If Delaney became the 27th, he would likely play an immediate role in the sabotage scheme of which Fonseca was currently in charge. If things worked out, and no one else got killed between now and then, Delaney might become the man he’d always wished Josh Simmons would have become. Paulo understood that if the transients had something to live for on the other side, it was impossible to convince them they had something to die for on this side. Simmons had too much to live for on the other side, and now spent his life running back and forth between two very different worlds. While 14 of the 26 men had answered the call from different parts of their own country, the remaining 12 were from elsewhere — eight of them were Americanos who had mostly shown promise to Fonseca upon their arrival, including Simmons. One was Hawkins, however, who showed no promise. The other four were from different parts of Europe. Like most Americanos Fonseca had known in his life, especially when he attended college in California and before he himself answered the call of the revolucion, each man came here with his own set of circumstances and problems.
