Rafael Delgado
Dockhand and Saturday-night boxer
- Age
- 27
- From
- New Bedford
- Lives
- Seamen's Bethel & Rest
- Now
- Between investigations
Before Arkham's business
Portuguese-Azorean family from New Bedford. Unloads coal by day, fights at the Wayside on Saturdays for five dollars a bout. Won nineteen, lost four, doesn't count the draws.
Cheerful, loyal, quick-tempered, braver than is good for him. Writes his mother every week.
Afraid of
Things he can't hit · Letting his mother down
Believes
Stand up. Keep your guard up. Look after your own.
From the journal
Montreal. Quiet here. I don't think about Arkham much. I think about it all the time.
Going to New Bedford for Mãe's saint's day. Three days of food and aunts pinching my face. Somebody's behind it. Find him.
Sang fado at the Heron till Malloy threw a towel at me. That's applause, where I come from. Somebody's behind it. Find him.