Chapter 37 Chapter 35 Santa Marta Dormitory

Dante and Paula climb into Troy's car parked outside.Troy will take them to the UACV morgue to identify the murder weapons used in the three cases.Anthony just opened the car door and was about to sit in, when he suddenly heard someone calling him at the door of the building. "Father Fowler!" Anthony turned around, and it turned out that Cardinal Gasser was waving to him.Anthony walked over. "My lord, I hope you are feeling better now." Gase tried to make himself laugh. "We have no choice, everything depends on the Lord's arrangement. Dear Fowler, I want to take this opportunity to personally thank you for your timely rescue."

"My lord, you were already fine when we arrived." "Who knows? Who knows if that pervert will come back for me? Thank you very much. I personally think the District Senate will see that you are a good soldier." "You are very welcome, my lord." "My boy, you never know when you're going to need help, or when some misfortune is going to befall you. People say you should keep your money in the bank." Anthony looked at the cardinal, wondering what he really thought. "Of course, my son," Gasser continued, "the gratitude of the Regional Senate can go a step further. We can recall you to the Vatican. Sellin seems to have lost his luster. Maybe someone who can completely cover up this scandal Someone will take his place. Someone who sees it all and walks away."

Anthony began to see what he meant. "My lord, are you telling me that some files are lost?" Gase smiled, shrugged, and made a very naughty and extremely inconsistent gesture to suppress the topic just now.He had achieved his goal, or so he thought. "Just right, boy, just right. 'A dead man's revenge never hurts.'" Anthony also smiled, a little maliciously. "Oh, that's what Blake said. I never thought I'd hear a cardinal quoting from "Hell's Words!" Gase turned away, his voice firmer, and he didn't care what Anthony said.

"God's ways are amazing." "God's way is the exact opposite of the devil's, my lord. I've known it since I was a little boy. It's all going to fail." "A surgeon's scalpel is sometimes contaminated with blood. You are a very sharp scalpel, my boy. Let me put it this way, you seem more interested in this case than anyone else." "I'm just a humble priest," Anthony said, trying to look silly. "I doubt it. But it speaks to your ability in a circular way." "During these cycles, did they address my problems with conforming to authority, my lord?"

"Speaking of it. But I have no doubt that when the time comes, you'll know what you're supposed to do. You don't spread the wisdom of the church to the public media, my boy." Anthony responded with silence and grimness.Gase patted him on the shoulder like a parent.Antony was wearing inappropriate civilian clothes at this time, not clerical clothes.Then Gase almost whispered in his ear: "Sometimes that's how it is. Who doesn't have a secret or two? Maybe your name appears on some piece of paper, say, in the records of the Holy See." Gasser didn't say anything else, turned and walked into St. Matthew's Building.Anthony returned to the car, and everyone was waiting for him.Troy started the car.

"Are you all right, Father? You don't look very happy," Paula asked. "I'm very good." Paula watched him carefully, and it was a way of lying: Anthony's face was as white as flour.He looked 10 years older all of a sudden. "What did Cardinal Gasser tell you?" Anthony turned his head to Paula, and a melancholy smile appeared on his face, which quickly infected the atmosphere in the car. "He didn't say anything. Just asked me to bring a goodie to our friend."