At first Ben thought that the only reason why the fat
~ld priest， Father Paloma， had suddenly come to be such a large
igure in his llfe that year when he was eighteen and in his final
ear at the academy was that his father was in eclipse， exiled to a
mall post in northern New Mexico nearly four hundred miles
tom El Paso and with quarters so primitive that he and his mother
ould not live with him， He had known the old priest for more
Ran half his llfe， and even if during those early years he had not
een the old man s friend， student， prot6g6， and chief altar boy， he
ad known him by legend--the stuttered brief chronicles of his
ower and greatness， wit， intellect， anger， and holiness which
very boy in the lower grades listened to in fear and wonder--and
e must certainly have seen him three or four times a week cele-
rating Mass， huge and magnificent in robes of crimson， black，
ale green， or gold and white， and watched daily from swing or
tde or huddle of friends his morning progress across the school
lrd from sacristy to rectory_ Tha n|cl nria~f hat] m，~，，~rl In I.k~
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