The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore M Jewett

Author:Eleanore M Jewett [Jewett, Eleanore M]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Bethlehem Books
Published: 2000-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

10. In the Marshes of Avalon

HUGH WALKED SLOWLY back to the abbey buildings lost in thought. The design which the hermit had drawn so crudely was familiar enough to his eyes though not, as far as he knew, as a “clue” to anything. It had been used as decoration and background for many of the capital letters in the ancient Book of the Seynt Graal, both in the volume itself and in the loose pages he had been deciphering. That had been one rather easy way of proving that a questionable sheet belonged to the broken book. Small copies of that special cross were also in the four corners of the sheet with the map on it. He and Dickon had taken it for a mere conventional decoration. Could it have any other significance? And just what did the old minstrel mean by searching, each in his own way? Bleheris might be mad, was indeed unmistakably mad, but sometimes his utterances had not merely obvious meaning, but a hidden meaning as well. It occurred to the boy that his way of seeking for the Holy Grail, his very own way, was through the broken book and its missing pages. Bleheris did not know of the book at all, and Hugh felt instinctively that it was wise he did not, for the present at least. Dickon could not read and obviously had little interest in that line of approach anyway. Brother John? Hugh felt a bit uncomfortable whenever he stopt to realize that Brother John really ought to be in on their secret and possibly could help them more than anybody else. But he had no right to tell the good armarian until Dickon agreed to it, and what was more, he had an eager desire to wait until he had himself recovered and replaced all the missing pages that it was possible to recover from the chest underground. Brother John, and everybody in the monastery, for that matter, had been so good to him. It would be a wonderful thing if he, a boy whose whole family was living exiled and accursed, especially in the eyes of the Church, could restore to Glastonbury, by his own effort, the long lost pages of the greatest treasure book they owned!

When it came to recounting his Beckery visit to Dickon, he found it difficult to make any sense out of it, yet he himself felt that he had definitely gained something. He told about the design, how Bleheris had sketched the even cross with the curved ends that adorned the map and some of the pages in the chest, but Dickon only snorted in disgust.

“I’m about ready to stop,” said he. “I’ve thought about the whole thing till I’m turning circles, and just when I think we can really do something, Bleheris appears and talks gibberish, or you do. Let’s forget the whole thing for awhile.” He turned a cartwheel with precision and stood on his head, by way of clearing it, perhaps. When he stood upright again he was grinning.

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