Killing Orders

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Author: Sara Paretsky
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stole to support it. Which might be true of any of you as well.”
    Rosa as a secret Torquemada appealed to me but there wasn’t any real evidence of it. It was hard to imagine her feeling positive enough about anyone or anything to love it, let alone steal for it.
    “As the procurator, Father Pelly, perhaps you know whether the shares were ever authenticated. If this wasn’t done when you got them, it’s possible they came to you as forgeries.”
    Pelly shook his head. “It never occurred to us. I don’t know if we’re too unworldly to handle assets, but it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing anyone does.”
    “Probably not,” I agreed. I asked him and Jablonski some more questions, but neither was very helpful. Pelly still seemed miffed with me over the Church and politics. Since I’d compounded my sin by not being a Catholic girl, his answers were fairly frosty. Even Jablonski commented on it.
    “Why are you on such a high horse with Miss Warshawski, Gus? So she’s not a Catholic. Neither is eighty-five percent of the world’s population. That should make us more charitable, not less.”
    Pelly turned his cold stare on him, and Carroll remarked, “Let’s save group criticism for chapter, Stephen.”
    Pelly said, “I’m sorry if I seem rude, Miss Warshawski. But this business is very worrying, especially because I was the procurator for eight years. And I’m afraid my experiences in Central America make me sensitive to criticisms about the Church and politics.”
    I blinked a few times. “Sensitive how?”
    Carroll intervened again. “Two of our priests were shot in El Salvador last spring; the government suspected they were harboring rebels.”
    I didn’t say anything. Whether the Church was working for the poor, as in El Salvador, or supporting the government, as in Spain, it was still, in my book, up to its neck in politics. But it didn’t seem polite to pursue the argument.
    Jablonski thought otherwise. “Rubbish, Gus, and you know it. You’re only upset because you and the government don’t see eye to eye. But if your friends have their way, you know very well that the Friary of San Tomás will have some very powerful allies.” He turned to me. “That’s the trouble with people like you and Gus, Miss Warshawski—when the Church is on your side, whether it’s fighting racism or poverty, it’s just being sensitive, not political. When it goes against your position, then it’s political and up to no good.”
    Carroll said, “I think we’re all getting a long way from Miss Warshawski’s real business in coming out here. Stephen, I know we Dominicans are supposed to be preachers, but it violates some rules of hospitality to preach at a guest over lunch, even so meager a lunch as this.”
    He stood up and the rest of us got up also. As we walked from the refectory, Jablonski said, “No hard feelings, Miss Warshawski. I like a good fighter. Sorry if I offended you in your role as a guest.”
    To my surprise I found myself smiling at him. “No hard feelings, Father. I’m afraid I got a little carried away myself.”
    He shook hands with me briskly and walked down the hail in the opposite direction from Carroll, who said, “Good. I’m glad you and Stephen found some common ground. He’s a good man, just a little aggressive sometimes.”
    Pelly frowned. “Aggressive! He’s completely without—” He suddenly remembered to save group criticism for chapter and broke off. “Sorry, Prior. Maybe I should go back to San Tomás—that’s where my mind seems to be these days.”

Chapter 4 - Return Engagement
    IT WAS CLOSE to three when I threaded my way to my office in the South Loop. It’s in the Pulteney Building, which is of the right vintage to be a national historic landmark, I sometimes think it might even qualify if it ever acquired a management interested in looking after it. Buildings around there don’t fare well. They’re too close to the city lockup, the slums, the peepshows
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