BIGFOOT VALLEY (Gene Martin Thrillers Book 2)

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He was always with a tall, slim, sophisticated man, almost certainly the one who had hired Dee. Gene Martin was traveling under a phony name— Gordon Tyler. That would depend on how he sized up the man. Ideally, Gene would have liked to have a heart-to-heart talk with Morris, bringing everything out into the open with him, but keeping his sophisticated looking companion in the dark.

Gene turned his back to the rail, leaning against it, and had another go at ogling the bikini-clad women in and around the pool. There were several shapely ones, but his eyes were quickly drawn to the small blonde. He had been enjoying watching her—in her bikini and earlier in casual deck clothes—and was looking forward to closer contact with her. Right now she was energetically swimming about, underwater about as much as with her head above the surface. His eyes came to rest on Hot Chocolate.

Her long black hair appeared to have been straightened into waves. The other stall had a picture of a Caucasian merman who looked suspiciously like Tom Cruise except for the tail. But her place of greatest honor was a bit strange and inharmonious. On this gigantic ocean liner, even though the figurehead was several times larger than life, it still looked—particularly from a distance—like a little gnarly stem of carved wood.

Actually she was made of metal, and, from a closer view, was magnificent as she leaned out over the water, her hair represented as streaming in the wind, her gigantic breasts and long nipples pointing the way into the wild blue yonder. The paintings of the Dark Mermaid were like the figurehead but had her in a variety of poses. In the one on the shower stall she was leaning back on her arms and smiling as though pleased and sure that all the mermen in the vicinity were more than willing to fertilize her eggs.

However, the entirely human one was wearing a bikini. As though she could feel this attention, she suddenly glanced directly at him. He gave her a smile and she returned it. Then she picked up her towel and made a show—Gene was sure of it—of drying herself sensually, spending too much time on her breasts. The lower triangle was hard pressed to cover her considerable mountain of love. She was like that all over: She slipped her feet into thongs, then, carrying her towel and a small blue-leather handbag, walked away from the pool and toward Gene.

Before reaching him she turned aside, but not without giving him another look—an inviting look, Gene was sure. This was distinctly verified a moment later when she glanced back over her shoulder and thrilled him with another smile. He quickly got himself into motion, following her. They passed by two couples coming their way, one of these in swim wear, and when this particular narrow length of deck was clear of anyone but the blonde and Gene, she suddenly turned off to the side into a space between two large tubular structures that Gene took to be part of the air conditioning system or maybe plumbing.

In a moment he had followed her into a fairly isolated little nook that had nothing in it except an empty potato-chip bag and a crushed pop can lying on its small area of deck. She stopped and turned to face him, so he came to a stop too, only four feet away from her. With the towel and purse hanging from her left arm, she used her right to pull the top string of her bikini, with practiced ease, and the two little triangles came free and dropped as though it was a magic trick.

She stood there letting him look at her for a moment. Then she kicked the pop can out of the way, leaned over, and spread the towel out on the deck. By the time she had gotten free of this little piece of cloth, revealing a touch of blonde pubic hair over shaved lips, he was out of his trunks—and just in time before they would have caught and hung up on his rapidly enlarging central anatomy.

In a quick moment he was down behind her, then was slipping smoothly into that delightful, hot, well lubricated place where he had been many times before. Male and female subdued moans of passion. Overwhelmingly intense pleasure quickly replaced by a satisfying sense of relief and fulfillment. In spite of the possibility of being discovered, Gene and Jessie lay side by side on the towel, letting strength return to their seemingly floating legs.

How Gene loved that face, so close to his now, finely featured but with full lips and an ever-so-slight hump to her nose. He always felt that the slightly convex nose gave her a hotter look, while the sky blue of her eyes held angelic connotations. They both got to their feet, grabbing up their swimwear at the same time. I want to keep as much as I can of you on me. Have you made any progress more than ogling the girls in the pool? In the meantime try to keep from masturbating. She laughed her tinkling way and quickly disappeared from his view around one of the big pipes.

Gene wiped dust off his one knee that had missed the towel and felt good about the terrific sex he and his wife had just had. Like Gene, Jessie was traveling under an assumed name. Hers was Cassie Brandon and she was playing the part of a spoiled, rich young woman out to have a good time. His own phony background, as Gordon Tyler , was that of a wealthy cattle-feed producer involved in animal nutrition.

He had chosen that because he knew something about it. Years ago, when he had been a very young man, he had been involved in farming and ranching and still retained a good deal of it in his not-so-fond memories. He and Jessie had decided that rather than ship aboard as a couple they would come separately as strangers to one another. This way if it turned out that there was danger involved and if one of them got into trouble, the other one might be able to come to the rescue. After about a minute he began to leave the nook, listening carefully for footsteps and not hearing any. That was a tempting idea for he found that he was beginning to be in serious need of bladder relief.

As he headed for his cabin the wind began picking up a bit. He saw Morris Kurdley and the tall, sophisticated looking man, Elton Slaydorn, climbing a flight of steps to a higher deck, their hair blowing about. They were both dressed in short-sleeved knitted shirts and dress pants. Morris Kurdley, the father of the girl, was of medium height but broad through the shoulders and chest, and Slaydorn was tall, slim, and moved as though all his bearings were well oiled. Slaydorn, as usual, was carrying his fancy walking stick without putting any weight on it.

Its lower half was shiny black and its upper half appeared to be lathed ivory but was likely a hard plastic, since real ivory was illegal. Gene decided to try following them at a distance. If he could innocently get close enough there was always a chance that he might overhear something of their conversation—something that might at least suggest whether or not Slaydorn was up to all the sinister stuff Aunt Verna was so worried about.

Up on Passenger Deck B-1, Gene found the two men standing in a storage area near the outer wall of the storage room proper, a place not for luggage, but for larger items that the passengers had bought at some port or other. The Dark Mermaid had not started its cruise from New York but from Panama City, and some of its earlier passengers had probably left a few centesimos and balboas in the classy stores of the Big Apple.

These bulky items would now be transported halfway around the world, and not free of charge. Outrageously wealthy himself, Gene Martin was, nevertheless, aghast at the way he saw other wealthy people spending their money. On the deck area that was a temporary extension to the storage room and a place for cataloging items before putting them away, were several pieces of furniture including what looked like bedroom sets, and there were also wicker chairs and floor lamps.

It had not been covered with anything other than a system of foam-padded ropes that snugged them into place against the wall. They looked fairly secure, yet would likely not to be there long before being moved into the storage room. Morris Kurdley and Elton Slaydorn came to a stop on the far side of the stack of furniture, as though what they were talking about was too important to allow any further concentration on the complicated act of walking.

At this point Gene could see only their heads and shoulders over top of a totem pole of stacked wicker chairs, and he felt confident that they had not yet caught sight of him. He also realized that if he moved only a little over to the left he would have the highest part of the furniture pile between him and them and would therefore be out of their line of vision.

So he stepped to the left and then noticed that although the furniture had been stacked against the storage room wall, there were considerable open spaces here and there. In the last few minutes the breeze had escalated into a salty wind and was having fun whistling about the many beautiful curves and crevasses of The Dark Mermaid.

This, combined with the way Kurdley and Slaydorn were speaking in hushed voices, apparently not wanting anyone to overhear them, made Gene dissatisfied with his inability to register their words clearly. Therefore the inviting spaces between furniture and wall quickly enticed Gene into getting down on his hands and knees; he worked his way silently into and under the stack. Although he could have crawled farther, he only went about halfway through, for at this point he found that he could eavesdrop effectively.

Gene could now see that the top part of the cane looked like a bone—a human bone, in fact. This one, making up the top half of the cane, looked exactly like an upper arm bone, the humerus. Well, it was probably made of plastic, thought Gene, but, even so, it seemed like an indication that Aunt Verna might be right. Who but a sleaze bag or an extroverted ghoul would want to walk around flashing a cane like that?

Well, maybe a medical doctor with a perverted sense of humerus. Gene almost chuckled aloud at his mental pun but quickly subdued the urge. The girl that played the part of Lori in the movies—what was her name? Dee is a young woman now. So, my good man, what do you say? There was silence for several seconds, except for the wind and the snap of a cigarette lighter being closed. Then came the smell of smoldering tobacco. But remember, the director is responsible to me.

Those are the costumes that were actually worn by the actors who played Zimtar, Zelda, and Lori. Fans are nutty that way. They want to get close to something touched by the stars. So, what say you? Does thirty-thousand per season sound good to you? There might even be a show going on at the Stroking Fin. They walked away then, leaving Gene to decide whether he should head forward or go into reverse to get out from behind the furniture. In any case, there was no time to lose because by now he needed to pee pretty bad.

In spite of having to crawl over a low hassock and around a floor-lamp post, then through under several leaning chairs, he would have made it out in half a minute, but the sound of approaching footsteps brought him to a sudden halt like a pointer dog finding partridges.

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Gene had a choice of peeing on the deck, if he could get his trunks down without bumping things and making noise, or he could exercise serious control and wait it out—or try to. He decided on the latter course, at least for the time being. He wondered how a decent person like himself could manage to get into this sort of thing. As a farm boy in North Dakota he had daydreamed about living a life of adventure—being some kind of action hero, no less.

This dream had been shared by his best friend, Wally Walters, the comic-book illustrator who was now living in the Congo and no doubt enjoying the jungle atmosphere. In their early twenties the two of them had managed to get into the stuff of their dreams up in Saskatchewan, Canada where Wally had gotten a job as an illustrator. The two of them together had investigated the bizarre doings of one Dr. Paul Morgan, and, with the help of some locals, had prevented this madman from infecting the genes of the whole human race with animal traits.

After that, money had come in by the carload, partly because of the best-selling book Gene had written about the case, and partly because some mysterious donor had sent him half a million dollars in an old cardboard box wrapped in brown paper and held together with electrical tape.

Now having the grease to smooth the road he had always wanted to travel, Gene had returned to Canada, this time into the great Rocky Mountain regions of Alberta and British Columbia. Here he was tickled pink to be involved in the rescue of a woman and her daughter from a type of animal that, until then, and in spite of the many sightings, had been thought of more as fantasy than as reality: At this point in his young life, Gene realized that he needed to do more than ramble about getting his ass in and out of a variety of slings.

He had invested some of his money in up-and-coming companies of various kinds and these all flourished. Soon worth eight-million, Gene felt the weight of responsibility. There were people in need the world over, and here he was with more money than he at first knew what to do with. Homeless children weighed extra heavily upon him, so he built an orphanage in Florida he had read about a particular need there , staffed it, set a good manager over it, and put the whole thing into motion.

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