Saving Fish from Drowning - Heal Burma

SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING
about the bridge being down. But he was relieved to have more time
to extricate them from calamity. He would wait a few more days,
hoping that the tourists would tire of their adventure and that the
tribe would realize the boy wasn’t their savior. In the meantime, he
made sure that Black Spot brought them plenty of provisions lest
they starve, tasty insects notwithstanding. He also berated Black
Spot for stealing his satellite phone. He told him it was senseless for
the tribe to have a phone in the jungle; you couldn’t get reception be­
low those trees. Black Spot replied that his people seemed helpless
without a phone, and they could order many things to happen when
they had one. He assured Heinrich he would pay for it soon.
Black Spot came three more times. Once it was to pick up food
supplies, including noodles, which the Younger White Brother said
he craved. On the second visit, he delivered the curious red plants,
which would indeed raise money for a new satellite phone. On the
third, he handed over the camcorder tape that would make the Lord’s
Army TV stars. He asked Heinrich to give this to Harry, who already
had a popular show that appeared all over the world. Heinrich had
watched the tape twice, trying to decide whether it would hurt or
help. Who knew for certain? He went into his office, closed the door,
and poured two jiggers of a very old port, one for himself and one
for the Nat who lived in his liquor cabinet. Several days and many
jiggers later, the Nat finally agreed not to make mischief.
WALTER RECOVERED his memory two days after he was found in
the pagoda, knocked unconscious by the corner of a loose brick. He
recalled exactly what had happened:
They had been on the dock, waiting for Rupert. The guests and
longboats were waiting to take them to their Christmas surprise, the
school on the other side of the lake, where a classroom of children
would sing carols. To find the troublesome boy, one of the boatmen
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