Windmills Of The Gods by Sidney Sheldon

Author:Sidney Sheldon [Sheldon, Sidney]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: C429, Extratorrents, Kat
Published: 2011-10-20T21:17:37+00:00

Chapter Eight

THE day Beth and Tim were to start school, Mary got a call at five a.m. from the embassy that a NIACT-A night action cable-had come in and required an immediate answer. It was the start of a long and busy day, and by the time Mary returned to the residence, it was after seven p.m. The children were waiting for her.

“Well,” Mary asked, “how was school?”

“I like it,” Beth replied. “Did you know there are kids there from twenty-two different countries? This neat Italian boy kept staring at me all through class. It’s a great school.”

“They’ve got a keen science laboratory,” Tim added. “Tomorrow we’re going to take some Remanian frogs apart.”

“well, I’m glad you had no problems.”

Beth said, “No, Mom. Mike Slade took care of us.”

“What does Mike Slade have to do with your going to school?”

“Didn’t he tell you? He took us there and introduced us to our teachers. He knows them all.”

“He knows a lot of kids there too,” Tim said. “And he introduced us to them. Everybody likes him. He’s a neat guy.”

A little too neat, Mary thought.

THE following morning when Mike walked into Mary’s office, she said, “I understand that you took Beth and Tim to school.”

He nodded. “It’s tough for youngsters, trying to adjust in a foreign country. They’re good kids. And speaking of kids, we have a sick one here you’d better take a look at “

He led her to a small office down the corrido;. On the couch was a whitefaced young marine, groaning in pain.

“What happened?” Mary asked.

“My guess is appendicitis.”

“Then we’d better get him to a hospital right away.”

“Not here. He has to be flown either to Rome, Zurich, or Frankfurt. No one from an American embassy ever goes to a hospital in an iron curtain country.

“But why?”

“Because we’re vulnerable. We could be put under either or given scopolamine. They could extract all kinds of information from us. It’s a State Department rule. We fly him out.”

“Why don’t we have our own doctor?” Mary snapped.

“Because we’re a C-category embassy. We haven’t the budget for our own doctor. An American doctor pays us a visit here once every three months. In the meantime, we have a pharmacist for minor aches and pains.” He picked up a form from the desk. “Just sign this, and he’s on his way.”

“Very well.” Mary signed the paper. She walked over to the young marine and took his hand in hers. “You’re going to be fine , she said softly. “Just fine.”

Two hours later the marine was on a plane to Frankfurt.

MARY SPENT EVERY possible MOMENT she could with the children. They did a lot of sight-seeing. There were dozens of museums and old churches to visit, but for the children the highlight was the trip to Dracula’s castle in Brasoy, located in the heart of Transylvania, a hundred miles from Bucharest.

“The,countThe count was really a prince,” Florian explained on the drive

up. nnce Vlad Tepes. He was the great hero who stopped the Turkish invasion.

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