Chapter 3
THE MEN ON THE JETTY didn’t move to either help or deny the ship access to the mooring posts and, since they didn’t seem hostile, the women busied themselves with the practicalities of getting the ship to the jetty.
“There is no current here, so use the light ropes only,” Gisele said.
Koby went to do as Gisele asked.
Nellie pulled the individual cow leads to release the animals from the harness so that they could graze.
Gisele and Henrik had tied up the ship by the time the Verdonck estate party reached them.
Nellie recognised neither the man on the horse nor the two guards with him. The man wore a cloak with the coat of arms of the Verdonck estate. She guessed he was the master of the estate in the lord’s absence. Adalbert Verdonck had been at the palace when she left and
