

"I'm going to swim for it right now," he said. Her lips made a pathetic, loose little smile. "Maybe it'll leave us alone," LaVerne said.

"Did it go under the raft? Is it under us?" His short hair was still dripping a little. He thought he heard a noise for a moment-a rough noise, like a roll of canvas being pulled through a narrow window-but that might have only been nerves.ĭeke stood thoughtfully, head bent. leave us alone." Deke said, "Maybe pigs will-" "It's moving," Randy said. He had also succeeded in scaring himself. "Next month, yeah," Randy said, and shut his mouth with a snap. "Did it go under?" LaVerne said, and there was something oddly nonchalant about her tone, as if she were trying with all her might to be conversational, but she was screaming, too. We turned off Route 41, we came up eight miles of back road-" He thought he could see Deke's Camaro, but he wasn't sure. The trees behind it made a dark, bulking horizon line. He looked toward the shore and there was the beach, a ghostly white crescent that seemed to float. It just floated there, not coming any closer, but not going away, either. He looked away instead, back at the dark circle on the water. For a moment it seemed to be piling up there, thickening, and he had an alarming vision of it piling up enough to run onto the surface of the raft. He saw the thing nuzzling the side of the raft, flattening to a shape like half a pizza. "What's this shit, Pancho?" Randy looked-he looked very carefully. Esta historia se encuentra en el capítulo 11. Ya verás que Jehová Dios la quería mucho, y sus amigas también. Repasemos juntos la historia de Jefté y de su hija. La Biblia no dice cómo se llamaba, pero sí nos dice lo que le sucedió. "It's trying to get under the raft," Deke said grimly. HOY te voy a hablar de una joven muy especial.
