Bells of San Angelo (1947)

Fritz Leiber: Padre

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Padre : It's always good when you come here and we join our voices together in song. I'm only sorry that trouble brings you here.

  Roy Rogers : I'm sorry too, Padre, but I think with the help of my friends over the border here, we'll be able to get this thing straightened out.

• [seeking the location of an old Mexican silver mine, Roy, Cookie, Lee and the Padre find a clue on one of the bells of San Angelo church] 

  Padre : [reading the inscription]  "As the sun rises, the shadow of my arms and the pillar of my strength shall mark that which God made and whence came the bells of San Angelo."

  Lee Madison : That's beautiful!

  Cookie Bullfincher : But what does it mean?

  Roy Rogers : "... The shadow of my arms and the pillar of my strength..." Arms, pillar - that must mean a cross! Cookie, do you know where there's a cross around here?

  Cookie Bullfincher : Sure! On top of the church.

  Roy Rogers : No, I mean up in the hills near the border where the mine could be.

  Padre : None now, but there was a shrine many years ago to which the people came to pray to Santa Guadalupe at Easter.

  Cookie Bullfincher : Sure, Padre, I remember. On your side of the border near some rimrock!