Dragons in the Waters by Madeleine L'Engle

Author:Madeleine L'Engle [L'Engle, Madeleine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781466814110
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2011-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

It was over an hour before Aunt Leonis reached the filling-station phone, during which time both Dr. O’Keefe and Mr. Theo made calls, Dr. O’Keefe to Benne Seed Island, Mr. Theo to Caracas, to say he would be delayed but hoped to arrive in good time for Emily’s first concert, which was still a full week off. Then he put in a call to England, and for this he asked Simon to step outside. Why would Mr. Theo be calling England? At this moment it did not seem to Simon to be very important. The captain talked again with the police in Lake of Dragons, and put in a call to Holland.

When Aunt Leonis was finally on the phone the captain spoke to her first. He told her, briefly, what had happened, then listened carefully. Then he said, “I am glad that you will come. I know that my government would wish to see this—more than unpleasantness—this dreadful event—resolved as soon as possible. We will make arrangements to have you flown here at your earliest convenience … You will come at once? That is good.” He handed the headset to Simon.

Aunt Leonis’s voice crackled strangely but was quite comprehensible. “I will be with you by tomorrow evening, Simon. I have read Quentin Phair’s letters. There was more than Umar on the back of the portrait, but we will not talk of it till I arrive.” Then static took over and he could make nothing out of the last garbled words.

No matter, Aunt Leonis was coming. There was still horror, but if Aunt Leonis was going to be with them in Venezuela, then somehow she would manage to bring order out of chaos as she always had done.

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