Jack Taggart Mysteries 9-Book Bundle. Don Easton
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“Tell them all to stand,” said the bald ape, speaking English.
“Yes, Styopa,” replied the Vietnamese man. He then gave the command in Vietnamese and everyone got to their feet.
For H
The vulture and the bald ape approached each woman and pointed for them to stand on one side of the room or the other. As this happened, the Vietnamese man wrote everyone’s names down on two lists.
It is the Vietnamese custom not to look into a person’s face. To do so could imply a lack of respect. In this case, H
“You are the young one,” he said. “You speak English?” he asked.
H
“Let me hear you talk,” he commanded.
H
“Good. And you are going to the States to live with an American family, correct?”
“Yes, to live in the house of Mister Pops.”
“Mister Pops!” The bald ape glanced at the vulture and they both chuckled before turning back to H
“My father wanted me to go first. To make sure it would be good for my sister.”
“That is very prudent,” said the vulture. “Your father is a wise man, but you will see that you are very happy there.”
The bald ape grabbed H
When the men finished dividing the women into two groups, the bald ape walked back to one young woman and poked her in the ribs with his finger and turned to his Vietnamese colleague and said, “This one is too fat. Nobody will want her.”
The Vietnamese colleague said, “She is fat now, but she will be much thinner in six weeks when she arrives.”
The bald ape blurted out a laugh.
H
She risked glancing at the vulture. His face was cold, without expression. A slit under his beak cracked open and he said, “They are all okay. Get them to the ship.”
Moments later, H
It was three hours later when they hurried up a wooden gangplank in the dark to the deck of a ship. The women were told to remain in the two groups they had been divided in. Each group was directed to a separate cargo hold.
They were told to climb down a ladder leading below deck and a man stood at the top of each ladder to help. H
H
The man who had grabbed H
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