Fair Helen by Andrew Greig

Author:Andrew Greig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Romance / Action & Adventure
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2015-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

We sat in the shelter of the arcade as the rain drew a curtain across the afternoon. As he murmured the last of his instructions, there came a clatter of footsteps, an opening door. The guard and a man in a wide-brimmed hat stood for a moment in the stone-clenched dimness, then, seeing us, swerved abruptly into another corridor.

Though his face was calm when I dared look at him, I sensed Buccleuch was vexed. My glimpse of that visitor was the only moment of our meeting my patron had not controlled. I raised my eyebrows as if in mild puzzlement, and took the purse handed me with a steady hand.

That hat, that long pale face, the manner of turning away—it had been no other than Dowie Fairfax, whom I had thought Earl Angus’s man.

Buccleuch stood, so I did too, fumbling for my hat. He put his hand on my shoulder and looked into my eyes. I tried to neither avoid his gaze nor meet it, to give him no glimpse of the turmoil within. It was, I think, my moment of greatest peril.

“O’er-late to ride, laddie,” he said at last. “Bide the night in the fine stables Bothwell left for us. I think you’ll find good company there. Enjoy them according to your tastes, but don’t keep them up too late, for I have use of them tomorrow!”

With that he gestured to an attendant to lead me out, and himself set off briskly in the direction the new arrival had taken.

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