The ConfessionalDom Clem was reflecting on this period of his life, on his awakening to the true value of the confessional, as he sat in the confessional box in the aisle of Washington Cathedral.
Three days had passed since Mike Manning’s death. Tim had instructed an attaché to delve into Art Nixdorf’s background, but nothing had come up that was particularly noteworthy – although the attaché did remark that it was difficult to find something noteworthy if he did not know what he was looking for.
Clem had been to see Mary Nixdorf. He wanted her to know what had happened on the night Art died, his last words and the effect on Manning when he repeated them. Mary seemed surprisingly uninterested. She had smiled a great deal, had not reacted at all when Clem said that Art had “…seemed to be
