Madame Pele, PartⅡ(6)

Madame Pele, PartⅡ(6)

The Lady's  fearturs were now cold, and those same two glowing coals were deep within her gray eyes.

Perhaps my three companions had eomewhat the same feeling, because the manager said, " We'll finish our inspection of this area, and if you want to go out with us, you can wait by the plane. "

He gestured up the road toward where we landed.

We contnued walking.
But for some strange reason, we had only gone ten feet or so when the idea that this might be Pele entered our minds simultaniously.

We turned around to again look at the Lady.

She was gone !

We ran back.

The manager plunged into the cane field.
The pilot went up the road.
The scientist jogged down another path.
I stood and called her name.

We didn't find her.

A spooky feeling began to creep into all of us, like a cloud invading a rain forest at dusk.

" I think it's time to go, " the pilot said.

No one disagreed.

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