Bishop Lane chose to remain, with Father Edward McGurkin as his companion, to symbolize Maryknoll’s desire to be with their people. They were sent to an internment camp in Ssupingkai where they were reunited with Father Armand Jacques, a Canadian Maryknoller who had been there since his arrest on December 1941. The three men stayed in the camp with other Canadian internees until the end of World War II.

But the favourite's power and influence provoke intense ill-feeling among other courtiers, who regard him as a sinister, usurping parvenu with ideas above his station, or perhaps even a sorcerer.

This feels like a flashfic, one of those teensy-weensy short stories that leaves you gasping in just five or six sentences.

Glomeropitcairnia Mez. Bromeliaceae (2). 2 Carib. R: FN 14(1977)1388.