Doctor Guerrero chose that moment to enter the room, sternly informing us that his patient had been bothered enough for the morning and that we must let him rest and return later. The bishop and I said our farewells on the steps of the hospital and I returned to headquarters to further study the notes on the missing boys. They had all gone missing shortly after choir practices or after mass, each boy having completed his duties at the church, but never arriving home. Father Rodrigo had been interviewed by Merced on each occasion and had confirmed that all the boys had been in church, had left and he had never seen them again. They were all clean living, drug free, fine upstanding catholic boys and, strangely perhaps, they all shared one common ambition. All six boys wanted to become priest
