Colonel Ready had planned to arrest Celezon when he returned to the capital. Ready had tolerated him when the pretense of the government had to be maintained. Celezon had been Yvette’s choice, not Ready’s, not the CIA’s.
Celezon had rallied the gendarmes noirs left in the capital and two of them pointed their M-17s at Celezon and said he was under arrest.
Six others of them killed the two in the square in front of the palace.
Yvette gave him francs and jewelry. Celezon and nine men were in the hills when Ready entered the capital.
Celezon, priest and brother, was welcomed into the shroud of hills as the man they had been waiting for, the people in the hills, the people of the stronger faith.