The missing pages added some details about Morgan’s Maroon associates, mentioning Akim, who had sailed with him, and Njoni his son, and noted a date that had been in the future—in fact, after Morgan died. The assumption was that this future date was for a meeting. Other details showed what I assumed to be some type of code:III =III ^III 0Could this be some type of map code we had no context to unravel? If we could get a better bearing on the macro of where the stash might be located, maybe it could help us with the micro of details to locate it.This information calmed my concerns about Nanny—to the point that I said we deserved a moonlight swim on the private beach. “Don’t fall,” I said a few minutes later. “There are a dozen steps and they’re steep.” “And the stone is sharp,” Nanny said.The moon cast a brilliant glow on the private beach below, along with the white-capped waves crashing against it. I stepped from the stone landing onto the still warm sand, the champagne flutes in my left hand clinking against one another.
