Down In The Valley: An Arch Patton Adventure (Arch Patton Adventures Book 1) by Strauss James

Author:Strauss, James [Strauss, James]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Antares Productions, Inc
Published: 2016-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

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Stairway to Heaven?” Arch said, looking intently into Matisse’s eyes.

“I don’t like the way you said that. What heaven or what hell are you talking about and what does it have to do with the word Haiku DeWare mentioned?”

Matisse waved the waitress away when she approached. “There’s a metal stairway built during WWII up to the highest peak of the Koolau range. Over two thousand rungs going up as many feet. The rusted remains of those metal stairs remain to this day. People have died trying to climb them. Something about them involved in all this?”

“Oh,” Arch replied. “I don’t know, but there must be. What else could the word refer to? Where are the stairs?”

“Haiku,” Matisse responded. “The steps start where H3 comes through the mountains on the windward side just up from Haiku Plantations and Gardens. There’s a graveyard there that leads to path under the freeway and up to the base of the mountains. With your hand we can’t even think about what you’re thinking right now.”

Arch held his hand in front of him, splayed as flat as he could make it on the tabletop. The wound no longer caused him agonizing pain, only a dull sort of throbbing ache. He tried to flex his fingers but could only get them to curve a small bit before grimacing and opening his hand again. He thought about the valley where the stairway base had to be. Near or possibly the same valley where it had all begun. Somehow he and Matisse were going to end up back down in that valley. The thought was anything but pleasant.

“We don’t know anything for sure,” Arch said, knowing he wouldn’t be climbing any two thousand-rung ladders anytime soon, if ever. “We’ve got to find out more and I can see only one way since our assault on Bellows was such a blatant failure.”

“Blatant?” Matisse inquired, waving the waitress over.

“Apparent, obvious, right in front of our faces,” Arch replied, his tone acidic.

“How we get more to know?” Matisse asked before whispering some order to the waitress who bent down to hear him. He looked up into Arch’s eyes when he was done ordering and his facial expression changed.

“Virginia the bitch,” he whispered, almost sub vocally.

“What else can we do?” Arch said. “We’re at a dead end. Bellows is closed off and we can’t exactly go exploring the valley and climbing thousands of feet in the air without finding out what’s going on. The big plane is only a clue. There’s something bigger. Your own people are going to be wiped out or sent off to Guantanamo or some place like that for a long time unless we figure this out.”

“How you know the bitch doesn’t know?” Matisse responded.

“Don’t call her that anymore,” Arch ordered

“Okay, brah, but you know what I mean. Where we going find the Haole white cold woman?”

“North Shore,” Arch answered, ignoring Matisse’s sarcasm. “She’s taken a vacation rental at Sunset Beach on one of those small back roads that parallel Kam Highway.

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