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'Because it isn't news to anyone. Everyone has known all about those things all along.'
'Known? About what?'
'About Richard not having killed the boys at all, and all that.'
'They've known? Since when!' 'Oh, hundreds and hundreds of years.'
'Pull yourself together, chum. It's only four hundred years altogether since the thing happened.'
'I know. But it doesn't make any difference. People have known about Richard's not doing it for hundreds and hundreds-'
'Will you stop that keening and talk sense. When did this-this rehabilitation first begin?'
'Begin? Oh, at the first available moment.'
'When was that?'
'As soon as the Tudors were gone and it was safe to talk.'
'In Stuart times, you mean?'
'Yes, I suppose-yes. A man Buck wrote a vindication in the seventeenth century. And Horace Walpole in the eighteenth. And someone called Markham in the nineteenth.'
'And who in the twentieth?'
'No one that I know of.'
'Then what's wrong with your doing it?'
'But it won't be the same, don't you see. It won't be a great discovery!' He said it in capitals. A Great Discovery.
Grant smiled at him. 'Oh, come! You c
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