“I’ve read it. Tripe! Journalist a friend of yours, is she?”
There was no point in arguing. Jake knew that for the detective, he’d murdered his fiancée, and a lightweight newspaper article wouldn’t make him change his stubborn mind.
As a priority, on his release, Jake went to speak with Father Anthony. Part of his motivation was to warn the priest against the lurking danger of the ghost; the other, more urgent part was a desire to learn how to open the eyes of the world to the truth, since he felt the clergyman would know.
Father Anthony was generous with his time and showed his visitor into his study. It contained a desk covered in books, papers trapped under paperweights with religious motifs, and an overwhelming bookcase crammed with aged volumes. The effect of the room on Jake was v
