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not many left now in their wild state.'
'They're so vulnerably friendly and tame. It's too easy to capture them
and put them into zoos.'
Faun nodded and a frown touched her brow.
'They're protected now, so their plight will not be so perilous.' She
spoke seriously, her eyes a little brooding and faintly sad. Clive, his
attention caught, was looking at her with an odd expression. He
seemed different, somehow not quite so arrogant and forbidding
either in his appearance or his manner.
However, he made no comment on what she had said, and soon she
was alone, watching his tall figure as he sauntered away towards the
shelter in which Malcolm was resting.
With a faint sigh Faun wandered along the river bank, musing on
several things as they flitted through her mind. She thought of her
parents and sister; they would be almost out of their minds with
worry, imagining all sorts of disasters that could have befallen the
occupants of the luxury aircraft which had gone out to Bali to pick up
her new employer. The firm would be unable to supply any
information to any of the relatives of the crew, and the staff
themselves must be going through a most anxious time. However,
search parties would be out and sooner or later they would be over
this jungle. They would be alerted by the fires which were already
prepared, with cans of petrol standing close. Tommy and Clive were
taking turns to stay up all night, in readiness to set the fires alight
should they hear an aircraft anywhere within the vicinity.
At length Faun turned, retracing her steps. She glanced up, to the little
plateau on a small rise where they had made their new camp. It was
drier than the area they had occupied at first. Shelters had been made
of bamboo framework with palm roofs, which meant that nothing
from the plane had had to be used. The parachute canopies were
draped over the trees and could be seen from the air; a huge sheet of
tinfoil had also been utilised in a similar manner, but this was spread
on the ground. It glittered in the sun and would be picked out at once
if an aircraft should happen to be flying overhead.
Clive had allocated tasks. Faun's was the cooking, which at first was
nothing more than warming up tinned food. However, Clive soon
decided they must supplement their rations with what they could find
around them. He sent Ingrid off to look for wild fruit; she went only
after much grumbling and protesting. After the incident of the leech
she refused to move far from the camp and in fact spent most of her
time in the aircraft, playing patience or reading the glossy magazines
which the airline always provided in quantity. She was bored; she
complained of everything, not least of which was the food. She
grumbled about not not being able to take a bath, whereupon Faun
pointed out that Tommy had fixed up a shower, using one of the large
water-containers which he attached to a rope. This rope was tied to a
branch of a tree and the area around it was screened by bamboo poles
draped with palm leaves.
'I'm not stripping off and getting under a bucket!' said Ingrid
disgustedly. 'For one thing, what about the insects?'
Faun shrugged her shoulders, but Malcolm, having recovered his
sense of humour if not his full health, was unable to resist saying,
'Yes, indeed. You might be stung where it's difficult to fix a dressing!'
Ingrid glowered at him, while Tommy laughed outright. Clive wasn't
present and so this mortifying experience suffered by his girl-friend
was not witnessed by him. Faun had a strong suspicion, though, that it
would not have occurred had Clive been there.
Becoming more and more irritated by Ingrid's complaints, Faun
decided to let the girl have the exclusive use of the aircraft, as it was
no fun lying there at night, being kept awake by Ingrid's pettish and
fault-finding remarks.
'We'll have to ask Clive before we can build a shelter,' Tommy said
when Faun asked for his assistance in constructing one of the palm
and bamboo wigwam-like structures such as the men now had. 'Once
we've got his permission we can begin.'
'Permission?' repeated Faun, and it was not until he noticed her
expression that Tommy knew he had made a slip.
'Well ...' He looked apologetically at her. 'He told you to use the
aircraft, and you can't change your plans without consulting the
leader. It's all part of the rules, Faun. You know it as well as I do.'
Her mouth went tight.
'I'll make the shelter myself--'
'You'll never be able to cut that bamboo. It's tough.'
'There's a chopper we took from the aircraft. You and Clive used it
with success.' She reflected for a moment on the way Clive had been
able to help with the shelters. He had managed to use his right hand
quite well and now he was scarcely affected by the plaster at all. He
was tough and no mistake. He had no intention of allowing a thing
like a Colles' fracture to put him out of action for long.
'You're supposed to use your hand,' had been his curt rejoinder when
Tommy had warned him to take care. 'It does it good.'
'You can't wield that chopper!' exclaimed Tommy, quite appalled at
the idea. But Faun merely let that pass, and went off to collect
suitable lengths of bamboo.
Inevitably Clive saw her and demanded to know what she was about.
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