The Priest, the Stranger, The gringo??

After reading the third chapter of The Power and the Glory, I was able to answer some questions and some doubts I had from the first two chapters. some more characters are intrduced and that gives us more backgroung information in order to identify the straight plot. At this point I was able to make a straight connection from the last two chapter and it was that the same stranger that was drinking some brandy at Mr. Tench´s house, the man that left in a mule with the younger kid, the guy that was using the captains hut and his daughter´s nobleness to hide from the authorities, the Priest that ended in a very poor house full of rats and without being able to sleep because of the confesions of the people who lived there, are the same person, or at least thats what until know I can say.
There are many factor that helped me discover this connections. For instance, there is one clue that appears every time they mention him and is his english speaking in a latin town, not very common.
-"Somebody whispered in english, ¨What did you say?¨ Mr. Tench swivelled around. ¨You English?¨he asked in atonishment,"(pg. 9).
-"¨Quien es usted?¨ Captain Fellows said. ¨I speak English.¨" (pg. 37).
This clue help us because, as the author states at the beggining, is not very common to see someone speak a foreign language so basically by this we can connect the stranger from the beggining with the guy hidding from the authorities in the Captains house.
Another of those clues I found to connect all this characters as being one, is when they describe the character and give us details of what he is wearing and taking with him. they mention two very important things: an attaché case he takes averywhere and the brandy he had at the begining that then asks to the Captain if he has some.
-"A small man dressed in a shabby dark city suit, carrying a small attaché case." (Pg. 9).
_"He clutched a small attaché case to his side,..." (pg 37).
Like I mentioned before, he always carried along with this attaché, a bottle of Brandy or if he didnt had one, he asked for any king of drink that had alcohol.
-"¨I have a little brandy,¨the stranger said" (Pg. 11)
-"Ïf you would do me a favour...¨ ¨What?¨ ¨A little brandy.¨" (Pg. 38).

These were some of the connections I could come up with by reading the second twenty pages. There are some more clues I can think about in this moment but that still are not very clerly stated so I would prefers on waiting to read the next chapters and see what happens. Until now I find very interesting the novel because it makes you thnk a lot and makes you get into the story like a detective.
Mariana Gonzalez
September 26/2007
(Pg 30-45)