"Watching what?" Lowell's steel-cold, flinty grey eyes were boring into the minister's skull, as if they could see everything he was thinking. "What were they watching, Reverend?" He shook his head and clucked his tongue. "Listen, if you want me to do something about this revelation of yours you're going to have to be a little more explicit and present a few facts."

"All right. The other night there was a little red-haired child of about twelve years of age over there. She was completely naked and lying on a bed and some man about sixty years of age climbed on top of this innocent girl, while about a dozen other men watched, and the first thing you know he spread the child's legs so wide she looked like she'd crack down the middle… and then he put his head down, right there between her legs, and uh… to put it delicately… began to lick her genital area."

The old man stared at him, not saying anything, his eyes boring through him once again. "Well…?"

"Well what?"

"What else? Did anything else take place over there or is that about it?"

"The caller said there was another youngster… couldn't have been any older than the little redhead and almost the same thing happened with her except that she was uh… sucking a penis, wrapping it around some old man's penis until it was hard as a rock. And then, God forgive her, she took the whole length of it into her mouth and almost choked on the thing."

The Dean shuffled the papers on his desk, cleared his throat and took out a cigarette. He stuck it in the corner of his mouth, fumbled for his lighter amidst the papers and took a deep drag. He blew a smoke ring out and watched it float off in little wisps of white, disappearing into stale air. "Seems to me that this could be a made up story. You have no names, nothing. Some guy calls up and tells you about a red-haired kid that may or may not be a student here at Craven… what kind of evidence is that… I can't summon every redheaded kid in the school to my office to ask her if she's been sucking cock over at the School Board offices, now can I, Reverend?"