Title:Killing Orders (V.I. Warshawski Novel)
Author(s): Sara Paretsky
Publisher(s): Dell
Pages: 352
Year: 1993
Format: EPUB
Language: English
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I spent the rest of the day finishing up a few outstanding problems-serving a subpoena to a bank vice-president hiding unconvincingly in Rosemont, and showing a small jewelry store how to install a security system.
And I kept wondering who was backing off first Rosa and then the FBI. It wouldn’t help to park in front of Rosa ’s and watch her. What I really needed was a tap on her phone. And that was beyond my resources.
I tried thinking about it from the other end. Who had I talked to? That was easy: the prior, the procurator, and the student master. I’d also told Ferrant and Agnes what I was doing. None of these five seemed a likely candidate for threatening either me or the FBI.
Of course, Jablonski could be that type of antiabortion fanatic who thinks it’s a worse sin to have an abortion than to kill someone who promotes freedom of choice, but he hadn’t struck me as particularly crazy. Despite Pelly’s protests, the Catholic Church does carry a lot of clout in Chicago. But even if it could pressure the FBI out of the investigation, why would it want to? Anyway, a priory in Melrose Park was on the fringes of the Church power structure. And why would they steal their own stock certificates? Even assuming they were in touch with forgers the whole idea was too far out. I went back to my original theory-my phone call had come from a crank, and the FBI was backing out because it was understaffed and overworked.
Nothing happened to make me change my mind during the next several days. I wondered vaguely how Uncle Stefan was doing. If it weren’t for the fact that there really had been a forgery, I would have put the whole thing out of my mind.
On Wednesday I had to go to Elgin to testify in a case being tried in the state appeals court there. I stopped in Melrose Park on my way back to town, partly to see Carroll, partly to see if a visit to the priory might tickle my threatening caller back to life. If it didn’t, it would prove nothing. But if I heard from him again, it might show he was watching the priory.
It was four-thirty when I reached St. Albert ’s, and the friars were filing into the chapel for vespers and evening mass. Father Carroll came out of his office as I stood hesitating and gave me a welcoming smile, inviting me to join them for evening prayer.
I followed him into the Chapel. Two rows of raised stalls faced each other in the middle of the room. I went with him to the back row on the left side. The seats were divided by arms raised between them. I sat down and slid back in the seat. Father Carroll gave me a service book and quietly pointed out the lessons and prayers they would be using, then knelt to pray.
In the winter twilight, I felt as though I had slipped back five or six centuries in time. The brothers in their white robes, the candlelight flickering on the simple wooden altar to my left, the few people coming in from the outside to worship in the public space divided from the main chapel by a carved wooden screen-all evoked the medieval Church. I was the discordant note in my black wool suit, my high heels, my makeup.
Father Carroll led the service, singing in a clear, well-trained voice. The whole service was sung antiphonally between the two banks of stalls. It’s true, as Rosa said, that I’m no Christian, but I found the service satisfying.
Afterward, Carroll invited me back to his office for tea. Almost all tea tastes like stewed alfalfa to me, but I politely drank a cup of the pale green brew and asked him if he’d heard anything more from the FBI.
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