Chapter 21
NELLIE HAD TO WAIT around until it got dark before she could carry out the next part of the plan: to rescue the boy—who she was reasonably sure was Prince Bruno—from the crypts.
Meanwhile, she helped the others pack up their supplies, ready to be carried to the Guentherite order’s ship.
During the day, the children, and especially Koby, had kept an eye on whether anyone visited the ship, and had concluded that the monks sometimes came to pick up things or deliver goods that had to go back to the monastery, like a chest full of books, but that no one was permanently at the ship.
After dark, Floris would come with his rowboat and they would take the supplies across the harbour and heave them on board the ship. They would hide the bags and barrels underneath a sailcloth the wom
