The Unexpected Sales Reps by Virginia DeMarce

Author:Virginia DeMarce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“What’s the likelihood of finding someone inside the Collegium who would cooperate with a removal?” That was the up-timer again.

“Inside the Ingolstadt Collegium? Does it tell you anything that both Ferdinand II, the late unlamented Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, still distressingly alive, were both educated there?” Jurgen Lux was not a diplomatic man.

Paolo forgot that he was not supposed to speak until spoken to. “Who is the garrison commander? And do you want to tell him about any of this?”

“Georg von Dewitz, right now, but the general won’t waste him on a garrison command for long. He’d probably rather not know the details.” Lux turned around, moving restlessly. “I could let him know that there will be someone in town and that someone’s actions are directly authorized by the administrator.”

Since Paolo had spoken, Duke Ernst indicated that he should go ahead and outline his idea.

“Once you’re in the city, what? Go into the Collegium, spot the guy, and say, ‘Beam me up, Scotty’?” That was the up-timer. “The Jesuit Collegium in Ingolstadt is a fucking big building. It’s not as if you’ll be trying to flush someone out of a one-room cottage in the woods, somewhere.”

“Which is probably why the garrison hasn’t tried to dig Westerstetten out. Presuming that they know he is there.”

The discussion started to go around in circles.

Duke Ernst dismissed Paolo, who snaked his way through a spiderweb of back corridors and emerged into daylight from the provincial tax office – a place where a commercial agent might reasonably have business.

In the room, the inconclusive discussion continued for several minutes. Jacob Balde didn’t say anything more in the presence of Father Hell – who was, after all, the rector of the Collegium and his superior. After the meeting broke up, as proper junior members of the group, he and Böcler courteously allowed their superiors to precede them toward an inconspicuous side exit from the Schloss. The corridors in this part of the building were narrow; the procession was moving slowly.

Balde’s eyes drifted over the paintings along the corridor walls. He mentioned that had visited the university in Ingolstadt several times in connection with those of his duties that involved imparting instruction in the art of writing modern Latin poetry. While, generally speaking, the order had success in forming the minds and hearts of young men into zealous adherents of the One True Church, which was certainly a divine blessing...nulla salus extra ecclesiam.

He looked at the other wall and then at the wooden tiles that made up the low ceiling. Yes. Generally speaking. Generally speaking was not, however, the same thing as universally successful. When it came to adolescent males, there were almost always a few who were...resistant to spiritual formation. Sometimes to the point of rebelliousness. They often manifested this (at least, if they were sufficiently academic types to have made it as far as university study) by reading forbidden literature. Not limited to books on the Index librorum prohibitorum, which some

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