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He went into his study and dug through his file cabinets, returning with a brown envelope He opened the envelope and pulled out a stack of five-by-seven photos He fanned the photos like a deck of cards, picking out one and handing it to Lee

“This is the facade of the temple as seen from a canal,” he explained “There’s a hollow space under the temple’s floor that seems to have been sos on the interior”

Lee stared at the photo for a moment, then passed it over to Austin, who studied the bell shapes in it and then looked up

“Jellyfish?” he asked

“It appears to be,” Whittles said “Not sure why they decorated the wall of a temple with those creatures But, as I said, there’s a pool dedicated to the sacred eel, so why not one to jellyfish?”

“Why not indeed?” Lee said, her dark eyes sparkling with excitement

“I’d like to see this place in person,” Austin said “Can you tell us where it is?”

“I can show you exactly, but I hope you brought your bathing suit The platforot knocked around in an earthquake years ago and sank into the canal Not too deep Maybe twelve feet or so”

Austin looked at Lee

“What’s your pleasure, ma’am? Head off to our ship or check out Nan Madol?”

“I think the answer to that question is obvious,” she said

He wasn’t surprised by her reply, given what he had seen of her determination

Austin asked to borrow a local telephone book and within ed to rent a boat and some scuba equipment Whittles marked the temple’s location on a tourist ood-byes, then went back out to the waiting Pontiac station wagon As the taxi headed toward the harbor, the Chevy Silverado pulled away froths behind

CHAPTER 35

DR LYSANDER CODMAN GREETED THE TROUTS IN THE LOBBY of a building that overlooked the grassy square off Longwood Avenue where Harvard Medical School was part of a caious such institutions in the country The professor was a tall, loose-boned -toothed face that seemed to raise the possibility that some of the old Yankee families had bred with horses