Chapter FourThekla was thrilled with what they had brought back with them.
“You have been very clever!” she exclaimed when she saw her clothes.
When Maniu had gone to the kitchen and they were alone, Drogo showed her the jewellery that he had collected from the safe.
The expression on her face was very touching.
He knew that she was delighted, not because the jewels were valuable but because they had belonged to her mother.
“I could not have borne the revolutionaries – having these,” she whispered.
Drogo bit back the words that she might have to sell them and instead he busied himself counting the money from the safe.
There was quite a considerable amount not in the Kozanian currency and he knew he would have to conceal it very carefully to prevent it being stolen from him.
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