The Gems of Tsingy de Bemaraha: A Paul Cook Action-Adventure Thriller Novel (The Cook Series Book 1) by Roger Weston

Author:Roger Weston [Weston, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Weston Publishing Enterprises
Published: 2013-12-21T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 31

Kelly took a seat in Dailia’s tent. Her eyes were fixed on the neurotic little woman who held the power of life and death over her. Dailia was talking on her Sat Phone.

“What is taking him so long?” she said. “He’s the best linguist there is, isn’t he?” She paused and eyed Kelly momentarily. “Yes, but he said he’d have it cracked by now.”

“Where is he? … Well, find him!” She hung up and smiled at Kelly, but her smile was forced and brief. She held out Kelly’s blue sapphire. Her fingers gripped it so tightly that the veins in her wrist bulged. “What does this mean?”

“What does what mean?” Kelly said.

“The code!”

“I don’t know what you are talking about.”

Dailia shook her masculine hand. “Don’t play games with me. I know it’s encrypted.”

Kelly stared at the precious stone that Ryan had given her. “May I see it?”

Dailia’s head tilted slightly and she smiled. Peering at Kelly, her yellow eyes lit up with curious anticipation. She leaned forward and handed the stone to Kelly.

When Kelly accepted it, she felt the dry skin on Dailia’s over-sized hand brush her fingers and she cringed inwardly. Turning the brilliant gemstone over in her hand she couldn’t see anything on its surface. Then Dailia passed her an enormous magnifying glass with a twisted handle carved in ivory. Grasping the heavy white handle Kelly focused the glass over the blue stone. A line of six tiny symbols appeared in the lens—the script of a forgotten language. It meant nothing to her. Her mind flashed back in time. She did remember a conversation she’d once had with Ryan when he’d talked about engraving messages in hieroglyphics on the back of gemstones, but he never told her that he had done so, or how to decipher the old-world message. It was never discussed again. She set down the magnifying glass and looked at Dailia.

“I don’t know what they mean,” she said.

“My dear, if you ever want to get out of here, you will cooperate.”

“I’m sorry. I can’t help you.”

“Ryan told you. I know he did.”

Kelly’s heart skipped a beat. “What do you know about Ryan? Where is he?”

“You mean your fiancé?” The doll-like woman brushed her smooth cheek with thick fingers, her eyes stabbing Kelly with a cold glare.

“Please, tell me where he is,” Kelly whimpered.

“You are going to take me there.”

“He’s alive?”

Dailia eyed the sapphire in Kelly’s hand. “He’s long dead, my stupid woman. That is why you are going to take me to his mine. The letters etched on that stone tell the location of the grandest mine ever to be found.”

Kelly began to sob. “Dead?” She looked into Dailia’s eyes hoping that the woman was going to tell her that she was lying, but Dailia’s sick yellow eyes continued to pierce her soul. “Oh, please God, no.” She buried her face in her hands and wept uncontrollably.

Dailia snatched the sapphire out of Kelly’s hand. “You don’t appreciate your situation. Tell me the cipher or I’ll have my men get it out of you the hard way.

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