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Chapter Forty-One

Ever since Florrie told him what she told him, Hammond
had kept thinking excessively not knowing what to do as he
had sat alone with no companion, but extreme anger.
Whenever he went out and back, he would sit alone
thinking again feeling confused and angry.
As time passed by, Hammond drowned more in
quicksand of confusion. He needed to do something before
he drowned completely. Every time he tried to think, he
was as if he was trying to move in the sand and he drowned
more.
Did Jarvis really violate my honor? How could he
enter my house in my absence when there was no one there
but my wife and the women serving her with no men at all?
Florrie’s beauty would make any man fall in love with her,
did he fall in love with her? Is this why he was sad when I
told him that I was going to marry her, in Fitoma Palace?
What should I do now? How can I restore my honor? that
was what he was thinking.

The next day after Hammond returned from his trip, he
needed Melanie, so he started calling her without any reply.
He then went looking for her and did not find her in the
house.
He went to the princess. “Where is Melanie?”