Chapter Four“He has sold them!”
Charisa gasped the words and looked again as if she could not believe her eyes.
How was it possible that Gervais could have sold anything so precious and so completely unique to The Priory?
Abbot Mawdelyn had been christened after a fifteenth-century Saint who had performed a number of miracles during his lifetime.
But Charisa had always thought that the Abbot himself was also a Saint.
Connoisseurs frequently came to The Priory to admire the pictures and its other glorious treasures.
They believed that the cross and the candlesticks had been a present to Abbot Mawdelyn.
It was difficult to pinpoint exactly the year they had been made, but they were certainly of the right period.
There was no other Church or Chapel in the whole of England that possess
