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...story of The Wages of Fear is the story of how two young European derelicts, the Frenchman Gerard and the Rumanian Johnny, ride the nitro in at high speed for $1,000 each...
...imprisonment Father Gerard's Christian resignation was tempered by a Jesuit conviction that the Lord helps those who help themselves. His jailer had allowed him to visit a fellow prisoner in another part of the Tower...
Writes Father Gerard: "While we were passing the time of day together, it struck me how close this tower was to the moat encircling the outer fortifications, and I thought it might be possible for a man to lower himself with a rope from a roof of the tower onto the wall beyond the moat." A few weeks later, with the help of confederates outside, he did exactly that...
Rash Adventurers. In 1605, not long after James I* succeeded Elizabeth, Guy Fawkes and some other rash adventurers hatched their abortive plot to blow up King James and his Protestant Parliament. Although Father Gerard knew nothing of the plot, the anti-Catholic reaction was so strong that he had to leave the country. He slipped across the Channel disguised as a servant of the Spanish ambassador...
...Continent to study for the priesthood. "God grant," he told himself after the shores of England slipped away, "that I may always love and dutifully carry the cross of Christ and walk worthily of the vocation to which I am called." The Jesuits gave Father Gerard other offices to perform, e.g., rector of a house of philosophy at Liege, confessor to the English College at Rome. But he never saw England again...