“Then anyone could have seen him and followed him, and planned to waylay him?”
“Theoretically, yes, but it's not like he would announce his next trip to town in advance.”
“You're right, of course,” Drake conceded the point. Thinking aloud, she said, “We need to try and work out when and how Brother Bernárd was taken.”
“I feel awful, Sergeant Drake,” the Prior admitted, his expression woeful. “At some point, the newest member of our community left the priory on some innocent premise and was abducted, and probably murdered, and I never even noticed that his place had been taken by an impostor, a doppelganger. What kind of a leader does that make me?”
“A human one,” Drake insisted. “Listen, Brother Gerontius. I've been thinking about this and the reason for them choosing a monk to provide
