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“Well?” Reed with skepticism She was used to Sam’s sometimes premature excitement

“I’ve found, e Master padlock, circa 1970,” he replied, then hefted fro hat looks like an old gatepost” He dropped it back into the water and then straightened up with a groan

Remi smiled at him “My intrepid treasure hunter Well, it’s more than I’ve found”

Sam looked at his watch, a Timex Expedition he wore only on expeditions “Six o’clock,” he said “Shall we call it a day?”

Re a layer of goop, and gave hiht you’d never ask”

They gathered their packs and hiked the half rounded cypress stu up to his waist, while Rerowled to life and Sam climbed in

She turned the bow into the channel and throttled up The nearest town and their base of operations was Snow Hill, three miles up the Pocoly decent wine cellar and a crab bisque that had put Reht’s supper

They le of thecanopy Suddenly Saht

“Remi, slon”

She throttled back “What is it?”

He grabbed a pair of binoculars from his pack and raised theap in the foliage—another hidden inlet a the dozens they’d already seen The entrance was partially blocked by a tangle of branches piled up by the storm

“What do you see?” she asked

“Soht I saw a line in the foliagea curve or soet me over there?”

She turned the rudder and aimed the skiff at the ? Did you drink enough water today?”

He nodded, his attention fixed on the inlet “More than enough”