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    The Thing that Walked in the Rain
    The Thing that Walked in the Rain
    The Thing that Walked in the Rain
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    The Thing that Walked in the Rain

    By Otis Adelbert Kline

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    IT all comes back to me as I take up my pen—a horrid shriek of pain and terror from high in the air, an enormous thing, taller than a tree, silhouetted against a background of lightning-illuminated storm clouds, like some gigantic tumble-weed, striding over the jungle, walking on its branches. And weaving high above the tree tops in the grip of those branches, a limp and helpless human being. Again I feel a great, green snaky think strike me—knock me down, A band of stinging, burning agony, encircles my body. I hammer it ineffectually with my empty gun. Once more I see Anita, hopeless terror in her eyes, a green arm around her slender waist, dragged away with incredible swiftness. But I must begin at the beginning.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJovian Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2016
    ISBN9781537811291
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      The Thing that Walked in the Rain - Otis Adelbert Kline

      THE THING THAT WALKED IN THE RAIN

      ..................

      Otis Adelbert Kline

      JOVIAN PRESS

      Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review or connect with the author.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by Otis Adelbert Kline

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      FOREWORD

      I. — THE MOUNTAIN OF MYSTERY

      II. — THE DIARY

      III. — THE THING THAT WALKED IN THE RAIN

      IV. — IN THE POWER OF THE ADEPT

      V. — THE SACRIFICE

      VI. — THE LAST SACRIFICE

      FOREWORD

      ..................

      IT ALL COMES BACK TO me as I take up my pen—a horrid shriek of pain and terror from high in the air, an enormous thing, taller than a tree, silhouetted against a background of lightning-illuminated storm clouds, like some gigantic tumble-weed, striding over the jungle, walking on its branches. And weaving high above the tree tops in the grip of those branches, a limp and helpless human being.

      Again I feel a great, green snaky think strike me—knock me down, A band of stinging, burning agony, encircles my body. I hammer it ineffectually with my empty gun.

      Once more I see Anita, hopeless terror in her eyes, a green arm around her slender waist, dragged away with incredible swiftness.

      But I must begin at the beginning.

      I. — THE MOUNTAIN OF MYSTERY

      ..................

      CERRO VERDINEGRO IS ONLY ONE of the lesser volcanic peaks that clutter tip the Nicaraguan landscape in such generous numbers. But to the members of our party, trudging doggedly toward it through the dense tropical jungle, it had an importance out of all proportion to its diminutive size.

      Pedro Ortiz, our guide, a swarthy mestizo with a thin, carefully trained black moustache, an admirable tenor voice and a penchant for flamboyant raiment, usually avoided speaking its name, when he had occasion to refer to our destination, but merely mentioned it as that mountain, or that place. When its name was spoken in his presence he invariably crossed himself piously with a fervent: Maria Madre preserve us!

      The two Misskito Indians whose keen machetes were carving the way for us, and the eighteen others who trudged behind in single, file, bearing our supplies, had grown more fearful day by day as we drew nearer our destination, so we were kept in constant trepidation lest they bolt and leave us stranded.

      Tall, gaunt, bespectacled and bewhiskered, Professor Charles Mabrey, explorer and naturalist, had undertaken the leadership of the expedition for the purpose of clearing up the mystery surrounding the strange disappearance of his friend and colleague, Dr. Fernando de Orellana. And he made it plain that he did not, for one moment, countenance the weird, incredible story which linked that disappearance with the traditional mystery of the extinct volcano. It was his frank and unalterable opinion that the doctor had been murdered by the natives, and that they had invented the outré story of a man-eating monster inhabiting the crater lake purely to shield themselves from punishment. Although I had called his attention to the fact that as soon as the doctor had disappeared the natives had sent a runner to Managua to announce the fact, and that it did not seem likely they would do such a thing, if they had killed him, his only retort was that it was obvious I

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