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William le Queux

The closed book; concerning the secret of the Borgias

Paperback (RareBooksClub.com May 21, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...and visit Crowland, as it is now spelled, tomorrow. I've heard that the ruins of the abbey are very fine. It will be an interesting outing, if nothing else." "Before we go we had better take a tracing of the unnamed plan," I suggested. "It may assist us, and yet it may, on the other hand, be a plan of an entirely different place. One thing, however, is certain--namely, that it had been drawn there with some distinct object, just as the plan marked 'Treyf.'" To this he agreed, and going downstairs I obtained the packet containing the book from the hotel manager's safe, and together we carefully traced the rough plan in question. It was merely an arrangement of lines and numerals, which told us absolutely nothing. Still, we both felt halfconvinced that it must somehow concern the Crowland treasure which was hidden from the king's men at the time the abbey was dissolved and destroyed. At seven-thirty, after an early dinner, we left by the London express for Peterborough, arriving back at the old-fashioned "Angel" just before eleven. In traveling I carried the precious Arnoldus myself, fearing to lose it; but at our hotel I again transferred it to the landlord's safe, with injunctions to the hotel keeper to be careful of it, as its value was considerable. Next morning was bright and sunny, and taking a carriage from the hotel we drove out to Crowland, a fen village distant some seven miles. Perhaps you may have visited it, an old-world straggling place clustering about the time-worn, blackened ruins of the ancient abbey, a venerable pile which even in its present gaunt decay displays mute evidence of a long-past glory. As we stood before its restored tower and great ruined, roofless aisles, where arches still remain that are t...
ISBN
1236387732 / 9781236387738
Pages
86
Weight
5.9 oz.
Dimensions
7.44 x 0.18 in.

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