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…just before he was attacked taking into account a stimulant found
in his bloodstream.”
“Stimulant? What stimulant?”
“Ecstasy.”
“Sex stimulant? Unbelievable; father Thomas ecstasy …
no way,” Father Jerome insisted.
The RCMP officer looked around as if he didn’t hear
Father Jerome’s comment, then he added, “Father here we are
talking of the Medical Examiner.”
The administrator of the Kamloops Indian Residential
School stirred on his chair, an uncomfortable feeling floated in
the office, he didn’t know what he could add to the sergeant’s
words; then like an epiphany he brought to the proscenium the
news of the day, “you know we have two siblings missing, a boy
and a girl who we couldn’t count during our morning count.”
It was Sergeant Ryan’s turn to stir on his seat, “missing
two students Father?” he asked in disbelief.
Father Jerome reported what they knew at this time and
the officer after asking his constable to take notes he said that
he’d look into that as well, but would the two things be connected,
he wondered, though he didn’t share that thought with
the priest. Soon after the sergeant and his constable got up and
after assuring Father Jerome that they’d come back soon, they
were ready to leave. However Father Jerome asked just before
the two men got out of his door.
“I trust we’ll try to keep this away from the press as much
as we could?” he asked the officer Ryan who looked at the administrator
of the facility, knowing well the rumors that abounded in
the city of Kamloops about things taking place within the walls
of the building, and added his last words, “the press, the local
press is already all over this murder, Father, with all due respect…
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