Monday

Chapter 11 - November - A Reckoning

Junpier and Alex return to Paris to speak with the Abbe Breuil and arrange for the grotto to be properly secured.
They then return to London from Calais.
The baddies are on the same ferry. They are bickering quietly over what to do with the stolen bible.
Their argument becomes physical. In the process the bible falls to the deck. The paper lining of the cover is damaged, revealing a piece of parchment tucked in between the endpaper and the board.
It is a drawing of a young man, unmistakeably by an expert Flemish hand.
Callista snatches the drawing and tucks it into the newspaper she is carrying before the other baddy can get more than a brief look at it.
Juniper and Alex leave the ferry first and walk toward the train station.
As Callista and the other leave the ferry, Callista is jostled and the newspaper falls onto the dock. The drawing falls from the paper and a gust of wind picks it up. The drawing is tossed gently about in the air for a little while before being blown from Callista's view and dropped gently on the bonnet of a parked car in front of Alex. Alex picks it up curiously.
With a shock he realises what it might be and shows it to Juniper. Chilled by the ferry ride they stop for tea in the station cafe before taking the train. They discuss the find excitedly.
"I'm sure it's authentic but if only it had provenance.", said Alex.
"Not provenance perhaps, but certainly Providence", laughed Juniper.
The baddies catch the earlier train back to London in sullen silence.