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Book, page 101 / 163 and go not to this fearful Castle. It is a trap--a snare laid to be your death, by the foulest treachery!" "Silence, Arthur!" said the Knight, sternly. "Know you not what treason you speak? Some trick has been played on your simplicity, and yet you--child as you are--should as soon think shame of your own father as of the Prince, the very soul of honour." "Oh, it is not the Prince: he knows nought of it; it is those double traitors, the Baron of Clarenham and Sir Leonard Ashton, who have worked upon him and deceived him." "Oh, ho!" said Gaston. "The story now begins to wear some semblance of probability." Arthur turned, looking perplexed. "Master d'Aubricour," said he, "I forgot that you were here. This is a secret which should have been for my uncle's ears alone." "Is it so?" said Gaston; "then I will leave the room, if it please you and the Knight--though methought I was scarce small enough to be so easily overlooked; and having heard the half--" "You had best hear the whole," said Arthur. "Uncle Eustace, what think you?" "I know not what to think, Arthur. You must be your own judge." Arthur's young brow wore a look of deep thought; at last he said, "Do not go then, Gaston. If I have done wrong, I must bear the blame, and, be it as it may, my uncle needs must tell you all that I may tell him." "Let us hear, then," said Eustace. "Well, then," said Arthur, who had by this time collected himself, "you must know that this Chateau Norbelle is one of those built by that famous Paladin, the chief of freebooters, Sir Renaud de Montauban, of whom you have told me so many tales. Now all of these have secret passages in the vaults communicating with the
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