The Power and the Glory post #3

In my travels today I observed a man who was missing all of his teeth but two yellow upper canines, he was a half-life obviously in need of money. He had been approached by the whisky priest who asked him if he was able to get a boat in order to cross the river to get to Carmen. He told the priest that there is no way to get across but to swim. However as the priest was leaving he seemed thoughtful for a moment, then started calling after the priest to wait up for him. It must have been very important to him because when the priest did not stop or turn around he jumped in and chased after him. The half-life claims that he about to head to Carmen for business and that it is better to travel in company, however when he said it I sensed a hint of deception in his voice. Judging by his words and actions I think he knows more than he is expressing to the priest, this extra knowledge is hinted at when he is calling the pries "senor" the priest asks him why he calls him that and he says that he is able to tell he is a man of education. I can't be positive but I think the priest also caught on to the fact that this man may know more than he should, he started eyeing the half-life rather suspiciously. Then to build the suspicion the half-life says accusingly "You don't trust me. Just because I am a man who likes to do a good turn to strangers, because I try to be a Christian, you don't trust me." Everybody knows that when one starts getting defensive for no reason he is hiding something, the priest didn't say anything, let alone anything that would trigger that reaction that severe. The second mistake in saying that is he states that he was only going along to help a stranger, to be a good Christian whereas earlier he said that he wanted to go to Carmen on business, when stories don't line up it is an obvious sign that neither of the alibis are true. To top off the suspicion the priest put him on the mule and sent it in the direction of Carmen  while he went  a different way, when he did this the half-life was furious he realizes he lost seven hundred pesos.