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Hotel Raphael
Largo Febo,
Thursday, 7 April 2005, 2.45 p.m.
âSaint Ambrogio Residence.â
âGood afternoon. Iâd like to speak with Cardinal Robayra,â said
the young journalist in her very worst Italian.
The voice on the other end of the phone was slightly flustered.
âMay I ask to whom Iâm speaking?â
It wasnât much â the speakerâs tone hardly changed; but it was
enough to send a signal to the journalist.
Andrea Otero had spent four years working at El Globo â four
years in which sheâd blazed a trail through third-rate press rooms,
interviewed C-list celebrities and written stories for the back page.
Sheâd been twenty-four years old when she joined El Globo, and
sheâd only got there because of her connections. She had started off
working for the culture pages, but the editor there had never taken
her seriously. She had moved on to the society pages, whose editor
had never trusted her. Now sheâd taken up residence in the international pages, whose editor didnât think she was up to the job. But
she was. It wasnât all about grades, or the courses youâd taken. There
was also common sense, intuition, the journalistâs nose for a story;
and if Andrea Otero had even a tenth of what she thought she had
in terms of these qualities, sheâd be a journalist worthy of a Pulitzer.
She didnât lack confidence in herself, in her five foot eight inches
of height, in her angelic features, her blonde hair or her blue eyes.
Behind these features was a woman of resolve and intelligence. So
when her colleague who was to cover the death of the Pope tripped
on the stairs of her apartment building â on the way out to the cab that was supposed to take her to the airport â and ended up with a broken leg, Andrea hadnât baulked at her bossâs proposal that she go instead. Sheâd caught the plane with only moments to spare, a
laptop her only luggage.
Happily the streets around her hotel in the Piazza Navona were
full of little stores selling the basic necessities. So Andrea Otero purchased several serviceable outfits and some underwear, along with a
mobile phone, all of which she naturally charged to the newspaper.
The last item was what she was using to call the Saint Ambrogio
Residence in order to set up an interview with papal candidate
Cardinal Robayra.
âThis is Andrea Otero, of El Globo. The cardinal promised me an
interview today, but heâs not answering his mobile phone. Would
you be so kind as to put me through to his room, please.â âSignorina Otero, Iâm sorry to say we cannot put you through to
his room because the cardinal hasnât arrived.â
âAnd when will he arrive?â
âHe isnât coming.â
âHeâs staying somewhere else?â
âI donât think so. I mean, I suppose he will.â
âAnd to whom am I speaking?â
âI have to go.â
The dialling tone on the other end of the line told her two things:
the conversation was over, and the person she had spoken with was
exceptionally nervous. Also, she had been lying â Andrea was sure
of that. She was too much of a liar herself not to recognise someone
in her own class.
There was no time to lose. It didnât
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