Bilocations, Chapter Fourteen: The Mexican Pals Get the Band Back Together!

Kind of funny I was JUST wondering whether Günther would reappear, and here he is again, in Mexico as promised, where Frank and Ewball Oust are employed procuring armaments for the revolution. They all get invited to a party where more familiar faces appear, and more work is in the offing. There's a problem with some missing Mondragón semiautomatics, and Frank may be employed to find them. First, Günther introduces him to an intermediary known as Eusebio Gómez, but Frank knows this isn't quite right, and by means of gratuitously insulting the Irish ("oh they're easy to spot--red-nose drunk all the time, jabbering, dirt-ignorant, idiot politics--"), gets him to blow his cover and reveal himself as none other than Wolfe Tone O'Rooney, whom Reef had met in New Orleans. They introduce themselves and talk about what the Traverse family responsibilities are at this point. Rooney suggests, of Lake, that "a man might almost think you miss her a little" (641). But Frank remains ice-cold: "Hell. Only way I'd miss her's if my sights was off" (642).

Next, they meet their old cellmate, Dwayne Provecho. They don't like or trust him, and to be honest, I'm not really clear on why. I went back to review his first appearance, and they seemed to part on reasonable terms. But the point is: they don't. Trust him. In spite of which, he might end up working with Frank again transporting weapons. And that is the end of this short chapter.