Chapter 65
BY WEDNESDAY EVENING no plan, whether from Saint Hubert or any other source, had been revealed to save the shop. Adding to Ryman’s troubles was the need to prepare a special sermon for Saturday’s hunt when Montfair would be travelling to Maryland for a joint meet with Tiber Creek Hounds. The schedule called for Article Eight from “The Foxhunter’s Faith” to be the topic for that day:
“Whosoever kills or takes a fox by other means save by hunting is an abomination; may his dwelling become desolate and his possessions a desert; may his mind be filled with bitterness and his body with pain.”
Ryman had never violated this Article. Yet he felt the weight of these words as acutely as if they applied directly to him. A desolate dwelling, loss of possessions, and a mind filled with bi
