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“Maybe, but we can’t second-guess ourselves There are hundreds of people here Unless ant to leave and come back later, I vote we push on”

Remi nodded

Eyes fixed on the GPS screen, Sam walked south a hundred feet, then east for thirty, then stopped

“We’re standing on top of it”

Re “You’re sure?”

“There,” Sa beneath his feet They knelt down Faintly visible in the rock was a chiseled straight line, roughly eighteen inches long Soon they couldoff in different directions

“Must be what’s left of the foundation stones,” Remi said

They walked to what they guessed would have been the center of the te with the GPS, picked out a landmark on the other side of the lake, and they headed back down the hill At the bottom they crossed the road they’d driven in on and followed a path along the shore, past a stone block bistro fronted by a wooden ay, then onto a rock shelf that ran along the water to a sheer ledge Here they dropped down and followed a trail around a small cove to another flat area littered with boulders and patchy grass Above thele In the shade of the peaks, the terees

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bsp; “End of the line,” Sam said “Unless we’re supposed to climb”

“Maybe weback the e came”

“More likely two hundred years of erosion turned whatever ‘boas here into a saucer”

“Or we’re overthinking it and they were talking about the lake itself”

A gust of hipped Remi’s hair across her eyes and she brushed it away To Sa sound He snapped his head around, eyes scanning

“What’s wrong?” Remi asked