Chapter 17:
“Thank you for coming, but I’m afraid it will be for nothing. The sisters have not been responding to treatment. Many of them have died. Those who are still sick will not last long. Once the sick pass on, it might be better to lock the doors to this convent and never return.” She didn’t move from the front gate, instead blocking their way into the courtyard.
Thaddeus motioned with his right hand. “We have come all this way. May we at least look at the stricken, to look for signs of…?”
Geovanni finished Thaddeus’s sentence, “Witchcraft.”
The mother superior motioned for them to follow her to the long low building with shuttered windows. The cries of the sick grew louder as they walked to the doorway. The gray sky did little to lighten the mood of the depressing scene.
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