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" The Catacomb of St Faustus
" It is a well-furnished cave. To your
"right, behind a pulpit, is Cardinal
"Musial; to your left is Dr Dee.
" The Cardinal exclaims, <Thank God
you've come! I've just now escaped from
Dee's bonds and now we have him! He was
using the monks and nuns to further his
lustful ambitions and when he found out
they were going to repent and confess
"to Abbot Costello, he killed them all.
&
" <He stole the Abbot's seal and sent
notes to each of his victims telling
them to meet him in the Library. Then
he lured me down here and drugged me
so he could murder the Abbot in the
church and everybody else in the
Library. Help me apprehend this fiend!>
" Dr Dee cries, <Wait!>
&
" Dee says to you, <The Cardinal has
described the plot most admirably ex-
cept for the minor point that it was
"he, not I, who murdered everyone. He
had received an order from Rome to keep
the Papal Bull of 303 under wraps and
"when the Abbot refused to comply, he
gassed him in the confessional. He had
to kill everyone who knew about the
Bull so he lured them into the Library
where he gave them 'Last Communion'.>
&
" Cardinal Musial squawks, <That's a
"lie, you fiend! You killed everyone by
giving them an 'antidote' to the plague
in my favorite chalice.>
" The Cardinal and the doctor say to
"you in unison, <Whoever you are, help
me!>
*
"Calhoon asks: Which motive is more believable, based upon the
information you have gathered in your homeric journey through the
"Abbey? And if both motives are equally ridiculous, what really
"happened? Since the murderer is chosen by the flip of a coin, so to
"speak, Calhoon seems to be saying that greed OR faith can make a man
"lose his reason, and, in this case at least, become a murderer. This
equation of blind faith and amoral greed is a common thread among all
of Calhoon's works and fits in quite well with his underlying belief
that <Everything we believe is wrong.>
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