CHAPTER NINEAs Lucilla crouched inside the stuffy darkness of the Confessional, she could hear raised voices arguing in French with the Priest. It was the two men who had abducted her in the motor car.
The Priest was speaking quietly and so she could not follow everything he said, but she thought that he was telling them to leave, if they could not respect the sanctity of God’s Holy Church.
After a few minutes, she heard the men swearing loudly and then the door of the Church clanged shut and she knew that they must have gone.
“Merci, Monseigneur!” she exclaimed, stepping out of the Confessional. “You saved me, I am so grateful!”
“De rien!” the Priest shrugged his thin shoulders. “I could tell that you were in trouble, as soon as you came into the Church. Then those men came and I real
