““Captain O'Rourke,” the man announced himself, and Darragh explained that he was concerned for Gervaise Aspillon.
“Yeah, I know the case, Father,” said O'Rourke. He had a voice like James Cagney.
“Gervaise made a sincere confession to me. I'm concerned that he might not be well treated in the . . . the compound.”
“Well, the guy was AWOL three weeks. Sounds like desertion to me. Only stood out where he was hiding because he was a colored.”
“I wondered would you visit him, Captain?” Darragh used the military title because he had a sense Father O'Rourke was flattered by it.
“Sure. I've already been around there. Said a decade of the rosary with him.”
“And was he well?”
He heard a sigh from Father O'Rourke. What business was it of this Australian curate?
“You see,” said Darragh, “I was at the capture with him.”
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