An Adventure To Come

Her English is coming along nicely. They've been traveling for two weeks now, taking time to stop whole days in several places where there's a chance to rest and talk.

After he used his influence with the king to commission a small band of armed men to help him finally locate and return his lost monks to their monastery, Brother Andre made a determined and at last successful effort to find Jack's mother. He is bringing her now from Laya, where she had gone after the death of her husband, and he is teaching her English.

Cheoki had no other children after Jack, and when Gendun died from the misfired arrow she had little reason to stay on their farm, so she simply left it and went back to her birthplace.

People there welcomed her back, and she was content to take a place in her old mother's home and work for her keep. It was good to be back in her childhood village.

But then she heard about the priest who was looking for a woman who had written a letter about a baby that was left at the gate of a monastery. She asked around and looked for him herself.

He had a Buddhist monk translating for him, and so explained that her son Jack had asked many questions about her and his father. Would she come with him to the monastery, so Jack's enquiries could be answered?