Michael Malone - Weebly

Hamilton Academy would ever write a preface, though,
unfortunately, most of them probably would give
speeches, if only to their employees. Saar went to his
rooms, put on a Mahler recording, had a few more
drinks, and smoked a dozen cigarettes.
In the parish office, Father Fields was rummaging
through the rubble on his superior's desk, right on top of
which, Highwick had assured him, he would find "a little
outline of church finances," which the curate was to
"spiff up a bit" before they met with Ernest Ransom and
the rest of the vestry to explain that they needed the
roof money to repair the choir screen. Finally, beneath
birthday cards, old New Yorkers, and a rare
embroidered ecclesiastical stole that should have been
locked up with the other vestments, Fields found a
scrap of paper titled "Budget," in which annual expenses
were said to be "around $50,000,00," though clearly
the last comma had been a slip of a pen for a decimal.
As the curate stood to let one of the rector's cats back
in, he saw, with a rush of adrenaline, that Walter Saar
was in the garden looking around in some confusion.
Quickly, Jonathan pulled off his glasses, which he