The Discovery Saga Collection by Wanda E. Brunstetter

Author:Wanda E. Brunstetter [Brunstetter, Wanda E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781630589691
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

Meredith’s hand shook as she reached for the phone to dial the sheriff’s number. Thankfully, she’d done as Sheriff Tyler suggested and tacked the number for his office to the wall inside the shack. She assumed he wouldn’t be in his office at this hour, but surely someone would be there to answer the phone. Or maybe it would be better just to call 911, because she was sure whomever she talked to would send help.

Woof! Woof! Woof! Fritz barked frantically from outside the phone shack, and Meredith cringed. Maybe I should have left him in the house to protect Alma. But if I’d done that, his barking might have woken Alma, and she wouldn’t have understood what was going on.

Meredith felt so rattled, she could barely think straight, much less make a phone call. If Luke was here with me right now, I wouldn’t feel so afraid and confused.

With trembling fingers, Meredith made the 911 phone call. After she’d told the dispatcher there was an intruder in her basement, she was warned not to go back in the house but to wait in the phone shack for help to arrive.

Meredith didn’t want to go back to the house, but the thought of leaving Alma there all alone made her nervous.

Remain calm, a voice in her head seemed to say. Remain calm and stay put like you were told to do.

She thought about the verse of scripture she’d read the other day: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” John 14:27.

Feeling a bit more relaxed, Meredith paused to offer a prayer. “Heavenly Father, please keep Alma and me safe, and send us some help real soon.”

Meredith opened the door and let Fritz into the phone shack with her. It should keep him from barking and help her remain calmer too. She didn’t want Fritz’s yapping to alert whoever was in the basement any more than it might already have.

It seemed like an eternity before she saw the sheriff’s car pull into the yard. She was glad it was him and not some other officer she didn’t know very well.

“We were on patrol and received word that you’d called about an intruder,” Sheriff Tyler said when he and his deputy, Earl Graves, got out of the car.

Meredith nodded, relieved that help was finally there. “The intruder’s in the basement. I wedged a chair in front of the basement door, so hopefully he won’t get into the main part of the house.”

The sheriff gave her a nod. “Good thinking. Did you get a look at him, or did he say anything to you?”

“No, but I know someone’s in the basement because of all the noise I heard coming from down there. It sounded like they were rummaging through everything, although I don’t know why, because there’s nothing really valuable down there.”

“Well, you’d better stay out here and let us handle the situation.

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