The Power and the Glory post #5

The mysterious whisky priest was in a safe town earlier he was staying with Mr. Lehr and his sister he gave a mass and a baptism in order to get to Las Casas to be safe. However when he is about to leave the mestizo  a filthy rotten liar trying to get money for handing the priest over to the police, approaches him and tells him that the gringo was dying and wanted to confess. Instead of going to Las Casas he goes into the hills with the mestizo against his better judgement, he even told the mestizo he doesn't trust him yet he still goes to the gringo. When he gets their the gringo says he doesn't want to confess which thoroughly confused the priest for a moment because the mestizo said he wanted prayer. Finally he put two and two together and he realized that this was a trap, yet he still refused a weapon when offered one by the weak gringo. The odd thing is even though he refused the weapon he was still a coward; he was constantly stalling the lieutenant trying to live longer. Interestingly enough the lieutenant put up with his stalling and used most of what the priest said against him, telling him how he has ruined peoples lives which I believe he is doing to justify the act of killing him.