Dead Man’s Ransom
Ellis Peters
The Ninth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
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Contents
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CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
First published 1984 by Macmillan London Limited
ISBN 0 7540 1276 X
Copyright © Ellis Peters 1984 All rights reserved
The right of Ellis Peters to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
CHAPTER ONE
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On that day, which was the seventh of February of theyear of Our Lord 1141, they had offered special prayers at every office, notfor the victory of one party or the defeat of another in the battlefields of thenorth, but for better counsel, for reconciliation, for the sparing ofblood-letting and the respect of life between men of the same country—alldesirable consummations, as Brother Cadfael sighed to himself even as heprayed, but very unlikely to be answered in this torn and fragmented land withany but a very dusty answer. Even God needs some consideration and support fromhis material to make reasoning and benign creatures of men.