Solomon's Throne by Wright Jennings

Author:Wright, Jennings [Wright, Jennings]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

They were sitting at a table, shaded by a thatched umbrella, when Mr. Wandere came running out of the office waving the phone over his head.

“Bwana! Bwana! Telephone, sir!” He handed the phone to Gideon with a flourish and a grin. “Thank you, please!”

Gideon took the phone. “Mr. Xavier? You found it? Great! Hang on a sec, let me get Rei’s paper.” Rei passed him the notebook and pen, and she and Mr. Wandere both stood by as he talked, nodded, questioned, took notes, and ended with, “I’m not sure, probably have to fly. Let me discuss it with Rei and see what can come up with. I’ll call you back… If Mr. Wandere doesn’t mind?” He looked at the manager, who nodded eagerly.

After Mr. Wandere took his phone back to the office, promising that they could use it any time at all, Gideon explained what Mr. Xavier had discovered.

“Good news, bad news, I guess. Apparently the “stone houses” are in Zimbabwe. Something called Great Zimbabwe. And as an aside, the word Zimbabwe actually means “stone houses”, if we’d only known. Anyway, it’s 175 kilometers from Harare, where the main airport is. And Zimbabwe’s not exactly stable, so we don’t want to go driving alone through the countryside. There is a small airport at Masvingo, which is only 10 miles away from Great Zimbabwe, though. The bad news is that we’re going to have to go back to Inhambane to fly out. Mr. Xavier has a membership through the AmEx card that gives him jet hours. So he can have a plane get us tomorrow, and take us to Masvingo.”

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