Chapter 28: The Love Chase

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌‌⁠John Gilpin never rode so fast through Edmonton as, on that memorable afternoon in March, Major Constantine Tarry pounded over the cobbles of Curtain High Street. His scarlet uniform was very bright against the huge iron-grey steed on whose broad back he nodded with hat pressed down as far as his fierce prickly eyebrows, with pigtail bobbing to the motion and with sword whose martial clangour reca