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The
caller
laughed
coarsely
.
"
A
woman
of
spirit
.
I
am
aroused
.
Perhaps
before
this
night
is
over
,
I
will
find
you
.
And
when
I
do
…
"
The
words
hung
like
a
blade
.
Then
he
was
gone
.
Cardinal
Mortati
was
sweating
now
in
his
black
robe
.
Not
only
was
the
Sistine
Chapel
starting
to
feel
like
a
sauna
,
but
conclave
was
scheduled
to
begin
in
twenty
minutes
,
and
there
was
still
no
word
on
the
four
missing
cardinals
.
In
their
absence
,
the
initial
whispers
of
confusion
among
the
other
cardinals
had
turned
to
outspoken
anxiety
.
Mortati
could
not
imagine
where
the
truant
men
could
be
.
With
the
camerlegno
perhaps
?
He
knew
the
camerlegno
had
held
the
traditional
private
tea
for
the
four
preferiti
earlier
that
afternoon
,
but
that
had
been
hours
ago
.
Were
they
ill
?
Something
they
ate
?
Mortati
doubted
it
.
Even
on
the
verge
of
death
the
preferiti
would
be
here
.
It
was
once
in
a
lifetime
,
usually
never
,
that
a
cardinal
had
the
chance
to
be
elected
Supreme
Pontiff
,
and
by
Vatican
Law
the
cardinal
had
to
be
inside
the
Sistine
Chapel
when
the
vote
took
place
.
Otherwise
,
he
was
ineligible
.
Although
there
were
four
preferiti
,
few
cardinals
had
any
doubt
who
the
next
Pope
would
be
.
The
past
fifteen
days
had
seen
a
blizzard
of
faxes
and
phone
calls
discussing
potential
candidates
.
As
was
the
custom
,
four
names
had
been
chosen
as
preferiti
,
each
of
them
fulfilling
the
unspoken
requisites
for
becoming
Pope
:
Multilingual
in
Italian
,
Spanish
,
and
English
.
No
skeletons
in
his
closet
.
Between
sixty
-
five
and
eighty
years
old
.
As
usual
,
one
of
the
preferiti
had
risen
above
the
others
as
the
man
the
college
proposed
to
elect
.
Tonight
that
man
was
Cardinal
Aldo
Baggia
from
Milan
.
Baggia
’
s
untainted
record
of
service
,
combined
with
unparalleled
language
skills
and
the
ability
to
communicate
the
essence
of
spirituality
,
had
made
him
the
clear
favorite
.
