Berry, Steve - The Columbus Affair by Berry Steve

Author:Berry, Steve [Berry, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thrillers, Men's Adventure, Action & Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 034552652X
Amazon: B005OCYQJU
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2012-05-15T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT

BÉNE HEAVED A SIGH OF RELIEF AS THE PLANE ROSE FROM SANTIAGO de Cuba’s international airport. He’d been worried that when the curator awoke he’d alert the police, especially since he’d not left the other $500. He’d never mentioned that they’d flown in, but the airport still could have been staked out. No officers, though, had been anywhere in sight when they made it back, and they’d left unimpeded.

Tre had crammed two plastic bins with documents, some from both rooms, which they’d brought with them. The only repercussions from the theft would involve the Simon, and he wanted that to happen.

He owed him.

“Béne,” Tre said. “Are you going to tell me what happened back there? You looked like you were going to kill that guy.”

He needed his friend’s help so he decided to say, “Simon and I have been working together on finding the mine.”

“Which you’ve never mentioned.”

“Why would I?” And he saw that his friend realized there was a line that need not be crossed. But he added, “Let’s just say that I’ve come to learn he’s not somebody you want to work with.”

“Those police were there for us?”

He nodded. “Simon sent them. The curator called him. He didn’t want us to leave Cuba alive.”

The reality of the situation—the proximity of death—seemed to hit Halliburton. There’d been no time to explain while on the ground. They’d grabbed what they could and sped back to the airport, all the while keeping an eye on the rearview mirrors.

“Why would Simon kill us?”

“He wants the mine. He doesn’t want me to know what he knows.”

Tre had been thumbing through one volume ever since they were aboard. He’d seemed anxious to examine it.

“What is that?” he asked.

“Some sort of diary. A narrative.”

Tre showed him the pages. The script was block style in thick black ink, justified on the right and left. Maybe twelve to fifteen lines per page.

“It’s in great shape, considering how it’s been stored,” Tre said. “And it’s written in Castilian.”

“Is that important?”

“It could be.”

All he wanted to know was, “Did we get what we came for?” But Tre was reading.

He decided to leave him alone. The plane was still climbing, heading south toward Montego Bay, away from Cuba. The Simon’s reach was far greater than he’d imagined, and his interest in the lost mine more intense than represented.

“Béne,” Tre said. “Listen to this.”

We find meaning of our mission in the sacred word. Numbers makes clear that “and with you bring your brother also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony. They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent. They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you. And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.

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