The scene: Tower of London, 1876.
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'It is a long and solemn journey, shrouded in secrecy that seems to endure forever, through days and nights, along further rivers and yet more roadways, all merging, one into the other. Nobody speaks, or if they do it is but rarely. All are stony-faced, silent and dedicated to the enterprise of taking the arrow chest to its rightful destination.'