Chapter 16

Yet it was Pareso’s face, standing there with a hungry look in his cavernous eyes and a sourly triumphant smile about his thin lips, that finally brought the truth of the matter home to me. “What is it we’ve found?” I asked. “We’ve found our Lost Tribe!” proclaimed Pareso as he stood with his hands folded over his chest, staring off into the distance where lay that strange kingdom he had traveled so far to conquer. CHAPTER FOUR WE ENCOUNTER A WOMAN WE FARED better, that first night in our …