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Chapter 2

           

           HehadreachedtheopenbackdoorofAllHallows.Steppingintotheporchhedoffedhishat,tookthecardfromhispocketandtuckeditagainbehindtheleatherheadband.Damnit.ImighthavetriedtoworkM’CoyforapasstoMullingar.

           Samenoticeonthedoor.SermonbytheveryreverendJohnConmeeS.J.onsaintPeterClaverS.J.andtheAfricanMission.PrayersfortheconversionofGladstonetheyhadtoowhenhewasalmostunconscious.Theprotestantsarethesame.ConvertDrWilliamJ.WalshD.D.tothetruereligion.SaveChina’smillions.WonderhowtheyexplainittotheheathenChinee.Preferanounceofopium.Celestials.Rankheresyforthem.Buddhatheirgodlyingonhissideinthemuseum.Takingiteasywithhandunderhischeek.Josssticksburning.NotlikeEcceHomo.Crownofthornsandcross.CleverideaSaintPatricktheshamrock.Chopsticks?Conmee:MartinCunninghamknowshim:distinguishedlooking.SorryIdidn’tworkhimaboutgettingMollyintothechoirinsteadofthatFatherFarleywholookedafoolbutwasn’t.They’retaughtthat.He’snotgoingoutinblueyspecswiththesweatrollingoffhimtobaptiseblacks,ishe?Theglasseswouldtaketheirfancy,flashing.Liketoseethemsittingroundinaringwithblublips,entranced,listening.Stilllife.Lapituplikemilk,Isuppose.

           Thecoldsmellofsacredstonecalledhim.Hetrodthewornsteps,pushedtheswingdoorandenteredsoftlybytherere.

           Somethinggoingon:somesodality.Pitysoempty.Nicediscreetplacetobenextsomegirl.Whoismyneighbour?Jammedbythehourtoslowmusic.Thatwomanatmidnightmass.

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