“Is it the, uh, the—” “Fellow who claims he’s the earl. Some ridiculous name.” “Perkin Warbeck.” “What? No, nothing like that.” “No—I mean the claimant—Perkin Warbeck was a pretender to the throne,” Odo explained earnestly, falling into step by him. “He declared himself to be one of the Princes in the Tower, you know, and attempted to take the throne from Henry the Seventh.” “Good for him. Did it work?” “Well—er—no? He was captured, and Henry hanged him.” “Even better,” Rufus said, and kept walking.
