The Darlington Rogue
By J. N. Sadler
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A young concrete worker meets two men in a tavern who share his desire to find the Darlington River's rogue branch. It appears only once a year for a few weeks when the moon is right. He meets a young, rich widow who shares the same interest in the random phenomenon and outfits the largest boat for their
J. N. Sadler
Janet Sadler is a resident of Havertown, Pennsylvania. She has published two volumes of poetry with her illustrations: Headwinds and Full Sail and has been published in many small literary magazines. Once member of the Mad Poets Society in Media, PA, and also the Overbrook Poets in Philadelphia, she reads her poetry at local venues. She was the former poetry director at Tyme Gallery in Havertown, PA and at Baldwin’s Book Barn in West Chester, PA. She has authored thirty flash fictions novels. Twenty-seven titles have been published through Xlibris and can be found at Xlibris.com, under J. N. Sadler Author’s email address: fairfieldltd@verizon.net
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The Darlington Rogue - J. N. Sadler
The Darlington Rogue
The Second Book in The Conch Conversion
Trilogy
J.N Sadler
Copyright © 2021 J.N Sadler.
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ISBN: 978-1-63795-431-7 (Hardcover Edition)
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Some characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
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Contents
Chapter 1: The Air Show
Chapter 2: A Bigger Boat
Chapter 3: Nara’s Place
Chapter 4: The Dream Team
Chapter 5: The Day of Departure
Chapter 6: Ready to Go
Chapter 7: The Entrance to the Rogue
Chapter 8: The Unfamiliar
Chapter 9: Conversation with Evo-Scientists
Chapter 10: Home
Chapter 1
The Air Show
E
xperimental aircraft took turns flying
over the air field where Buck Martin was the feature flyer. A large crowd had gathered. Necks craned to watch the stunts of the Piper Cubs and other antique models fly by. The air clown played balance games on the wings of the Bamboo Bomber and pretended to fall, only to climb back up in the wind, hanging on the tip of the wing by a few fingers.
It was announced that Buck was going to do some aero ballet with his Navy jet, after which would follow the famous Blue Angels, in formation. The Christen Eagle taxied and parked on the green grass field next to a fabric-covered Cessna whose wing-walker was 89 years old. Then there was Tom’s favorite plane, Boeing’s Navy Stearman, a double-wing, open-cockpit antique, retired from World War II and re-painted red and white, given the famous name, Red Baron. Most of them now were used for crop dusters and aerobatic stunts at shows such as this.
Buck was going to surprise the audience with his own dangerous stunts: loops, aileron rolls, barrel rolls, falling leaf and Immelman turn, ending in a breathtaking nose dive. It was saved as the last event. He would fly up and out from the trees and shock them all.
Tom, one of the enthusiastic fans, continued to watch the fly-by. The sky was diminished by the passing of the gigantic water-bomber, the rare Martin Mars flying boat, last of its kind. He walked up to Fifi
, the world’s only flying B-29 Super Fortress, sponsored by the Commemorative Air Force.
The afternoon sun was hot. He continued on to the water ice stand and got himself a mango cone. The last plane had parked far away at the end of the field. As the crowd mingled and drifted from plane to plane, getting autographs and pictures of the participating pilots, out of nowhere rose the Red Baron. Buck was going to perform his dangerous and novel stunts, never before tried. He set the plane on autopilot when it was at a safe altitude and shut off the engine. It went into a double hammerhead, which made it spiral speedily to the ground. He misjudged his distance, and when he tried to pull up the stick, he couldn’t. It was old. It jammed as he plummeted at a hellish pace to the middle of the field. Smoke poured from the engine, which roared loudly until the explosion sounded when it hit the ground. Parts flew in all directions, and smoke billowed around the broken frame of the plane. The pilot’s flaming, dismembered body was thrown out of the cockpit before its collision with the earth. The crowd was in awe. People ran towards the disaster. Tom ran as fast as he could to help, but it was obvious that the pilot could not have survived. He volunteered to assist the medics and the police. Fire trucks roared to the scene, sirens blaring, their hoses extinguishing the flames.
Thomas J. Latimer leaned against a tree on the muddy bank of the Darlington Stream’s wide end. Kinsley and Isaacs had told him of their findings from their exploratory run at the delta, days ago. He mulled their facts over in his mind as he stared into the clear, bubbling water as it traveled over round, dark stones. The babbling noise was like a lullaby. There was peace in the valley, and love in his heart. He was the youngest of the three adventurers that devised an independent study of this river and its secrets. Scientific papers had been filed indicating that there was an unseasonal spurt of random activity that caused a visible but difficult route to travel into the interior, where no one had been before. He wondered how it could be possible that no one had ever witnessed the flow of this mysterious vein of river water when it mutinied its course and rebelliously sped into an unknown wilderness.
Jason Kinsley and Ivan Isaacs had actually seen it and started to follow it. All of the notes said so. All of the notes were in great detail, until the water forced them to pay attention on how to escape the destiny that lay ahead. They walked through a tangled wall of vines. They wrote that they could see ahead through the foliage, and that the river was still running strong on the other side of the barrier. The passage said, It appears as though the small rivulet we travel opens out to an enormous lake or gathering place for possibly another river to join this segment of the Darlington.
Tom remembered well why he didn’t go with them. He was lovesick over his older woman. She was forty. He was twenty-three, but mature for his age, although emotionally, he was still a baby.
His colleagues were not in favor of his romantic decision to stay with her and help her get settled after the death of her husband. He was the famous Navy pilot, Buck Martin, killed in the crash at the air show. He met her the day her husband was pronounced dead…the day of the show itself. He was one of the volunteers who located the body or parts of it in the flaming wreckage. She had not attended the show. He and