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Show Page 114 together in one place. You must take your oath before the governor and Council you know. Yet I should hate for you to have come any distance for naught-am I correct in assuming you have come some distance?" "From Martin's Hundred," I told him. "Then I shall do what I can to see you do not go home disappointed," he told me. He stood for a moment, tapping his noggin with a broad finger, then said, "Methinks I can corner Rolfe and Maycock. Those two, plus myself and the governor, should be enough to hear your oath. Meet me on the morrow an hour after sunrise at the Governor's Mansion. "I suppose the lieutenant will come too?" he asked, his voice wistful. Richard nodded. "I was afraid of that!" he said, smacking a pudgy fist into a pudgy palm. "I had hoped to have you all to myself," he whispered. Then, with another wink,he hurried off. "You are free to bide at my house this night," he called over his shoulder to Richard before he turned a corner. "It is simple to find. Just follow the sound of the merrymaking." When Pory had disappeared, Richard turned to me. "I'll see you to the home of the Pierces," he said, his voice strained, as I had never heard it. It was a silent walk. John Pory's teasing banter must |