To Have & To Hold by Mary Johnson Chapter 14 Page 8

in town.”

“Back so soon?” said the Italian. “Then we must change your lordship’s plan. With him on the ground, you can no longer wait until nightfall to row downstream to the lady and the Santa Teresa. He’ll come to look for her.”

“Ay he’ll come to look for her, curse him!” echoed my lord.

“Do you think the dead will scare him?” continued the Italian.

“No, I don’t!” answered my lord, with an oath. “I would he were among them! An I could have killed him before I went” —

“I had devised a way to do it long ago, had not your lordship’s conscience been so tender. And yet, before now, our enemies —