The Nightingale Gallery (2014)
“Sir John was correct. He had pronounced on Lady Isabella and Sir Richard’s guilt or innocence without any reference to the coroner. There might have been further questions Cranston would have liked to put. He wished he had taken Sir John aside, made his peace and offered some refreshment, some claret in one of the Cheapside taverns. After all there were other strands to the case, loose ends which needed to be tied up. Who was the red-haired whore who had lured Vechey to his death? Had it been L...ady Isabella? But many whores wore red wigs.
After he had stabled Philomel, Athelstan remembered the verses from Scripture and studied the great leather-bound Bible that he kept chained in his house’s one and only cupboard. Genesis 3, Verse 1: ‘The serpent was the most subtle of all wild beasts in that garden God had made.’ Athelstan translated as he read aloud: ‘Did God really say you were not to eat any of this tree in the garden?’ And the other text, the Book of the Apocalypse 6, Verse 8: ‘I heard the voice,’ Athelstan murmured, ‘of the fourth animal shout “Come!”MoreLess
After he had stabled Philomel, Athelstan remembered the verses from Scripture and studied the great leather-bound Bible that he kept chained in his house’s one and only cupboard. Genesis 3, Verse 1: ‘The serpent was the most subtle of all wild beasts in that garden God had made.’ Athelstan translated as he read aloud: ‘Did God really say you were not to eat any of this tree in the garden?’ And the other text, the Book of the Apocalypse 6, Verse 8: ‘I heard the voice,’ Athelstan murmured, ‘of the fourth animal shout “Come!”MoreLess
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