“It was given to me by General Cromwell’s direction, and written almost in my own presence, I might say, or at least a few moments after I had been speaking with him.”
“You went from Durham to Oxford?”
“Yes.”
“And have come from Oxford here?”
“Yes.”
“Did you travel through Banbury?”
“We stopped the night at Banbury; at ‘The Banbury Arms’.”
“Stopping there by the direction of General Cromwell himself,” put in the girl, much to the surprise of William Armstrong. The officer looked up at her with interest.
“When did the General give you such instructions?”
“Several days ago, at Northampton.”