CHAPTER
ONE
1951
After supper on Holy Thursday evening， Father McCabe
motioned Sean Cronin away from the black line of semi-
narians filing in silence out of the house chapel. \"Mistah
Cmnin，\" he snapped， \"go to my office.\"
Sean walked down the dimly lit corridor and waited
at the door of the disciplinarian s office， his heart beat-
ing rapidly. What would his father say if he were sent
home in disgrace? As far as he could remember， he
hadn t violated any rules， but in the atmosphere of sus-
picion and distrust that permeated Mundelein a sudden
and final decision to expel a student could be made ar-
bitrarily on the basis of very little evidence.
When the last of the seminarians finished reporting
minor infractions of the rules to Father McCabe--being
late for class; not turning out lights at 9:45; violating
the \"great silence\" between lights out and the end of
morning mass. McCabe shuffled out of his office， a tall
lean shaggy dog of a man， and， almost without looking
at Sean， beckoned him inside.
\"Your father called earlier this afternOOn，\" he said
abruptly. \"Your brother has been reported missing in
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