'm not,' Grant said 'But I've got a new piece of Tonypandy for you.'
And he handed him Laura's letter about the drowned women who were never drowned.
Carradine read it with a delight that grew on him like slow sunlight coming out, until eventually he glowed.
'My, but that's wonderful. That's very superior, first growth, dyed-in-the-wool Tonypandy, isn't it. Lovely, lovely. You didn't know about this before? And you a Scotsman?'
'I'm only a Scot once removed,' Grant pointed out. 'No; I knew that none of these Covenanters died "for their Faith", of course; but I didn't know that one of them-or rather, two of them-hadn't died at all.'
'They didn't die for their Faith?' Carradine repeated, bewildered. 'D'you mean that the whole thing's Tonypandy?'
Grant laughed. 'I suppose it is,' he said, surprised. never thought about it before. I've known so long that "martyrs" were no more martyrs than that thug who going to his death for killing that old shop-keeper in Essex that I've ceased to think about it. No one in Scotland went to his death for anything but civil crime.'
'But I thought they were very holy people-the Covenanters, I mean.'
'You've been looking at nineteenth-century pictures conventicles. The reverent little gathering in the heather listening to the preacher; young rapt faces, and white
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