Indiana Jones and the Secret of Easter Island by Wolfgang Hohlbein

Author:Wolfgang Hohlbein [Hohlbein, Wolfgang]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fandom
Published: 2023-03-20T23:00:00+00:00

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“Of course she’s insane,” said Jonas later, after they had returned and Indy and Ganty had told the others about their meeting with Adele Sandstein. “Who wouldn’t be after eight months of being held prisoner by these cannibals?”

“Eight months? But then she must have…”

“…been taken prisoner on practically the first day, yes,”

Jonas finished the sentence and nodded. “She was the first to fall into their hands.”

“Fell into their hands, good,” murmured Indy. “I had the feeling before that it was the Long Ears who fell into her hands, not the other way around.” He started to pace, worried, back and forth across the small chamber, but after a couple of seconds he gave it up and sat back down.

During his absence, the Polynesians had brought food: Flat wooden plates with a porridge that tasted just as it looked: Like damp wallpaper. Indy shrank back at first, but then he told himself that he might have to deal with this type of food for a rather long time and began to eat with his fingers for lack of silverware.

“How did she even manage to convince them that she’s their leader?” he asked.

“We know that just as little as you do,” answered Jonas.

He looked at Indy silently for a second, then he went over to the unconscious Delano and started to search through his uniform. Indy interrupted his meal and watched Jonas until he made his discovery: With a face like a child who was picking up a gift from beneath the Christmas tree, he pulled a singed pack of cigarettes from Delano’s uniform jacket and snapped open his lighter.

“Ah, that feels good.” He smiled appreciatively, suddenly wheezed, and took a new, even deeper draw as soon as he had caught his breath. “The first after eight months of abstinence,” he explained to Indy. “It’s probably madness again to start again after three quarters of a year, but I don’t think that we’ll really need to worry about our health.

Perhaps,” he continued, grinning, “it will ruin their stomachs as well as my lungs.”

Indy didn’t think that was very funny. “We were talking about Baroness Sandstein,” he reminded him.

“Baroness?” Jonas hacked again as the gray cigarette smoke rose from his mouth and nose as if in an explosion.

“She is just as little a baroness as you are an Indian chief, Indy,” he said after he had caught his breath again and took another greedy drag on his cigarette. He tapped his thumb against his forehead. “I’m telling you: She’s gone mad.

She probably thinks that she really is what the Bird People see her as.”

“And what is that?” asked Indy.

“A goddess,” answered Ganty in Jonas’ place.

All of them suddenly turned their attention to him, confused. Ganty hadn’t spoken a word since they had returned, instead crouched silently in one corner of the chamber, brooding. Even now he didn’t look at anyone directly, instead stared at an imaginary point somewhere on the wall behind Indy.

“What?” asked Indy finally.

Ganty looked up now. “Did you see her ears?”

Indy answered no.

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