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nephew at all?" The men-at-arms showed no surprise at the question.
"Ay," the eldest replied, "we know that story. It may well be true, for the prince certainly bears no family resemblance to the king. But what of it? Better a stolen stranger ruled the land than a true son of King Haggard."
"But if the prince was stolen from Hagsgate" Molly cried, "then he is the man who will make the curse on this castle come true!" And she repeated the rhyme that the man Drinn had recited in the inn at Hagsgate.
"Yet none but one of Hagsgate town May bring the castle swirling down."
But the old men shook their heads, grinning with teeth as rusty as their casques and corselets. "Not Prince Lir," the third man said. "The prince may slay a thousand dragons, but he will level no castles, overthrow no kings. It is not in his nature. He is a dutiful son who seeks—alas—only to be worthy of the man he calls his father. Not Prince Lir. The rhyme must speak of some other."
"And even if Prince Lir were the one," the second man added, "even if the curse had marked
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