The Sign

The SignFather Varnet stood to offer his hand, shrugged when it was refused, sat down again."I know why you're here, Mr. Kranach," he said. The words ran together, flat and fast, "Iknowwhyyou'rehere." Who used to talk like that? Kranach tried to remember. Father Donnelly, back there in St. Sebastian's. Years of blistering through the Latin of the Mass. Some of the kids said that Donnelly could give you an Our Father in two and a half seconds and you'd hear every word of it, t...