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Or do you rate special?'
Grant looked at him almost unbelieving. 'Don't tell me you've turned up a French instance!'
'Didn't you want me to?'
'Yes. But I hardly dared hope for it. The odds against seemed tremendous. What form did the rumour take in France? A chronicle? A letter?'
'No. Something much more surprising. Something much more dismaying, actually. It seems that the Chancellor of France, in a speech to the States-General at Tours, spoke of the rumour. Indeed he was quite eloquent about it. In a way, his eloquence was the one scrap of comfort I could find in the situation.'
'Why?'
'Well, it sounded more to my mind like a Senator being hasty about someone who had brought in a measure his own people back home wouldn't like. More like politics than State, if you know what I mean.'
'You should be at the Yard, Brent. What did the Chancellor say?'
'Well, it's in French and my French isn't very good so perhaps you'd better read it for yourself?
He handed over a sheet of his childish writing and Grant read:
Regardez, je vow prie, les 茅v茅nements qui apr猫s la mort du roi Edouard sont arrives dans cc pays. Contemplez ses enfants, d茅j脿 grands et braves, massacres impun茅ment, et la cour
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