Minstrel in the Tower PP

It is the year 1195. Roger and Alice live alone with their mother in a tiny cottage. Their father, a knight, left to fight in the Crusades five years earlier and never returned. Sick, feverish, and perhaps dreaming, their mother sends Roger and Alice on a journey to find an uncle they did not know they had. They carry with them their mother's lute. ""Show him the eagle carved on the back,"" she tells her children. ""Ask him to come quickly. Quickly!""



But on their journey they are kidnapped by two ruffians and locked in an old tower. With determination, Roger and Alice devise a plan for escape. Alice squeezes through a small window high in the tower and must continue the journey alone. Somehow, she must find her uncle and persuade him to help, and she no longer has the lute to prove her story.

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