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6The following day, Bass and Macky met outside the church courtyard and together they went in through the large oak doors to the sanctuary. They proceeded down the center aisle. The man wearing a dark gray sport coat, sitting in the front pew, paging through a hymnal, they assumed was Reverend Farlee.
When he looked up and noticed Bass and Macky standing next to him, he carefully marked his place in the hymnal with a red felt bookmarker and stood up. After he introduced himself as Reverend Farlee, he said, “Why don’t you follow me to my office?”
He led the way through the door on the right of the pulpit to his office.
Reverend Farlee was a relatively young man for the position, Bass thought. He estimated that the reverent was probably in his mid-thirties.
Farlee had a small fa
