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Chapter 18 - Another Task Part 1

At morning Captain, Anne, and all crew doing their own activities. Captain and Anne helped the workers to pick up the crop at farm and feeding the animal. After that Captain taught Anne how to learn archery at field near the farm. One of workers he name is Salvatore came to Captain and gave the envelope then left to go back to work. Captain opened the envelope and start read a letter. Captain said to Anne that he been asked to go to Winfred Wellington's house. The address been wrote at that letter. The address is near Captain's house and River Thames. "Anne let's go to Mr. Winfred's house now" said Captain. "Ok Captain" said Anne. Before left the house, Captain told other worker at farm "Ace, I and Anne will go visiting Mr. Winfred's house. If others want to meet with me, ask them to wait for my return. But if guests come, accompany them at main room to wait. Just don't tell them I go where" said Captain. "Yes Captain" said Ace. Captain and Anne left the house.

The Winfred's house looks like an old house but the foundation still standing strongly. There two guards standing in front of Winfred's house. "Good afternoon Sir. What is the business that you have to come here?" asked one of the guards. "My name is Jack Pearl. This is Anne who accompanied me. I had appointment with Mr. Winfred" said Captain. "Alright Mr. Jack. Wait here I ask Mr. Winfred first" said the guard. "Sure" said Captain. One of the guards got in to the main door while Captain and Anne wait in front of the house with other guard. Not for long, the guard came back from the main door then permit Captain and Anne to go inside the house. "This way Mr. Jack and Miss Anne" said the guard leading Captain and Anne to one of the room. The guard opened the door and inside the room there is a man about 20's standing near the desk.

After Captain and Anne got inside, the guard closed the door and goes back to his post again. "Good afternoon Captain Jack. My name is Winfred Wellington. I heard from my head steward that Captain Jack already back to your house so I asked my attendant to send my letter to you Captain Jack" said Mr. Winfred to explain. "Good afternoon Mr. Winfred. Is there a task that need my help?" asked Captain. "Yes there is Captain Jack. I got wooden box that been engraved with family crest. That wooden box I received from my father when I become the head of the house. My father now retired and take a vacation with my mother. I think that wooden box is just a box from ancestor to prove as the head. But when I accidentally got bump the box with my hand and that box got fallen to the ground. I checked the condition of the box. It turned out that inside the box there was a layer of wood covering the bottom of the box. The wooden layer had come off and I could see there was a letter in the box" said Mr. Winfred. 

Mr. Winfred continued to explain "that letter is from one of my ancestor, his name is Sawney Wellington. He is not the head of the family because he is the second son from three siblings. I found that from my ancestor's record. The head always write their families history year to year and of course I had to write about our families too. Even not as the head of family, as father's duty all their children got money from their father before start to find a job. So the children can have provisions for work. At the letter said my ancestor Sawney he find job outside our business. He put this letter in the box when he asked the box from his brother for the reason of observing the family crest closely. The wooden box just a symbol so his brother gave for him to observe" said Mr. Winfred. Mr. Winfred then started to explain again "at his letter said that after his money enough to buy three stones that the size about index finger for his hobby. The three stones are diamond, ruby, and bloodstone from Indians who came to Westminster for the sale of precious stones. The diamond he took for him while the ruby and bloodstone, he put in a copper box that been buried inside soil. Before he buried the copper box, he marked the place. He put the red stones on the copper box. The buried place really at the safe place" said Mr. Winfred finished his explanation to Captain and Anne. 

"Where is the stones been buried?" asked Captain. "At the Westminster Abbey near tomb of Queen Anne Neville at outside the wall" said Mr. Winfred with a worried face. "Sure is a safe place. We just a common people can't enter that place. The place been guarded by troops of the Kingdom so even we can enter that need an acceptable reason" said Captain while thinking a way. "I think we can suggest to plant flowers at the wall near the tomb of the Queen Anne Neville. We can say that the flowers for the Queen. We can bring some big bucket with good soil for plants at the beginning. After we dig there, will be unnecessary stones that we had to throw out. So the unnecessary stones we will put at the empty buckets and one of the bucket, we will put the precious stones at the middle that be surrounding with unnecessary stones and the soil" said Anne. "Oh that's good idea. My ancestor Sawney had work as guard at Westminster Abbey so maybe at night he had a chance to buried the stones and after buried the stones, he decide to be a sailor at Westminster as he wrote at his letter. My ancestor took any different occupation to obtain different experience. He buried that stones as spare item. Alright back to our plan. First I will ask permission with my friend as a Pastor at there to plant the flowers. If our plan been agreed by my friend, we will do that work as soon as possible and I will join you guys to plant the flowers. I want to see with my own eyes that the stones still there" said Mr. Winfred smiling.