Madame Pele, PartⅡ(5)

Madame Pele, PartⅡ(5)

The pilot frowned and turned to us.

" I could make two trips in the plane and take her out, " he said.

" Oh, I won't leave here, " the lady said.
" At least not tday. I have work to do. Perhaps I'll be ready to go somewhere else next week. "

" Well, if you don't want to come away with us now, you may have to later today or tomorrow, " the scientist said.

" We'll have to report you to Civil Defence and they will sends hrlicopter in for you. Te eruption has caused an emergency in this part of the island, and there are laws to protect people. "

" I follow my on laws, " the Lady said, and for the first time she stopped smiling.

I remember looking into her eyes at that moment and what I saw was familiar.

While the college, I had spent a Christmas vacation with some friends in a home on a frozen lake in Wisconsin.

We all slept in the living room because the cast iron stove could only heat that room.

The stove was loared with wood at bedtime, but by dawn it was freezing to the touch.

However, when I lifted the lid to put in more wood, there were two gleaming cherry-red coals nestling in the gray ashes that promised instant rekindling.

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