By Margaret Frazer
AN APOSTATE'S SINS...
because the nuns of St. Frideswide's priory organize for the welcome finish of Lent, their peaceable expectancies are overset by way of the surprising go back of long-vanished Sister Cecely. 9 years in the past she fled from the nunnery with a guy. Now her lover is useless and he or she has come again, bringing her illegitimate son with her.
She claims she is penitent, that she desires merely to redeem her sin and discover a shelter for her baby. by means of the legislations of the Church, neither she nor the kid could be became away, yet their presence starts off to stir doubts and questions within the hearts of a few of the nuns approximately their very own faithfulness to the enclosed existence they dwell. in spite of the fact that, those doubts turn into the rent of the issues Dame Frevisse needs to confront whilst her worldly issues stick to Sister Cecely and her son into the nunnery, pursuing her out of the lifestyles she claims to have left behind.
Contrite Sister Cecely could be -- in spite of the fact that a lot Frevisse may perhaps doubt it -- yet fair she isn't really, and because the apostate nun's lies start to overtake her, risks of a couple of sort turn into an undesirable a part of lifestyles within the priory.
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Soon afterward came an episode in Bastogne, showing again what kind of battle this was going to be. They carted off not merely the staff and the supplies, but all the wounded men. IV Monuments resumed work on interrogation; it was the way they could be most useful, setting free the military men for more urgent duties. Lanny’s interest was the keener because his own life was at stake. Many whom he didn’t know would know him, for he had been a conspicuous figure wherever he went in Naziland, the American whom the Führer trusted.
They talked fast, and it was evident that they knew their business down to the last detail; they had spent two years learning it and half a year acting what they had learned. With quiet competence they laid out the procedure. Another commando would be a second or two behind, prepared to help. All that presupposed darkness, of which there was an unlimited quantity outside. ” asked Lanny. ” exclaimed the lieutenant, pleased but uncertain. “Most of the officers will be in the farmhouse, eating supper and resting.
He had destroyed all his papers and could give a false name and might get by with it. But he had traveled all over Germany, ever since boyhood, and had known literally thousands of Germans, especially of the officer class and among the Nazis of the ruling group. Wasn’t it certain that they would apply all the fancy kinds of scientific torture they had devised to make him reveal the names of his accomplices? So why not die quickly and take a few highly trained enemy troops along with him? If only he had had one of those tiny cyanide capsules with which the OSS provided its agents when going into enemy territory!