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away from the small woolly clouds over the Thames and considered Grant with a question in it.
'Why that tone?' he asked. 'Why are you looking like a cat with cream?'
'Well, I've been proceeding along police lines. During those empty days while I was waiting for you to turn up again.'
'Police lines?'
'Yes. Who benefits, and all that. We've discovered that it wouldn't be a pin's-worth of advantage to Richard that the boys should die. So we go on looking round to see who, in that case, it would benefit. And this is where Titulus Regius comes in.'
'What has Titulus Regius got to do with the murder?'
'Henry VII married the boys' eldest sister. Elizabeth.'
'Yes.'
'By way of reconciling the Yorkists to his occupation of the throne.'
'Yes.'
'By repealing Titulus Regius, he made her legitimate.'
'Sure.'
'But by making the children legitimate he automatically made the two boys heir to the throne before her. In fact, by repealing Titulus Regius he made the elder of the two King of England.'
Carradine made a little clicking sound with his tongue. His eyes behind their horn-rims were glowing with pleasure.
'So,' said Grant, 'I propose that we
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