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'I've come for the salt'

'Then why didn't you knock?'

'I only just got here'

Alice went to an alcove John watched her spoon salt into a small pot and hand it to the woman who left hurriedly He waited for Alice to return to the table

'Do you think she was listening?'

'I don't know,' Alice shook her head 'I've suspected Sarah for so to the butcher when he delivers theher money and I don't think it's for amorous favours'

'When you say butcher, do youman The one alks around the streets in a bailiffs uniforo up to the abbot's chambers as if he reports to hi on people'

Alice stared at the table for a fewon me Ralf says there's a lot of tension in the monastery Bradford has been slow to hand out the benefices that beca thewith one another to please his he likes to hear They're talking a lot about the al it a Trojan horse And there's talk about me Some of the monks say I'm a witch'

She went to a box and returned with soht harm our cause if they were discovered They are very precious toof the Holy Mother I have saved lives and healed the sick'

Tears appeared in her eyes

'Pray, take care of them'

She placed the books in front of Harald

'They are a repository of ancient knowledge and it would be a sin to destroy thenise their true h theSons of the zodiac and syions Others ritten in a language he recognised as belonging to the heretical Cathars who had been put doith hter two centuries earlier He racked his brain for a place to hide them