When I saw you ride in just now I thought, well, for a moment …” He shook his head admiringly. “What a pity John Allday is not here to see you!”Captain Adam Bolitho walked into the great room, his eyes taking in everything, noticing small changes. The hand of a lady.He said, “I hear he has been in Portsmouth, Bryan.”“You know of the court martial, sir?”Adam walked to the great fireplace and touched the family crest above it. Remembering. Remembering so many things. How, when only fourteen years old, he had walked all the way from Penzance where his mother had died, with a scrap of paper and the name of the one man who would take care of him. This home was like his own. Sir Richard Bolitho had made certain it would be his one day, just as he had given him the family name.He remembered what Ferguson had asked him. “Aye, the whole fleet must know by now.” He changed the subject. “I saw my uncle’s carriage in the stable yard. Is he here yet?”Ferguson shook his head.
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