Marge said, “Luke told us that Decameron had called him up, early in the morning, wanting to talk about the family. But not over the phone. Right?”

“Right,” Decker muttered.

“Maybe that’s what he wanted to tell Luke. That it may come out that his father was gay.”

“He’d bother calling Luke up just to tell him that?” Oliver said.

Marge said, “Maybe he wanted to spare the family some embarrassment and/or ridicule.”

“Then why would he call Luke?” Oliver said. “Why not Bram?”

Rina said, “Maybe Dr. Decameron felt Luke was more worldly about human foibles…being as Luke had been a user.”

“Or the answer could have been much more pedestrian,” Decker said. “Bram had been occupied that morning. Very busy. First with Mass, then with his mother. Decameron knew Dolly Sparks hated him. He wouldn’t have called up the house.”

“Aha,” Marge said. “Maybe that’s why she hated him. She found out that her husband and Decameron were having an affair.”

“Nah, I don’t buy that,” Oliver said.

“Why not?”

Oliver said, “Margie, why would Decameron call up Luke to tell him about their affair?”

“Blackmail,” Marge suggested.

“Nah, Reggie was a good guy,” Oliver said.

“You keep saying that,” Marge answered. “That don’t make it so.”

Rina said, “So how did Dr. Decameron come to have Dr. Sparks’s magazines?”

“Could be that after Azor died, Decameron went through Sparks’s office…to clean things up.” Oliver shrugged. “Maybe he found the magazines.”

“Christ!” Decker was disgusted with himself. “The Fisher/Tyne data you two had requested. At Sparks’s memorial service, Decameron told me he was going to look through Azor’s files to find the most updated numbers. Could be he came across the magazines by accident.”

Marge said, “Then Decameron took them home with him, intending to give them to Luke…to dispose of them as he saw fit.”

“The magazines which had A. M. Sparks on the wrappers,” Rina said pointedly. “Having found them in his boss’s file cabinets, Decameron knew that A. M. stood for Azor Moses. But Luke didn’t know. He just assumed they belonged to his unmarried priest brother Bram. So I’m not so stupid.”

“No, darling, you are not stupid.”

Rina smiled. “You’re a good sport.”

“I’m a lousy sport,” Decker said. “I’m pissed as hell. You know, Decameron may have also found Bram’s apartment key in Azor’s files. Maybe he thought his boss had a secret hideaway for his activities.”

“What would Azor be doing with Bram’s apartment key?” Marge asked.

“I’ve got a key to my daughter’s apartment in New York. In case of emergencies.”

Marge said, “I still don’t understand why Bram would have kept his dead father’s porno magazines in his safe.”