By Murder's bright Light

Athelstan called. ‘Perhaps it’s best if you didn’t!’
    ‘What do you mean, monk?’
    ‘I am a friar, Sir John, and poor old Watkin has been frightened enough.’
    ‘Ah, I suppose you are right.’ Cranston ’s voice sounded muffled behind the mask. He tugged at the horns but the mask was stuck.
    ‘Oh, bloody hell!’ Cranston groaned. ‘Brother, the sodding thing won’t come off!’
    Athelstan now tugged at the mask but it wouldn’t move. Shaking with laughter, he stepped back.
    ‘What are you bloody well laughing at?’
    ‘Sir John, you had best kneel down.’
    Cranston obeyed but, pull as he might, all Athelstan got was a stream of filthy curses from Cranston , who claimed his ears were being torn off.
    ‘There’s nothing for it,’ Athelstan concluded. ‘We’ll have to stop off at Basil the blacksmith’s and see what he can do!’
    So the friar gently took Sir John’s hand and led him out of the church. Even as his parishioners scattered, Athelstan knew he was entering the legends of Southwark as the friar who captured a demon and took it to a blacksmith to send it back to hell.

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