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"Ruth asked me  why  the  knife block  was  gone," Paul  Bergin told Klaus Hansen  at the  temple. "I told her  I didn't  know anything about  it. She said  she let  this FBI fellow  take her fingerprints, and  that makes  me wish the  knife was  done away with like the clothes and other stuff."

"What's done is done," Klaus said. "That was the murder weapon and I didn't know how soon I could get rid of it. Bloody clothes I could explain. A bloody knife I could not."

"What if the sheriff and this Agent Felt come here next?"

That made Hansen ponder a  bit. He said, "Now maybe is  a good time for both of us to be tending to the flock."

Outside of the temple they looked  down at the parking  lot and saw three marked law  enforcement vehicles  and a  rental. They tried to go back  inside but Sheriff  Walker and  Special Agent Mark Felt were already waiting for  them on either side  of the front door.

Roddy said, "Paul Bergin, you are under arrest for the murder of Kimberly Zinter."

Paul was frozen in shock, so Roddy grabbed his jacket sleeve and cuffed his bare wrist. Then he made Paul face one of the doors. After both arms were cuffed behind Paul's back Roddy patted him down, removed his wallet, and unlatched the carabiner key chain looped to his belt. He handed both of these to Felt, then turned Paul over to  his deputies  who were  coming up  the flight  of stairs leading  to the  temple. "Fingerprints, new home,  not a word to anybody, boys."

The deputies took Bergin  away just as  Special Agent-in-Charge Tolson arrived on the with Agent Sullivan in tow. Sheriff Walker introduced Hansen to Felt as the Apostle of  the Church. Hansen was indignant. "Prophet of the Church, if you please."

"I need to talk to you," said Felt, "but first, we have a court order to search the Temple for evidence pertaining to the murder of Kimberly Zinter."

Klaus demanded to see the order and Tolson let him read it. Then he said, "I will hold you to the absolute letter of this search warrant, as though it were sacred scripture. You may search only in the rooms which are locked with those keys."

Gabriel Shybear was waiting for them just inside.