Saving Fish from Drowning - Heal Burma

SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING
aspirin.... But then Harry thought again. Why wouldn’t someone
have stayed with Walter? Not all of them would have needed to go.
This did not make sense. “We must ask the police to do a search and
find them immediately.”
Heinrich spoke in a low, even voice: “Patience, my friend.”
“Patience, my foot!”
Heinrich raised his hand as both benediction and warning. “Do
you really want the military involved? They’re already asking why
your friends are missing yet you are here.”
“Good God, they can’t possibly think I’ve had anything to do with
this! That’s outrageous.”
“I won’t second-guess what they might think, outrageous or not.
In the meantime, the best thing you and I can do, my friend, is to act
calm, to not make any sort of fuss or demand. And now I’m going to
my office to get everyone’s passports from the safe. The police have
asked for them. I suggest you use this opportunity to view the beauty
of the lake. Let me handle this....”
It is amazing, isn’t it, how easily people hand over the reins to
those who presume power. Against their own intuition, they allow
themselves to trust those who they feel should not be trusted. I in­
clude myself as one who once did this. But then again, I was only a
child, whereas Harry was a grown man with a doctorate in behav­
ioral psychology. He dutifully went to the edge of the water. Gazing
out, he tried to imagine where Marlena and the others were. The
mist on the lake had long evaporated, yet he could see nothing but
the uncertain future.
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