Frantic by Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2011-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

Over the next few days, Judd watched Pavel’s health grow worse. The boy had trouble breathing and could hardly sit up. Judd tried to start the computer Nada had given him but couldn’t. Pavel asked to look at it. His skin was pale and his fingers thin as he turned the machine over.

“Looks like the solar panel,” Pavel said. “It’s not getting power.” He showed Judd where to hook up a regular power supply. Within a few minutes the computer was working.

As Judd inspected different files, he noticed the daily entries of Nada’s brother. “This is almost like a diary,” Judd said. He read a few entries to Pavel.

“ ‘I’ve been assigned duty at the potentate’s headquarters tomorrow,’ ” the boy wrote in an early entry. “ ‘I finally get to see things up close.*’ ”

Judd was puzzled. “I wonder what that asterisk means. There’s a bunch of them throughout the entries.”

“Let me see,” Pavel said. He raised his head and clicked through the file. “There are notes embedded in the text. Something he doesn’t want anyone to see.” He fiddled with the tiny keyboard and a screen popped up. “It’s asking for a password. Four letters.”

“What could be in those secret files?” Judd said.

Pavel shook his head and typed several words, then letters and numbers. He tried combinations using letters from the words Global Community, but each time the computer denied access.

“Sometimes people will use their own initials or birthdays or names of people they’re close to,” Pavel said. “Makes it easy to remember. What’s this guy’s name?”

“Kasim,” Judd said. “I don’t know his middle name.”

Pavel typed more words but came up with nothing.

“Wait,” Judd said, “his sister is Nada. Try that.”

Pavel typed in her name and the computer whirred. “Bingo!”

The document revealed nearly one hundred pages of single-spaced notes Kasim had written. Pavel scrolled down and Judd read over his shoulder.

“Nada came to the training camp today and embarrassed me,” Kasim wrote. “She’s just as committed to her beliefs as I am to Nicolae Carpathia. I hope she’ll see that she’s wrong about him.”

“Can you find anything else about Nada in there?” Judd said.

Pavel did a word search and came up with several more sections with Nada’s name. “Here, read it to me.”

Judd took the computer. “ ‘Talked with Nada today about the facilities here. There is so much luxury and wealth. My room is like a palace compared to back home. Why can’t my family see the truth?’ ”

Judd skipped to the last few pages of notes. “ ‘I talked with Nada tonight about seeing Leon Fortunato in the hallway of the building. It’s exciting anytime I see someone famous, but I can’t tell Nada what’s really going on in my heart.’ ”

Judd scrolled up and found passages that talked about Kasim’s feelings for Kweesa. Kasim mentioned another friend named Dan. “ ‘Dan seems to know what’s going to happen before it does. He thinks there’s a big earthquake coming sometime soon. I’ve asked how he knows all this and he’s been pretty cagey.

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