December's Soldiers by Marvin Tyson

Author:Marvin Tyson [Tyson, Marvin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Defiance Press
Published: 2018-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

Nobody talked much as they drove back down the mountain because the danger of the trip in ice and snow had everyone tense. At the foot of the mountain was an open café, and the group went in to get coffee. The place was small but warm, and there was enough room for everyone to sit. When they were settled in, everyone wanted to hear Sheila’s story.

“Miss Littlefeather,” started Raymond, who was beginning to recover from his bout with altitude sickness.

She held her hand palm out to silence him. “I think we’ve been through enough together to call each other by first names, don’t you? Besides, I’m the youngest one here by far and you know almost everything about me. Sheila. It’s Sheila.”

“All right, Sheila,” Raymond said, a little smile on his face after she finished her speech, “tell us what you can about this mess, and why these guys are so anxious to keep you quiet.”

“I can tell you what I saw and heard, but it’ll be up to you to figure out why they think it’s important enough to hurt and kill people over.”

“Okay,” Raymond said, “tell us what you know and we’ll take it from there.”

“You guys must know what I do in Washington,” she said.

They nodded.

“I have an ad in one of the entertainment weeklies that float around all the big cities. This one is called ‘EROS.’ I get a lot of calls from politicians and lobbyists, you know. I got a call from this guy named Mitchell.” She paused, gathering her thoughts. “He asked me to meet him in the lounge at Three Forks Lodge, Middle Fork Lounge, if I recall, and to dress ‘conservatively.’ I was to enter and tell the bartender who I was looking for. The bartender pointed me in the right direction, and I walked into a little anteroom on the north end of the lounge.

“When I got there, I recognized the man. He was a senator, and had been on TV that afternoon touting some bill he had pushed through that day. It would have been hard not to recognize the name, Mitchell, or the face. Two other men were in the room, and I turned to leave. Senator Mitchell pointed at a chair, so I sat down to wait.

“Soft music was playing in the background but I could hear the conversation going on between them. One of the other guys mentioned that former President Jackson was spending too much time in China, that he thought something was up but he wasn’t sure what. The third man chimed in and said that it must be high stakes, whatever it was, because the Chinese had a regular army of security everywhere Jackson went in the country.”

“The senator snapped at him and said, ‘That’s it? That’s all you heard? That’s nothing to set them off on you.’”

Sheila paused, then added, “That was all I heard there, Raymond. The senator took me out to his car, and when we got to what

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