Salute To The General

Chapter 2090



It was nine in the evening. Kylie and Ava were having dinner with Queenie at a fast food outlet.

Queenie looked distracted. She hardly seemed to pay attention to her chicken wings and ice cream. Looking up at Kylie, she asked softly, "Aunt Kylie, is my mama all right?"

"Didn't you say that my papa and mama will come and get me? Why aren't they here yet?"

"Don't worry, Queenie." Kylie smiled reassuringly. "Your dad called this afternoon. He said he had rescued your mom, and he just called to say that they will come right now and get you."

"Eat while you can, they'll be here any minute."

Queenie nodded but didn't touch her food.

Instead, she stared out of the window

impatiently.

Someone took advantage of the fire at summer camp and kidnapped mama in the confusion.

She cried looking for her.

a relief for Queenie when Kylie and Ava told her that her mother was

She needed to see her mother with her own

swung open, and a crowd of

thinking that her parents and maybe Uncle Colin had

it was just a bunch of

before.

with an awfully pale face. His most striking feature was his

his gaze and turned away quickly in

the effect he produced. Leading

glance that these people were

and hadn't stopped to wash. The pestilence amidst them was difficult to

mercenaries. By this

share a

true motives, but she didn't like the look of them all the same. "Excuse me, we do mind," she said

want to

picked up a piece of chicken that she was in the middle of eating and ate it whole. He chewed and suckled for some minutes, and then spat the bare bones

good!” Vann

out of line," Kylie shouted. "Ava, teach him a

soon as she saw them coming in. In

quick as lightning. If

skilled