Short story: The square church, by Nathaniel Herz-Edinger

Short story: The square church, by Nathaniel Herz-Edinger

One morning the stonemason, the carpenter, and the glazier each claimed to have received a letter from an anonymous benefactor commissioning a church on the parish land across the river. This land had been left fallow since the three tradesmen were boys. Although no one else was permitted to see or touch these letters, they were soon made good by three plump, heavy bags of silver, and half the town got to work on the project. It was not such a g…