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I don't know as much as you about what stands up in court and what won't, but it seems to me that that snail's trail is a very allowable deduction-if you'll allow me. I don't suppose Morton waited till he was overseas before beginning his undermining.'
'No. No, of course he didn't. It was life and death to Morton that Richard should go. Unless Richard went, John Morton's career was over. He was finished. It wasn't even that there would be no preferment for him now. There would be nothing. He would be stripped of his numerous livings and be reduced to his plain priest's frock. He, John Morton. Who had been within touching distance of an archbishopric. But if he could help Henry Tudor to a throne then he might still become not only Archbishop of Canterbury but a Cardinal besides. Oh, yes; it was desperately, overwhelmingly important to Morton that Richard should not have the governing of England.'
'Well,' said Brent, 'he was the right man for a job of subversion. I don'
t suppose he knew what a scruple was. A little rumour like infanticide must have been child's play to him.'
'There's always the odd chance that he believed it, of course,' Grant said, his habit of weighing evidence overcoming even his dislike of Morton.
'Believed that the boys were murdered?'
'Yes. It may have been someone else's invention. After all, the country must have been swarming with Lancastrian tales, part mere ill-will, part propaganda. He may have been merely passing on the latest sample.'
'Huh! I wouldn't put it past him to be paving the way for their future murder,' Brent said tartly.
Grant laughed. 'I wouldn't, at that,' he said. 'What else did you get from your monk at Croyland?'
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