YEAH! Thanks, Ian. I recall it was a great story, and I think what threw me at the time was the fact that Follett wrote it. I started the book with some trepidation that the story would be bungled, but if I remember correctly that lasted for twenty pages and I was stuck closer to that book than a mosquito on fly paper. The other stories I'd read by Follett were 20th century based, and it was a surprise to see what he did with the tale and the research that went into writing it.