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No Country for the Tide
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Halloran read until he found a folded map slipped between the pages. It didn't mark treasure. It marked a door, carved into the island's only hill, sealed with iron and salt. Below it the dead man had written: "Whatever you do, do not open the door. I did." Halloran's hands went cold.
Halloran closed the notebook and made his choice. He would dig up the box for proof, but he would never touch the door. He rowed to the flats, found the church, and recovered the ledger of names. Then he rowed straight back, the hill and its sealed door untouched behind him, exactly as the dead man had begged.
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