Chapter 23: A Train, a Threat, and Hidden HeartachesThe Bonaventure station is crowded, too loud for his wound-up nerves, so McGauran stays out of everyone’s way, standing near a column with his documents and ticket in hand, his old tattered stitched-up bag at his feet. Once in a while, he glances around at the other guys, Gédéon’s men, but most of them are too busy saying goodbye to their families to pay him any attention, and though he feels alone, he wouldn’t let his mother accompany him to the station. Instead, this morning, they hugged in Widow Leary’s kitchen and she cried into his reefer coat. She told him how happy she was he’s going back to work, finally returning to the right path. Yes, it seems they were all praying for his soul in the last months. Asking God to make him see the
