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"Go on with your description"

"The beast looked like a dragon out of a child's nightmare I was petrified and couldn't say a word or screa over the bow Her attention was focused on telling me when to tack so ouldn't run onto the outer reef"

"Did it make a move toward you?" Pitt asked

"No It just stared at us and made no attempt to molest the boat as we sailed away from it"

"Deirdre never saw it"

"Not at that tihted it on two different occasions"

"How did your father react when you told him what you had seen?"

`He laughed and said, `So you've finally met Basil' "

"You said the serpent made itself knohen there was a death?"

"A family fable with sooon by the crew of a visiting whaler when Betsy Fletcher was buried, and later when reat-aunt Mildred and my mother died, both in violent circumstances"

"Coincidence or fate?"

Maeve shrugged "Who can say? The only thing 1 can be sure of is that my father murdered my mother"

"Like Grandfather Henry supposedly killed his sister Mildred"

She gave hie look "You know about that too"

Public knowledge"