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'A little comfort, too. I found after I had written that panic wire to you that he wasn't at all to be taken as gospel. He just put down what gossip came his way from the outer world. He says, for instance, that Richard had a second coronation, at York; and that of course just isn't true. If he can be wrong about a big, known, fact like a coronation, then he's not to be trusted as a reporter. But he did know about Titulus Regius, by the way. He recorded the whole tenor of it, including Lady Eleanor.'
'That's interesting. Even a monk at Croyland had heard who Edward was supposed to have been married to.'
'Yes. The sainted More must have dreamed up Elizabeth Lucy a good deal later.'
'To say nothing of the unspeakable story that Richard based his claim on his mother's shame.'
'What?'
'He says that Richard caused a sermon to be preached claiming that Edward and George were his mother's sons by some other father, and that he, Richard, was the only legitimate son and therefore the only true heir.'
'The sainted More might have thought up a more convincing one,' young Carradine said dryly.
'Yes. Especially when Richard was living in his mother's house at the time of the libel!'
'So he was. I'd forgotten that. I don't have a proper police brain. That's very neat, what you say about Morton being the carrier of the rumour. But suppose the rumour turns up somewhere else, even yet.'
'It's possible, of course. But I'm willing to lay you fifties to any amount that it won't. I don't for one moment believe that there was any general rumour that the boys were missing.'
'Why not?'
'For a reason that I hold to be unanswerable. If there had been any general uneasines
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