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“Jail or the truth It’s your call and I’”

Angela picked at the frayed hem of her shorts

“Get up,” Hulan ordered “Put your hands behind your back” Angela looked at her in disbelief “Up! Now!”

Angela stretched out her legs and scooted to the edge of the bed She held out her wrists for a second, then just as suddenly dropped the”

It had been a bluff on Hulan’s part, but why had she needed to go so far?

“I told you before that an “About teeks before he died, he sent an e-e my life When I wrote back and asked him what it was, he said I had to coht he was just screwing around withti on a plane to China, even though I loved hi I could do just for fun He wrote back and told me to look at his website”

“The one you and Lily talked about the other night”

“Yes, and it was just as Lily described it He liked to post photos of places he’d been and things he’d seen, not just for me but for his other friends Here, let me show you”

Angela got up and ruh a pile on the floor until she found Brian’s laptop She attached an adapter to the coed it in, booted it up, and connected to the file he’d used to store the photos for his webpage He stood in the center of the screen on a muddy bank surrounded by dead shrubs He wore the typical outfit for foreigners in this place—khaki shorts, heavy boots, a T-shirt, and a cap His ar to the viewer— ta-da! He was bea

Who’d taken the photo? The question seeela “Maybe one of the peasants he ”

Hulan watched as Angela clicked on the icon and the screen filled with the iot a panorae Hulan recognized as the ragged beach and entrance to the cave where the All-Patriotic Society held its s

“These photos weren’t like others he’d posted,” Angela explained “Usually he’d put up a pretty landscape or a portrait of a family on whose property he’d camped But these are just infertile land”

“Are there any of the dig?”

“In a way” Angela clicked several ties of Site 518 flitted past “I would have expected photos of people he worked with, artifacts he’d found, or the configuration of the pits, butarea—just dirt”

“Hoas this going to change your life?”