At the dead of night Caspar and Tom, with four picked men from the
guard, came to lead her away. Worn out by that time, and with
nothing to sustain her from within, she fancied they were going to
kill her, and giving way utterly, cried and shrieked aloud. Obdurate
however, as gentle, they gave no ear to her petitions, but bore her
through the western gate, and so to the brick gate in the rampart,
placed her in a carriage behind six horses, and set out with her for
Caerleon, where her mother lived in obscurity. At her door they set
her down, and leaving the carriage at Usk, returned to Raglan one by
one in the night, mounted on the horses. By the warders who admitted
them they were supposed to be returned from distinct missions on the
king's business.
Many were the speculations in the castle as to the fate of mistress
Amanda Serafina Fuller, but the common belief continued to be that
she had been carried off by Satan, body and soul.
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