Out of the Deep by Gloria Skurzynski

Author:Gloria Skurzynski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2002-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“Sh-she’s out there,” Jack stammered. “Bindy—she said she wants us to meet her on the shore.

Right now!”

Ashley’s dark eyebrows shot halfway up her forehead, and her voice came out even higher. “You know we’re not allowed to leave this room.

We can’t go.”

“I tried to tell her, but she didn’t listen. She said she could see me standing on the balcony, which really creeps me out. She said we had ten minutes to meet her, and then she hung up.”

Ashley didn’t wait for Jack to finish. Banging open the sliding door, she ran to the balcony and waved wildly, calling, “Bindy! Bin-dy!” When she leaned over the railing so far that her head seemed to disappear, Jack grabbed her by her belt loops, yanked her back, and set her down with a thud. “She can’t hear you. She’s way too far away.” He pointed to the rocky coast where she’d told them to meet her, slicked wet with ocean water and kelp. The tree line began just beyond the rocks—tall, cone-shaped pines, dark and full of shadow, that seemed to guard the land from the sea. Was she hiding in there, watching both of them now?

“We’ve got to call Mom and tell her what’s happened,” Jack said grimly.

“Bindy said ten minutes. How much is left?”

Jack glanced at his watch. “Eight minutes.”

Hurrying back inside, he grabbed the phone and punched his mother’s cell number. Come on, Mom, be there. Answer this time. Come on!

You have reached Dr. Olivia Landon at the Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole. If this is an emergency, please call the Jackson Hole Veterinary Hospital. Or, if you’d like to leave a message, please….

Slamming the receiver into its cradle, he yelled, “I don’t believe it! Who the heck is she talking to?”

“The park people are probably using it.”

“Yeah. Maybe you’re right.”

“Should we call the police?”

“Bindy will be gone before they can get here.”

He began to pace the room, stopping at the sliding glass doors, looping back to the bathroom, then back to the balcony. Ashley sat on a bed, cross-legged, her dark eyes following him. For a second time he called his mother, this time leaving a message. After a third attempt, he found himself fidgeting at the motel door; he could feel Ashley staring at him.

“You’re not seriously thinking of going out there.”

“Got to,” he snapped. “Time’s past up. If I could ever get through to Mom, she’d probably tell us to go after Bindy. I’ve got to find her and make her come back.”

“Why?” Ashley thundered. “Just let her go. She’s nothing but trouble.”

Jack’s voice was just as hot. “You don’t get it, do you? Just think about how bad it could be for Mom and Dad if Bindy disappears. They’re the ones responsible for her! It could get really, really ugly, and I’m not going to let that happen.”

With her thin arms crossed tightly over her chest, Ashley said through tight lips, “What if Dad comes back and finds us gone? It could get really, really ugly for you and me.

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