The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon

Author:Sidney Sheldon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780062007858
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-07-29T08:33:25+00:00

Rubio, Tomás, and the two sisters avoided the large cities and took side roads, passing old stone villages with grazing sheep and goats, and shepherds listening to music and soccer games on their transistor radios. It was a colorful juxtaposition of the past and the present, but Lucia had other things on her mind.

She stayed close to Sister Teresa, waiting for the first opportunity to get the cross and leave. The two men were always at their side. Rubio Arzano was the more considerate of the two, a tall, pleasant-looking, cheerful man. A simple-minded peasant, Lucia decided. Tomás Sanjuro was slight and balding. He looks more like a shoe clerk than a terrorist It will be easy to outwit them both.

They walked across the plains north of Ávila by night, cooled by the winds blowing down from the Guadarrama mountains. There was a haunting emptiness about the plains by moonlight. They passed granjas of wheat, olive trees, grapevines, and maize, and they foraged for potatoes and lettuce, fruit from the trees, and eggs and chickens from the hen coops.

“The whole countryside of Spain is a huge market,” said Rubio Arzano.

Tomás Sanjuro grinned. “And it’s all for free.”

Sister Teresa was totally oblivious to her surroundings. Her only thought was to reach the convent at Mendavia. The cross was getting heavy, but she was determined not to let it out of her hands. Soon, she thought. We’ll be there soon. We’re fleeing from Gethsemane and our enemies to the new mansion He has prepared for us.

Lucia said, “What?”

Sister Teresa was unaware that she had spoken aloud.

“I—nothing,” she mumbled.

Lucia took a closer look at her. The older woman seemed distracted and vaguely disoriented, unaware of what was happening around her. She nodded toward the canvas package that Sister Teresa carried. “That must be heavy,” Lucia said sympathetically. “Wouldn’t you like me to carry it for a while?”

Sister Teresa clutched it to her body more tightly. “Jesus carried a heavier burden. I can carry this for Him. Does it not say in Luke: ‘If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me’? I’ll carry it,” she said stubbornly.

There was something odd in her tone.

“Are you all right, Sister?”

“Of course.”

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