Hanks nodded in
agreement.
After examining
them, and realizing that they were basically all the same, he
wondered how Hanks could tell a good horse and in the end he chose
what looked the fittest horse.
He was
surprised Hanks instantly agreed, and thought it was a winner, and
was so sure he offered Fogler and Simpson a wager on it, and they
instantly came to a halt with their argument and marched over and
started examining the horses and eventually broke into another
argument.
Hanks
eventually got bored listening, and showed Cameron the horse
again.
“ Want
in?”
“ Where’ll
you keep it?”
“ I’ve
place at our farm! We’d split the money!”
On his reply
the other two came to a complete stop and started shifting over to
him, and they all started debating the horse and what they could
make.
Cameron
acknowledged that he would go along with the deal, even though he
was not entirely sure!
He wondered if
the treasure was a fantasy scheme that one of them had come up
with, and that they were the ones who had come up with searching
there and not him, and that they had been so secretive with him to
get him to go along with it! But he could not see why as all they
were doing was wasting time there, and as soon as the military was
sure the lion was not around anymore they would have to move
away.
The problem he
would eventually have to face was he did not know where he lived or
anything. So when the soldiers were on leave where the hell did he
go! He would be there the rest of his life wondering if he was
being waited on by someone to arrive back! Hanks had a farm and he
realized why he never minded the rural region! And he was sure that
he had been living indoors somewhere! But where? Where?
Yet the
military had to have information on him, and he wondered if he was
married or something! Yet what if he never remembered the woman
like he had with the three soldiers?
The soldier that had informed him that
Malone wanted to see him later entered and walked right up to
Cameron and stared straight his face, and moaned, “Malone wants to
see you in his tent right now!”
Cameron realized he had to do something and
grabbed a bottle of whisky from beside his bed and downed as much
as he could, and gasped, and he shifted out the tent!
Chapter 7
The Well
When
Cameron arrived at Malone’s tent he was told to enter
and Lieutenant Waring jumped onto his feet and downed the last of
his rum and rushed towards the entrance, examining Cameron’s face
from the side of his eyes gasping, and stopped himself asking him
something and rushed out the entrance.
“ Sit down!” Malone ordered, clearly
annoyed about something, which Cameron could not grasp.
He was sitting trying to contemplate some
thought when the phone rang and he instantly grabbed at it and
listened without hearing anything, and when someone spoke he
launched into an argument with someone over not doing what he
wanted and started thumping his desk with his fist, and shouted and
hung up, and banged the phone down.
“ Cameron!” he eventually forced himself
to whisper. “What are you doing?”
He stared deep into his eyes, trying to
penetrate into his mind, and saw his face and looked away, while
trying to contemplate some thought.
“ Nothing as far as I know!” he moaned,
not knowing what to think or do, or what he meant.
“ There has been a complaint about you
already!” he announced loudly, seeing if he would react.
“ About what?” he gasped, wondering who
complained about soldiers and wondered what they would complain
about.
“ That’s it Cameron! People don’t like
you! They complain everywhere and you just keep ignoring it! Don’t
you?”
Cameron realized that there were people
complaining about him everywhere and did not like it, and he
wondered what they were complaining of and why they never liked
him. Then he realized that Malone must have people complaining all
the time with them being there, and he wondered what he was