Priceless

Chapter One

London, England
1720

"Bronwyn, someone's going to see us."

"Just keep watch." Bronwyn Edana worked frantically at the keyhole. "I've almost got it."

Olivia wiped tears of fright from her cheeks and peered down the darkened hall of the Brimming Cup Inn. "We shouldn't be doing this. If the landlord should find us here—"

"Listen to that moaning." Through the locked door there came the sound of whimpering. Bronwyn whispered, "That person in there is sick or hurt somehow. Do you want to abandon a fellow human being in agony?"

"No. . . ." Olivia didn't sound too sure.

"Of course not."

"But Maman and Da placed us in the care of the landlord while they went into London, and the landlord said—"