It was he who’d had Joan followed. It was he who’d had the church and every churchman inside thoroughly searched until they’d found the bracelet in the offertory. They didn’t know what it meant at first. But after the failed trap, Despenser had taken the bracelet out to show Sir Henry when Sir Adam Gordon happened to walk by. Without realizing the import, he’d caught sight of the lion emblem with the spiderweb and mentioned his nephew had one just like it on his arm, but without the roses. Joan’s fate had been sealed.
