Chapter Eleven
Anxiously Ellie followed the path from the cabin up to the main house.
As instructed I trotted around the building to the left. As I rounded the first corner, I almost rushed headlong into a woman coming the other way. She was neither tall nor slight of build, yet she exuded a sense of determined power. She stepped to her left with lightening fast reactions, thus avoiding the imminent collision with me. The woman glanced once over at me, and then with obvious disdain she appeared to dismiss me from her thoughts; without saying a word she strode around me and disappeared out of my sight.
The encounter had happened so quickly that I had failed to get more than a fleeting look at the woman. I had noted the pinstriped suit that she wore, but the only other image I had besid
