City of the Absent
“Gabby told Jane over breakfast the next morning. She’d gone into detail about Ransom’s trouble with having been literally accused of the awful attack on Father Franklin Jurgen, who now lay in a coma, fighting a gangrenous infection in his private parts. Jane listened intently, allowing her daughter to go on as she described how Father O’Bannion and Kohler had done all in their power to lay it at Alastair’s doorstep, this heinous crime.
“How absolutely mad Nathan Kohler must be!” Jane said of the allegation.
“I know!”
“It’s just as I’ve warned Alastair time and again. Nathan’s hatred of Alastair is beyond reason.”
“It’s clearer every day,” agreed Gabby.
“Put nothing—nothing—past Kohler.”
“I’ll remember that. But, Mother, there was this sad, sad giant showed up at the lineup.”
“Giant?”
“With a hunchback, yes. Name’s Vander, and how he clung to his brother, when the brother was thrown into jail for coming at Alastair with a knife.”
“My God, and you in harm’s way at that place!
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